Ventilation issues restricted it to three SATA hot-swap drive bays, with the original space for the fourth drive bay used for air vents. The 32-bit PowerPC G4s were replaced with one or two 64-bit PowerPC 970 processors running at 2 GHz. On JanuApple introduced the Xserve G5, a redesigned higher-performance Xserve. VGA or (VGA, DVI and S-Video) with AGP 4x card Optional AGP 4x card with 64 MB of DDR SDRAMġx 66 MHz PCI/AGP slot (Used for gigabit ethernet card) On Apthe Xserve RAID was introduced, providing a much higher capacity and higher throughput disk subsystem for the Xserve.Ħ4 KB L1, 256 KB (1:1) L2, 2 MB 元 (Per Processor) A new model, the Xserve Cluster node was announced at the same price as the single-processor Xserve, featuring two 1.33 GHz processors, no optical drive, a single hard drive bay, no video or Ethernet cards, and a 10-client version of "Jaguar" server. The front plate was redesigned for a slot-loading optical drive. Improvements included one or two 1.33 GHz PowerPC G4 processors, faster memory, and higher capacity Ultra ATA/133 hard disk drives.
On February 10, 2003, Apple released an improved and expanded Xserve lineup.
Xserves sold before Augshipped with Mac OS X v10.1 "Puma" Server, while those sold after shipped with Mac OS X v10.2 "Jaguar" Server. Initially, two configuration options were available: a single-processor Xserve at US$2999 and a dual-processor Xserve at US$3999.
On November 5, 2010, Apple announced that the Xserve line would be discontinued on Janu and replaced with the Mac Pro Server and the Mac Mini Server.Īpple introduced the Xserve on (released in June).
The Xserve could be used for a variety of applications, including file server, web server or even high-performance computing applications using clustering – a dedicated cluster Xserve, the Xserve Cluster Node, without a video card and optical drives was also available. The Xserve initially featured one or two PowerPC G4 processors, but later switched over to the then-new PowerPC G5, transitioned to Intel with the Core 2-based Xeon offerings and subsequently switched again to two quad-core Intel Nehalem microprocessors. and shipped with Mac OS X Server software. In the meantime, ordinary Power Macintosh G3 and G4 models were rebranded as Macintosh Server G3 and Macintosh Server G4 with some alterations to the hardware, such as added Gigabit Ethernet cards, UltraWide SCSI cards, extra large and fast hard drives etc. Introduced in 2002, it was Apple's first designated server hardware design since the Apple Network Server in 1996. Xserve is a line of rack unit computers designed by Apple Inc. A small Xserve cluster with an Xserve RAID and APC UPS