Xserve

Xserve G4

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Overview

After years of repackaging off-the-shelf Macs for use as servers, Apple has introduced Xserve as their second attack on the server market - and the industry's first 1U dual processor RISC server.

Xserve supports up to 480 GB of internal storage, one or two 1 GHz G4 CPUs, dual gigabit ethernet, RAID, hot swappable drives, and remote management while running Mac OS X Server.

For those who want to use Xserve as a workstation, Apple offers the high performance ATI Radeon 8500 4x AGP video card and all the G4 power they're used to.

Xserve includes an unlimited user license for Mac OS X Server.

Details

introduced 2002.05.14 at $2,999/1 CPU, $3,999/2 CPU; replace by 1.33 GHz model 2003.02.10
requires Mac OS X Server v10.1 or later
CPU: single or dual 1 GHz PowerPC 7455
bus: 133 MHz
system performance: unknown
RAM: 256 MB standard (512 MB in dual processor model), expandable to 2 GB using PC2100 DDR SDRAM in 4 DIMM slots
VRAM: 32 MB
Video: ATI 66 MHz PCI graphics card (Radeon 8500 AGP 4x optional)
L2 cache: 256 KB on-chip L2 cache
L3 cache: 2 MB per processor offers 4 GB/sec. throughput
hard drive: 60/120 GB 7200 RPM, 4 drive bays, UltraATA/100
CD-ROM: 24x
2 full-length 64-bit/66 MHz PCI slots
1 half-length combination PCI/4x AGP slot
three 400 Mbps FireWire ports (two on back, one on front)
two 12 Mbps USB ports
dual 10/100/1000Base-T ethernet
size (HxWxD): 1.73" x 19" x 28"
weight: 26.0 lbs. (11.8 kg)
PRAM battery: 3.6V half-AA
upgrade path: none yet

Accelerators & Upgrades

none yet

Online Resources

Best online Xserve deals.
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Cautions

Note that some vendors are substituting PC2700 RAM for PC2100 modules. Although PC2100 Macs can work with PC2700 RAM, you can't use both types of RAM in the same machine. All installed RAM must be the same type, whether PC2100 or PC2700.

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