[Bioclusters] sorry -- I took the G5 xserve pics down since they may not be production

[Jeremy Maris]

They looked nice though :-)

Jeremy
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> 
> Totally my fault. Apologies for posting pics and then yanking them a few 
> minutes later.
> 
> There was some confusion about what sort of G5 Xserve's we have -- it 
> turns out that we may not actually have recieved the official shipping 
> versions of the xserve g5's.
> 
> We like Apple. In the interest of accuracy I don't want to put up 
> pictures of non-production seed hardware. I'll put up photos and a new 
> gallery once we get the official hardware inhouse.
> 
> Regards,
> Chris
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> 
> Chris Dagdigian wrote:
> 
> > 
> > What can I say? I'm an infrastructure geek at heart.
> > 
> > Anyway -- we finally got our hands on some 1U Apple G5 Xserve hardware. 
> > One of the standard Xserve G5 units plus one of the special "compute 
> > node" configurations that sacrifices 2x drive bays and the optical drive 
> > to bring the hardware price down lower.
> > 
> > I pulled them out of our lab  along with the pair of G5 towers and took 
> > some side by side pictures. Once I saw how huge the CPU/heatsink combo 
> > is in the tower chassis I was amazed that Apple was even able to 
> > consider making a 1U variant.
> > 
> > Picture gallery URL is here:
> > 
> > http://bioteam.net/gallery/G5xserve
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Chris
> > 
> 
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