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Prices will range from about $1,300 for the 900MHz version to $4,200 for the 1GHz version with the 3MB cache. Current Itanium processors sell for between $1,177 and $4,227. Intel was dealt a setback when Dell Computer, the largest PC maker in the world, said that it had no definite plans for Itanium 2 servers and would not be on hand when Intel unveils the chip next week. "At this point, we are in a bit of a wait-and-see mode with Itanium 2," a Dell representative said. Dell's reluctance comes down to demand. The company is still in the process of gauging how popular the chip will be with customers. Unlike other Intel chips, the Itanium family requires completely new software, and the software is just now being developed.

Apple also began shipping its Xserve rack-mounted server, which runs Unix-based Mac OS X, Apple says that it has received a healthy crop of early Xserve orders--more than 4,000, Each unit can support up to four 120GB hard drives; the PowerPC processors come with 2MB of level-three cache memory for throughput of up to 4GB per second; memory is expandable to 2GB; and the software package includes the Apache Web Server and QuickTime Streaming Server, Apple is singing a new love mei powerful iphone 7 plus protective case - black tune with the acquisition of Emagic, which makes production software for professional musicians, Emagic's most popular product, an application called Logic, is used by more than 200,000 musicians worldwide..

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