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Colin Miller wrote:

>And does the fact that they dominate the pro market mean anything? I work
on a 
>Mac with 1 PCI slots (my personal rig has 10). I prefer using an expansion 
>chassis as there is more flexibilty in choosing sizes. I also don't want them 
>to make a bigger chassis which won't fit into a 19" rack, which is a 
>requirement for pro use. Maybe they exsist (I haven't looked very hard) but I 
>haven't seen any 6 slot PCs that are rackable (not that finding a 6 slot 
>rackable PC is a criteria for me).

PC cases can be any shape or size you want. Just not any colour ;-)

Rackmountable PC cases are widely available -- whether you want to build
your own system or you are a PC constructor/VAR. They aren't often seen in
the highstreet clone shop but you can get them easily. They are often well
built and reasonably expensive compared to the cheap and ubiquitous desktop
case or midi-tower. 

Rackmount x86 hardware is supplied by many companies for server
applications and some servers offer heaps of expansion slots too. What
proportion of machines on the net would be PCs in rackmount cases? Pretty
substantial I would guess -- heaps of PCs running Linux and Apache for a
start. 

Macs are thin on the ground in professional IT. If you tried to explain to
Pro IT people that expansion chassis were a good thing - better than a
single case -- they would look at you funny. 

Regards,
M