If you’ve been wanting Xserve, act quickly. As of January 31st, 2011, Apple will be discontinuing the sale of this server line. While they say they will still fully support the product, they have put a transition guide up on their website that points customers towards other options. This isn’t all that surprising. It’s clear that Apple, Inc. as a company is not in the hardware server market and shouldn’t attempt to be anymore.

Yesterday morning, the Apple store was once again down, sparking some new rumors about what could appear. The store soon returned to normal, but with a new Xserve available, this time sporting the Intel Xeon “Nehalem” processor, the same that the latest Mac Pro uses.

Psystar is now branding themselves as “the leading provider of Mac-compatible computers,” and they’ve released server grade machines. Server-grade machines are all well and good, but “the leading provider of Mac-compatible computers?” Really? First of all, every computer on the market today—HP, Dell, and tons of others—is Mac-compatible. After all, the Mac is a computer, more »