Apple ships the single processor G5 Xserve

Macworld - Apple Computer Inc. today announced that it is shipping the single processor G5 Xserve, the updated 1U rackmount server first introduced at Macworld San Francisco. The Xserve was originally scheduled to ship in February, but was delayed until Tuesday.

The new G5 Xserve features either single or dual 2.0GHz G5 processors, a new system controller with up to 8GB of PC3200 error correcting code (ECC) memory, up to 750GB of storage, dual onboard GigaBit Ethernet, optional internal hardware RAID, dual PCI-X slots that support 133MHz PCI-X cards with over 1GBps of throughput and FireWire 800 and USB 2.0 ports.

The Xserve ships with Mac OS X Server v10.3 and unlimited user licenses. The single processor model is $2,999 and the dual processor model is $3,999.