Very cool. Now if I can just come up with a sufficiently processor-intensive task to warrant this little acquisition

Wow imagine how great my RC5 key-rate would be with even that little short nubby rack on wheels!!! If G5 cores ever come out anyway.

You can ride it!

Quote: Originally posted by Thinine: You can ride it! how much processor power does it take to move a rack? Or is that kind of power measured in CFM out the…

was anyone here at the show? If you were .. how loud are these things?

The 90 nm G5 PPC 970 2.0 still has 512 KB of L2 cache. I wonder if an upgrade to 1 MB is in the works this year.

G4 Xserves were loud. As for the size... remember that while it's only 1U high, the footprint is HUGE. Its total volume is not likely very much less than a standard G5. tooki

I think now is the perfect time to introduce an iServer consumer level server based on like a single 700MHz G4, 3 or 4 HD bays, slot load DVD ROM, one pci slot, built in dual ether…

Quote: Originally posted by tooki: G4 Xserves were loud. As for the size... remember that while it's only 1U high, the footprint is HUGE. Its total volume is not likely…

G5 Xserve is impressive, G5 powerbook is going to take some serious doing!!

I heard that Apple is letting VTech replace their G5 Towers with XServe Cluster Nodes.

Quote: Originally posted by Dr Reducto: I heard that Apple is letting VTech replace their G5 Towers with XServe Cluster Nodes. That seems very unlikely for many re…

Quote: That seems very unlikely for many reasons, like the work it takes to set up that many computer, and what is apple going to do with 1100 used powermac G5's? thats …

Quote: Originally posted by Dr Reducto: I heard that Apple is letting VTech replace their G5 Towers with XServe Cluster Nodes. Sez who?

What is ECC anyway?

Error Correcting Circuitry right? So the RAM knows if it made a mistake. And if someone else wants to do better, be my guest :-)

Here's my layman's understanding: Error checking and correcting (ECC) memory is used when data integrity is paramount. For those of us doing word processing or Photoshop, a rare m…

right on!

isn't ecc slower then since it has to check everything?

Quote: Originally posted by l008com: That seems very unlikely for many reasons, like the work it takes to set up that many computer, and what is apple going to do with 1…

Quote: Originally posted by Socially Awkward Solo: isn't ecc slower then since it has to check everything? I'm not sure if there is a speed loss, but if there is, it…

Yes, it is a very small (if any at all, really) speed loss. The speed loss is worth it, when you NEED the error checking, because otherwise you have to devote processor time to er…

Pix!

Can I use a Xserver as a regular Panther computer? To run audio applications and stuff? Can I hook up a monitor, keyboard, FW stuff... And what's the difference btw the cluster and…