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timortis
04-14-2002, 07:33 PM
<a href="http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/products/gvs9000/" target="_blank">http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/products/gvs9000/</a>
dhunter
04-14-2002, 07:42 PM
[quote]Originally posted by timortis:
<strong><a href="http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/products/gvs9000/" target="_blank">http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/products/gvs9000/</a></strong><hr></blockquote>

Hmmm.... could prove very interesting ... Maybe Apple should buy the company.
Spart
04-14-2002, 08:08 PM
I think its just the guts of a dual gig with some other goodies and YDL preinstalled...

Isn't it against FCC regulations to do something like that?
Eskimo
04-14-2002, 08:14 PM
[quote]Originally posted by timortis:
<strong><a href="http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/products/gvs9000/" target="_blank">http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/products/gvs9000/</a></strong><hr></blockquote>

I know they've been doing this for a little while, offering PowerMac G4 equivalent in a rackspace format. I hadn't looked recently so I didn't know they were up to dual 1GHz.

This isn't really future hardware related though. So I'm moving this to Current hardware.
timortis
04-14-2002, 08:32 PM
I think you're missing something. What they were doing before was Linux only hardware built on non-Apple PPC motherboards.

This hardware runs OS X. It's built by Apple!

At first I thought they must just be buying off-the-shelf Apple hardware and sticking the guts into thr rackmount cases, but a close inspection of the specs reveals that's not the case.

They come with only 1 PCI slot and it's a 64/66 slot unlike the 64/33 PCI slots that come with the PowerMacs. They also only come with 2 DIMM slots, not 3.

This means they have an agreement with Apple where Apple builds special rack-mount PowerMac internals for them. I think that's one interesting bit of news that relates to Apple's future hardware plans.
AirSluf
04-14-2002, 11:30 PM
FotNS
04-14-2002, 11:47 PM
Read the FAQ. It states that this is an Apple motherboard, the same that comes with the Power Mac. It comes with a right angle PCI adapter that covers up the other PCI slots. As for the RAM, all they are saying is that it comes with 1GB RAM in 2 modules, but that does not mean the 3rd slot is not there.
Ptrash
04-16-2002, 07:43 PM
One of these was on sale on Ebay-a regular poster to xlr8yourmac.

Here's the link: <a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2016389451" target="_blank">http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2016389451</a>

Looks like it didn't sell.

The xlr8yourmac link: <a href="http://bbs.xlr8yourmac.com/ubb/Forum22/HTML/000978.html" target="_blank">http://bbs.xlr8yourmac.com/ubb/Forum22/HTML/000978.html</a>