Dell gets slim with Xeon servers
InfoWorld | at | by Mike
Dell announced a new rack-mount server Monday that will be the first of its slim, two-processor systems to ship with Intel's Xeon chips. The PowerEdge 2650 takes up 2U (3.5 inches) of rack space and starts at $2,399 without an operating system but with one 1.8GHz Xeon processor, 256MB of memory, and an 18GB hard drive. A high-end version of the system with Microsoft's Windows 2000 server operating system, dual 2.4GHz Xeons, 6GB of DDR SDRAM (double data rate synchronous dynamic RAM) and five 36GB hard drives is priced at $16,427, said Darrel Ward, senior manager of rack servers at Dell. The servers also ship with Dell's remote-access technology and OpenManage management software. Dell will sell the PowerEdge 2650 with Windows 2000 Server, Windows 200 Advanced Server and others.