We can say with certain confidence that Apple will announce the G5 Xserve at MWSF 04. The system will feature all the G5 architectural goodness, but it appears that it will be in a 3U form factor. The 1U simply was not doable with the type of cooling requirements brought on by the PowerPC 970 processor. There is more information coming in, and I will update the site as I get new data.
if Apple doesn't release a 1U unit of some kind i will be livid. anyone i know who is interested in Xserve - needs it to be 1U for cost purposes.
i really hope this is wrong. cause this would be a huge drag . and i don't see a 3U unit selling nearly as well as a 1U.
I do hope that Apple doesn't abandon the 1U market. It's completely possible to build such a machine with todays chips, but I'm worried that Apple will be concerned about the noise the unit develops. This may lead them to dismiss the form factor, even though that is the hottest part of the market
On the otherhand I would not be completely opposed to 3U iether if they resultant machine Is truely something ot crow about. That is if the delievered a low cost machine with 4 to 6 processors in a 3U case then the equation may change a bit. A lot of things come into play, so it is hard to say if Apple would get the 3U unit right. By right I mean a system that would offer better peformance than three 1U machines working together. The 3U unit of course would have to be delivered at a lower cost than the three 1U units.
I'm trying to keep an open mind with respect to what Apple could release. There is nothing to keep them from releaseing both a 1U and a 3U unit. In fact a good argument may be made that they should do just that. There is also the wild card of the 750VX (or what ever it is called these days), that is a 32 bit implementation. A quite 32 bit machine that could double present performance of the 1U machine would be recieved very well by some markets. A 32 bit machine would be short lived though as the whole market will move to 64 bit rather quickly - possibly faster that Apple and some of the PC manufactures may suspect.
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We can say with certain confidence that Apple will announce the G5 Xserve at MWSF 04. The system will feature all the G5 architectural goodness, but it appears that it will be in a 3U form factor. The 1U simply was not doable with the type of cooling requirements brought on by the PowerPC 970 processor. There is more information coming in, and I will update the site as I get new data.
if Apple doesn't release a 1U unit of some kind i will be livid. anyone i know who is interested in Xserve - needs it to be 1U for cost purposes.
i really hope this is wrong. cause this would be a huge drag . and i don't see a 3U unit selling nearly as well as a 1U.
a 1U unit is an Xserve.
a 3U unit is a tower with a chasis mount.
I do hope that Apple doesn't abandon the 1U market. It's completely possible to build such a machine with todays chips, but I'm worried that Apple will be concerned about the noise the unit develops. This may lead them to dismiss the form factor, even though that is the hottest part of the market
On the otherhand I would not be completely opposed to 3U iether if they resultant machine Is truely something ot crow about. That is if the delievered a low cost machine with 4 to 6 processors in a 3U case then the equation may change a bit. A lot of things come into play, so it is hard to say if Apple would get the 3U unit right. By right I mean a system that would offer better peformance than three 1U machines working together. The 3U unit of course would have to be delivered at a lower cost than the three 1U units.
I'm trying to keep an open mind with respect to what Apple could release. There is nothing to keep them from releaseing both a 1U and a 3U unit. In fact a good argument may be made that they should do just that. There is also the wild card of the 750VX (or what ever it is called these days), that is a 32 bit implementation. A quite 32 bit machine that could double present performance of the 1U machine would be recieved very well by some markets. A 32 bit machine would be short lived though as the whole market will move to 64 bit rather quickly - possibly faster that Apple and some of the PC manufactures may suspect.
Time will Tell
Dave
Originally posted by bluesigns
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if Apple doesn't release a 1U unit of some kind i will be livid. anyone i know who is interested in Xserve - needs it to be 1U for cost purposes.
i really hope this is wrong. cause this would be a huge drag . and i don't see a 3U unit selling nearly as well as a 1U.
a 1U unit is an Xserve.
a 3U unit is a tower with a chasis mount.