[Adium-devl] Hardware plans

[Chris Forsythe]

On Aug 19, 2007, at 1:57 PM, Zachary West wrote:

> On 8/19/07, Chris Forsythe <chris at adiumx.com> wrote:
> I'm wondering if we'd be better off buying a bunch of mac mini's and
> putting them on a tray. Would we get more bang for the buck out of
> one machine, or 3 machines that cost the same as the one (just pulled
> the figure out of the air, haven't even looked at pricing).
>
> One XServe is >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 3 Mac Minis.

Yes, but for our purposes is it such? That's the question I'm asking.  
For a buildbot set of boxes, is it better to run 6 machines, or 2  
machines? The macbu for instances uses a combination, or at least  
that's what this interview seems to say:

http://davidweiss.blogspot.com/2006/04/tour-of-microsofts-mac-lab.html

Basically I don't think we'll get this big, but if they've gone with  
mini's for testing office, I don't see how mini's would be bad for us  
for testing Adium. One xserve to build stuff, and then the mini's we  
can add on later. I was questioning purchasing more than one xserve.

Anyhow, I say wait until at least 10.5 is out so that we can see if  
they upgrade the xserve, and get one or two mini's now as build  
boxes. Assumably they'll update it then.

Chris
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