[Swordmaker]

"Despite its reputation, [Apple] is not more expensive," says William Van Etten, co-founder of the BioTeam, a consulting group that has set up Mac clusters for biologists. "When including maintenance and support, one could easily argue that it's cheaper."

More Cost of Ownership evidence for the Macintosh...

[applemac_g4]

Bump.

Apple is enjoying a resurgence in the marketplace. Between last summer's blaster worm, numerous viruses, and the MS Windows vulnerabilities that make it susceptible to spyware people are starting to realize that there's a better way.

Macintosh laptop sales surged 2.5% to 7% of all units sold and another year and a half of similar growth will put them over the 10% of marketshare mark - second only to Dell, and by a margin smaller than some might suspect.

If you're frustrated with your computer, switch.

http://www.apple.com

[ikka]

The secret weapon that Apple has is Avie Tevanian. He built on work done by Rick Rashid - he was doing clusters of computers in the early 80s.

With Apple's new XGrid software you can tell it to grab unused CPU time from all the machines on your LAN. You can basically make a smallish supercomputer just by waiting for everyone else in the office to go home.

[RnMomof7]

Mac Bump!

[Reactionary]

I installed an XServe to function as a DHCP server and a Macintosh Manager server nearly a year ago. After it crashed after a week, I ditched the entire thing until Apple could get their act together.

I did install the latest patches on the XServe a few weeks ago, and I let it run for about ten days to see if they've fixed the thing. It ran fine, but the real test will come when it's actually required to do some work.