The Xserve initially featured one or two PowerPC G4 processors, but 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. and shipped with Mac OS X Server software.
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. Introduced in 2002, it was Apple's first designated server hardware design since the Apple Network Server in 1996. Xserve is a line of rack unit computers designed by Apple Inc.
A small Xserve cluster with an Xserve RAID and APC UPS
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