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We tested Apple Snow Leopard on two Apple-supplied servers, an older one that's been in the lab as a test unit, and a newer XServe with 8GB of DRAM, SSD 128GB boot drive, three SAS secondary drives in RAID 5 configuration; twin GBE ports, two 2.6Ghz Intel quad r-core 64-bit CPUs.
Our benchmarks were performed on the newer Xserve. We also tested upgrade time from OS 10.5.8 to 10.6.0, and found it to be short. We tested MacOS 10.6 on a switched GBE network connected via broadband to our cloud located in nFrame's Carmel, Ind., network operations center. Connectivity was tested with Windows XP SP3, Vista SP2, and Windows 7 RTM, as well as client Macs using Apple's MacOS 10.5/10.6 on PowerPC and Intel, and connectivity with Ubuntu 9.02.
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