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Friday, July 02, 2004

Apple Must Make Strong Case for Xserve G5 Adoption

MacNewsWorld: "Apple's Xserve G5 is a powerful machine -- just not in ways that are easy to get across to the IT market. It is not a general-purpose computing barn burner. In business-style integer and floating-point tests, a 2-GHz Xserve G5 comes in at about half the calculating power of a 2.2-GHz Opteron running in pure 64-bit mode. The G5's memory performance is excellent, but it degrades in a linear fashion under load, whereas Opteron's memory performance degrades more slowly. Opteron is cheaper, faster in common computation, and more consistent in terms of how fast it accesses memory. In light of these facts, it's hard to make a traditional IT case for Xserve G5. IT departments generally base their PC server purchasing decisions on criteria that reflect the strengths of the x86 architecture: the highest clock speed, the largest CPU cache, and the maximum amount of memory they can afford. With Xeon and Opteron, a system is the same thing as a computer. If that's your viewpoint, nothing about Xserve G5 quickens your heartbeat."

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