I’m seeing over and over in blogs and “news sites” how Apple’s new Xserve is the most powerful Xserve ever.
Consider:
- Hardware usually gets faster or cheaper. Sometimes both.
- The Xserve price hasn’t dropped like a stone.
- It’s been 4-5 months since the last Xserve was last updated.
Put it another way: Unless it was radically cheaper wouldn’t Apple have just left the old one on the market if the new one wasn’t faster?
I have my problems with MacWorld ((Chief among them their horrible new software, which in addition to being ugly ate my login to the point that I can’t create a new one.)), and I think they’ve fallen some from their glory days, but incidents like this just show how far they’d need to fall to catch up with everyone else. In this case, MacWorld at least used one of Apple’s claims to quantify the increase in their headline, and even attributed it to Apple (Apple: New Xserve twice as fast as predecessor). Not so with hundreds of other news sites.