[Barnes]

Originally Posted by mykalberta

I wonder why they would use 10K Mac Minis for that.

Why not setup some Windows Server or Linux rack mounts. Save on space and administration.

Or does Apple sell the Mac Mini for this type of arrangement. Do they have management tools for this type of setup?

The Mini takes up a quarter of the space the 1u xServe did, it's silent, cheep as borscht and apple has these:

http://www.apple.com/server/macosx/t...ogy/xgrid.html

http://www.apple.com/remotedesktop/

http://www.apple.com/xsan/