On Dec 23, 2005, at 6:24 PM, email@hidden wrote:
Xserve HP Proliant DL145
1RU form factor 1RU form factor
dual 2.3ghz G5 Dual 2.2ghz Opteron (faster available)
1gig RAM 1gig RAM
1 x 80gig SATA 1 x 80gig SATA
pci video card integrated video card
dual gigabit ether dual gigabit ether
DVD/CD-RW drive DVD-ROM drive
$4099 $2317
http://h71016.www7.hp.com/dstore/MiddleFrame.asp?
page=config&ProductLineId=431&FamilyId=2245&BaseID=16754&jumpid=ex_r2
910_pricegrabbersmb/servers
http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/
71601/wo/5i63dRuEJIRq2ZnapD9GVwUgHtA/2.?p=0
Prices are list prices from HP and Apple online stores. The HP
prices are
often discounted if you buy from a VAR and Apple prices are also
discounted
if you negotiate a company discount with Apple.
That's an $1800 difference PER SERVER just for the hardware. It's my
understanding (I'm sure I'll be corrected if I'm wrong), that you
need
to spend another $999 per server for the unlimited users OSX license
to use it for a big honkin' streaming server.
No. The only thing limited about the Mac OS X Server 10-client is
concurrent file sharing users ONLY. Everything else is completely
unlimited. (The HP also doesn't include an OS, which may not be an
issue, but it's still a point of information.)
Also, a dual 2.3 GHz Xserve G5 configured as above is $3249 ($2724
education and government) - that would be an Xserve Cluster Node,
which is all you need to meet the above specifications.
I agree that for your task, some other server may be a better
value. But in some instances, the G5 is still a better value than
the alternatives:
http://www.bayarea.net/~kins/AboutMe/CPUs.html
- Dave
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