Garage sale-ing for a Mac supercomputer

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We may never know the real reason of garage sale.

ZDNet assumed that it MAY HAPPEN because ?last month Apple announced a G5 version of Xserve, ? which take up less space and consume less power than the Power Macs.?

Logically it does not make sense to dissemble the fastest (as they claimed) supercomputer because of some space and power. Reasons:

1. If speed was the main point of supercomputer ? then Xserve won?t increase that speed.
2. It doesn?t make sense to do it now because Apple promised to reach 3 Ghz barrier this summer.
3. If space would be the main concern of the university ? they would never build this system in the first place.
4. Energy savings? It?s hard to believe that there is a big difference in power consumption between two Dual G5 machines (normally, it should not be). If there is the difference ? there is something wrong with the design of all G5 desktops.
5. Is the university too rich to spend extra money to buy x-amount of G5 Xserve and lose money on garage sale that won?t even make their supercomputer any faster?
6. The university did not comment why they made their decision. The most likely reason of their silence is they are not happy with G5.

Thus, logically the above points mean that the main reason of garage sale is the low performance of G5.

Can somebody explain why 512 MB ECC SDRAM costs $250 (G5 Xserve) and 512 MB DDR SDRAM also costs $250 (Dual G5)? Can we call it as an example of Apple?s great business model (money before common sense)?

Posted by: Vily Clay   Posted on: 02/13/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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