Why all this hubbub over the Xserver??? (Score 2, Interesting)

Hmmm, when Alpha Processor Inc. (API Networks) introduced the 1U dual-833Mhz EV6x Alpha CS20 over a year ago, I saw no special Slashdot story.

Granted, it was an expensive server ($8000US+)but did run Linux and NetBSD admirably.

Compaq introduced a 1U AlphaServer DS10L over TWO years ago and no Slashdot story on this either.

Slashdotters would complain that the Alpha-based servers are far too expensive so let's look to the low-end.

Sun introduced its sub-$1000US 1U Sun Fire V100 and Netra X1 servers and yet I never did see a drooling Slashdot story on either of these.

Not to mention that third-party integrators have had 1U dual Intel/AMD rackmounts for over a year as well. Nope, no major Slashdot story on the introduction of these either...

Apple comes late into the game with a non-ECC "Server" (that more closely resembles a desktop G4 stuffed into a 1U enclosure) that runs an unproven OS X (yes, unproven compared to Tru64/Digital UNIX, Solaris and even Linux/Net/FreeBSD) and Slashdotters are ecstatic.

Boy, that Kool-Aid must have been awfully refreshing.

~PA