We have posted three photo galleries from this mornings' introduction of the Xserve, Apple's new dedicated server platform: one, two, and three.
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Apple has just entered into a new ballgame. I could see Apple rendering farms, full racks in universities, big companies Xserve and liking it thus pushing Macs on their desks and PCs out the window.
See how the reality distortion field works: Let's look a this presentation slide: http://www4.macnn.com/macnn/events/xserve/DSC00101-pp.JPG
Jobs here compares the Mac box with no support (950$ extra) to the Dell box, which already includes support. Apple-like support is only 100$ extra. If you don't believe me, go to both webstores and look it up for yourself.
So, comparable prices would be:
Apple Xserve:
$3999 + $950 = $4949
Dell PowerEdge 1650
$4277 + $100 = $4377
The Mac has other advantages, but the presented numbers are false.
The difference comes in when you start adding up the cost of licensing. Dell may look good out the door, but then their partner in crime, M$, is hiding in the alley to mug you as you pass.
I' m a proud Texan. I live in plano (home of the first apple store in texas!) And have been a proud mac user since of 8/26/01. My 15th birthday.
And before that i had been a devote windows user (i'm mot proud of that.) Dell was the reason i switched to the Mac side (the light side) because our family had one computer, a DELL.
Two hours out of the box the hard drive was toast (it was not our fault.) we called dell (after 1 hour on hold.) and they gsent some one out.
And it keep doing this every year.
Over a the two year period that we have had the Dell. Dell haas had to send us the following replacement parts:
5 hard drives
1 ATA cable
1 Motherboard (Logic board)
1 Power supply.
And they all were refurbised!
The problem was that we had a defective power suppply, and it was zapping EVERY HARD DRIVE EVER PUT INTO THAT COMPUTER.
I was feed up, I wanted a alternitive, I conviced my parents to let me get a mac, I got a Mac, The computer that will replace the Dell will be a Mac.
Texans are mac users.
And a Texan Mac user are the most hard core of them all.
All Mac users must rid there Macs of microsoft.
End of story.
there are Mac users in texas, I'm trying to convert all windows users to the mac side, we must try harder.
The first thing I noticed with the majority of PC company warranties (NEC, Toshiba, Dell, etc.) is that when they say "replacement" they don't mean you get a brand new computer to replace the brand new computer you just bought. Oh no, you get refurbished service parts or computers as your replacement under their warranty. Anyone else notice that if/when your Mac goes in for repair you get NEW replacement parts, or, on occasion, just a brand new computer taboot?
As for the xServe, PPPS forgot that Apple includes a FREE unlimited license version of MacOS X Server. After you buy your Dell you have to pay Microsoft thousands of dollars for NT Enterprise edition.
On a more down-to-earth note, I honestly don't think Apple will storm into the server market. Two words: Job Security. Do you guys have any idea how many "IT Professionals" would be out of the job if Apple took over the server/client market? You'd need maybe 3 guys to run the entire business as appose to 10 or 15 running a Windows based network. Thousands of people would lose their jobs, literally.
I agree with the above thread-comments, and emphatically encourage wide
distribution of the following URLs including print-out bulletin-board
"guerilla" postings in school halls and company IT depts.: MACvsPC-intro
http://homepage.mac.com/mac_vs_pc/Intro.html and its 451-kb PDF download (view with Adobe Acrobat; you might already have the plugin in your
browser) http://homepage.mac.com/mac_vs_pc/MACvsPCCombined.pdf - 50 pages of evidence, polls, studies, research refuting every excuse you've ever
heard to buy Windoze with its hack-inviting Interference Exploiter browser
from the MS monopoly... "Don't be another sucker on the octopus'
tentacles!"
The above URLs were originally posted on MacNN months ago; author John
Droz has done a magnificent service for Apple - let's distribute the
truth!
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