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Xserve with Quad 64-bit Xeon



Along with the new Mac Pro Apple introduced some swanky new Xserves that have me drooling. Scheduled to be available in October these things sport 2 Dual-Core Intel Xeon 5100 processors (up to 3 Ghz), up to 32 Gigs of ECC FB-DIMM memory, 1.33GHz frontside bus per processor, 4MB shared L2 cache per processor, and two eight-lane PCI Express expansion slots. These things can also have up to 2.25 TB of onboard storage. They also have redundant power supplies (that was the sound of many sys admins rejoicing).

The Xserve also boasts having the first Intel ready version of Tiger server (you get an unlimited client version with an Xserve).

All of this for a starting price of $2,999.