>The there was the bumblefuck who
>name-dropped Windows and Unix and
>cited 10 years of development
>experience, then said with OSX
>he never had a crash,
>does everything with his new
>Mac, etc. The biggest
>lie to top them all
>off was that he was
>an "IT Director". Not
>at a company worth a
>damn, that is for certain.
> At least not any
>more if this clueless fuck
>really IS an IT Director.
Yeah I remember reading that one. If he was an IT director at a *real* company he would hold a LOT of misgivings and bad memories of trying to get Apple's old OS working on any Windows network, with such winning protocols as "Appleshare" and Apple's fantastic idea of using two "forks" for each filetype. After that experience he wouldn't touch a Mac to save his life.
The dumbfuck in his obvious ignorance would probably be clueless enough to suggest buying one of those rackmount XServes for $3000, with specs inferior to the cased Macs that Apple sells now, with exception to the dual gigabit ethernet cards that consequently will never reach their potential with the crummy 256 megs of RAM or the--get this--60gig *ATA-100* drives. ATA-100 on a $3000 server? What the hell? but even more bizarre than that is the fact that this rack-mount server has a *video card*, and not only that, it is a *required* component of the XServe. Here's the quote from the "feature list":
"- VGA graphics card that supports headless booting and enables easy connectivity to industry standard cross-platform devices"
"Cross-platform devices"? Like what? A CRT monitor? Big fucking whoop!
What self-respecting rack-mount computer has a
video card? The very fact that it is rack-mount means that the computer is not going to be accessed directly. What, are we to buy a 20-computer KVM switch for the 20-computer rackmount array? Of course this all has to do with the Apple server software which uses a
graphical interface to administrate the server with. What the fuck? These rack-mounts are good for nothing but computing power and they want us to waste that on Apple's GUI that brought the Motorola G4 to its knees despite being on a tight FreeBSD core?
And I just love the price scaling: $1000 more for twice the memory (512meg), and another 1ghz G4 processor. A THOUSAND DOLLARS more for dirt cheap RAM and another processor that can't even beat the x86 equivalents in virtually any benchmark (
http://www.digitalpostproduction.com/2002/07_jul/features/cw_macvspc2.htm) even with applications that Apple touts the G4 being superior in (PS7).
For an additional $3500 you get the same amount of processors, 2 GB of RAM (~$500 max, gee whiz) and four 120GB ATA drives. I got my top-of-the-line WD 120gig w/8megs of cache (which these aren't) for $150, which would make these a max of $600 worth of hard drives. Oh and they toss in Applecare support ($300).
I guess if you sell it, they will come, even if it is a ripoff.
-Xotor-
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