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WWDC: Apple completes transition to Intel

Today during his keynote address at WWDC Apple CEO Steve Jobs completed the company's transition to Intel by announcing two new pieces of hardware: the Mac Pro and the Intel Xserve.
Written by Jason D. O'Grady, Contributor

Today during his keynote address at Apple's World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) CEO Steve Jobs completed the company's transition to Intel by announcing two new pieces of hardware:

Mac Pro

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- Two 2.66GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon "Woodcrest" processors
- 4MB shared L2 cache per processor
- 1.33GHz dual independent frontside buses
- 1GB memory (667MHz DDR2 fully-buffered DIMM ECC)
- NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT graphics with 256MB memory
- 250GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s 7200-rpm hard drive
- 16x double-layer SuperDrive (DVD+R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
- US$2,499
- Available now
- Press release
- Product page
- Apple store page

Xserve

- Two 64-bit 2.0GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon processors
- 1.33GHz frontside bus and 4MB shared L2 cache per processor
- 1GB memory (667MHz DDR2 ECC fully buffered DIMM)
- 80GB 7200-rpm Serial ATA hard drive
- Built-in ATI Radeon X1300 graphics with 64MB RAM
- Mac OS X Server 10.4 Unlimited-Client Edition
- Starting at US$2,999
- Available in October
- Press release
- Product page
- Apple store page
 
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