OzHub, the Macquarie Telecom-led cloud computing alliance, has come down firmly on the side of Optus over the copyright controversy surrounding Optus TV Now, warning that any moves to change the law "risk branding Australia a global luddite state."
The Mac Pro now offers a faster chip and additional storage, while the Xserve can be ordered with more storage and more memory. This isn't one of Apple's "more for the same money" line upgrades, though -- the base models cost the same as before, and the new options aren't cheap.
On the Mac Pro, the single-processor Quad-Core model can now be ordered with a 3.33GHz version of the Intel Xeon chip. (The 8-core version remains unchanged.)
That's a 125 percent speed boost over the base model's 2.66 GHz Xeon, but it comes with a US$1,200/AU$1,920 price tag. That means a Mac Pro with the fastest chip costs about 50 percent more than the base model.
The Mac Pro's four drive bays can now each be ordered with a 2TB drive, up from the 1TB option available before.
These drives aren't cheap, either -- Apple wants US$550/$880 for each one installed to order, several hundred dollars more than you can buy a bare 2TB drive for yourself. They're high-quality drives, though -- 7200 RPM, 3Gb/s, faster than many of the cheaper options.
The Xserve also can be ordered with the 2TB drive in each of its three drive bays, for the same upgrade price.
Moreover, the server is now available with 4GB RAM chips -- up from the previous two -- meaning that the single-chip Quad-Core model can now handle 24 GB, and the dual-chip model 48 GB. Each 4GB chip costs about US$450/AU$750 installed.
Also, the U.S. Apple site's Xserve page says it will support up to 96 GB of memory when used with Mac OS X Server 10.6 (Snow Leopard Server). That means it must work with 8GB chips, which are not generally available in the Xserve's format yet.
The Australian Xserve page doesn't mention the 96GB capability, but presumably it applies there as well.
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