New Xserve Announced Yesterday

Until yesterday when Apple announced a new Xserve I had both forgot Apple made the Xserve and that they’re still being produced.

But, these new Xserves do have amazing specs:

• 1 or 2 2.26GHz+ Nahalem processors (the newest generation, also in the Mac Pro)

with:

• 8 MB L3 cache per processor
• tri-channel memory controller (on-die)
• Hyper-threading te4chnology (that means up-to 16 virtual cores!!!!!!)
• ‘Turbo Boost’ technology which dynamically powers off other cores when not in use to boost clock speeds of other cores
• Full 64-bit support
• SSE4 SIMD
• Support for more effecient/faster virtualization technologies
• Up-to 32GB of 1066MHz DDR3 ECC memory *as of Mac OS X Server 10.5, hardware is capable of more
• Up-to 3 TB of hot-pluggable storage
• Build-to-order with 128GB solid state drives as an option
• 2 PCI-e 2.0 ports
• 2 independent Gigabit networking ports
• 2 750 watt power supplies (for redundancy)
• Depending on model-Up to Quad-channel fiber channel 4GB connection(s)
• …and of course, this is rack-mountable

wow…
Starting at $3499 CAD