Xserve G5
 The original Xserve G4  The second-generation Xserve G4 
The Xserve G4 Cluster Node
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| Developer | Apple Inc. |
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| Type | Rackmounted Server |
| Release date | May 14, 2002 |
| Discontinued | January 6, 2004 |
| CPU | Single or dual PowerPC G4, 1 GHz – 1.33 GHz |
 The Xserve G5
The Xserve G5 Cluster Node
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| Developer | Apple Inc. |
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| Type | Rackmounted Server |
| Release date | January 6, 2004 |
| Discontinued | November 2006 |
| CPU | Single or dual PowerPC G5, 2 GHz – 2.3 GHz |
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The Intel Xserve
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| Developer | Apple Inc. |
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| Type | Rackmounted Server |
| Release date | November 2006 |
| Discontinued | January 31, 2011 |
| CPU | Single or Dual Intel Xeon Dual or Quad Core CPUs, 2.0 GHz – 3.33 GHz |
| Website | apple.com/xserve |
Xserve was a line of rack unit computers designed by Apple Inc. for use as servers. When the Xserve was introduced in 2002, it was Apple's first designated server hardware design since the Apple Network Server in 1996. In the meantime, ordinary Power Macintosh G3 and G4 models were rebranded as Macintosh Server G3 and Macintosh Server G4 with some alterations to the hardware, such as added Gigabit Ethernet cards, UltraWide SCSI cards, extra large and fast hard drives etc. and shipped with Mac OS X Server software. The Xserve initially featured one or two PowerPC G4 processors, but was later switched over to the then new PowerPC G5, transitioned to Intel with the Core 2 based Xeon offerings and subsequently switched again to two quad-core Intel Nehalem microprocessors.
The Xserve can be used for a variety of applications, including file server, web server or even high-performance computing applications using clustering – a dedicated cluster Xserve, the Xserve Cluster Node, without a video card and optical drives was also available. On November 5, 2010, Apple announced that the Xserve line would be discontinued on January 31, 2011 and replaced with the Mac Pro Server and the Mac Mini Server.
Apple introduced the Xserve on May 14, 2002 (released in June). Initially, two configuration options were available: a single-processor Xserve at US$2999 and a dual-processor Xserve at US$3999. Xserves sold before August 24, 2002 shipped with Mac OS X v10.1 "Puma" Server, while those sold after shipped with Mac OS X v10.2 "Jaguar" Server.
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