I just configured a Dell R905 on Dell's canadian website with the following specs.

4x Opteron 2.3GHz Quad core
16GB RAM
2x 15k 173GB RAID 1
3x 7.2k 1TB RAID 5

And the total was $11,780 canadian dollars, or approx. US$9161.31. So that's a savings of over $6000. With that savings you get slightly faster CPUs, an enterprise class rackmount chassis, full hardware level remote management (you can even install an OS on it from half way around the world), redundant power supplies, hot swap drives.

You'll lose a couple of drives (an external drive cage is dirt cheap), and of course that lovely fan wart on the side of the case... :p

http://www.zcorpsolutions.com/3dprinters.php

A little bigger, but also 5X faster and full colour.

Once and for all...

NT 3.1 - 1993
NT 3.5 - 1994
NT 3.51 - 1995
NT 4.0 - 1996
NT 5.0 - 2000 (Windows 2000)
NT 5.1 - 2002 (Windows XP)
NT 5.2 - 2003 (Windows Server 2003)
NT 6.0 - 2007/2008 (Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008)

...and these are absolutely not meant for use in your gaming desktop machine. Xeon chips are for servers and pro level workstations. If it doesn't have "Core" branding, it's not meant for playing Call of Duty.

I don't know what you're talking about pfromg. They're going to sell a boatload of these. Ever heard of server virtualization? Might want to read up on it. A four socket * 6 core server (24 cores total) and 256GB RAM could easily run 40:1 or 50:1 consolidation ratios under VMWare ESX 3.5.

Think about it this way. Say your company needs 200 servers. Would you want to buy 200 * $5000 servers for $1 million, or 5 * $40,000 servers for $200,000?

Now imagine your company needs 5000 windows servers, like mine does.

How's this for confirmation? November 29th release on Orange.

http://www.apple.com/fr/iphone/

Okay, I'll give you that it's a quarter. I rounded badly.

Anyway, there are 8.1 million people in that tiny part (out of 31.6 million in the whole country), and they're generally the most affluent people in the country, so it's certainly not an insignificant network rollout.

"While the actual live network is still tiny -- covering only a small portion of one province"

You may want to mention that the "small portion of one province" in question is the "Golden Horseshoe" in southern Ontario. That area may be small, but it contains nearly one third of population of the entire country.

This is just the new generation's "Intellivision Thumb". That disc on the controller was murder.

Very nice work guys.