The Great Hardware debate

No, it's not Dell versus HP. Or Apple versus everyone else. It's cheap, commodity hardware versus expensive, specialized hardware. This has always been a point of debate in any sort of hardware procurement decision, and you've probably guessed by now that I come down on the cheap, commodity side of the lines eight times out of ten. Tom's Hardware explores the evolution of the question as it is currently being applied in the Web 2.0 era, with massive datacenters becoming the focal point of IT