WWDC:; Mac Pro workstation, Xserve

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Aug 7, 20061 min

4200 attendees, 48 counreies. 750,000 registered developers. 19M Mac installed base. 1,000 Apple Engineers on site.

Apple flagship in NYC on 5th avenue, glass cube, no metal. 17M visitors last quarter.

POWER MAC: Phil Schiller. Now Mac Pro. Intel Xeon, Woodcrest. Dual Core, up to 3GHz.

64-bit.

Performance per Watt, First reference to Opteron. All Mac Pros get 2 CPUs. 2X faster than Power Mac G5.

4 drives inside, 2nd optical. New snap-in, no cable drive carriage. More ports up front.

One standard configuration; Dual/dual, Nvidia, 2.66 250gb, 2,499. Similar config from Dell $1000 more. ATI Radeon X1900.

Mac Pro STARTS SHIPPING TODAY.

XSERVE: Quad core, 1U, redundant power, 2.25 TB disk. Lights-out mgmt software. Standard config 2,999, much cheaper than XServe G5.