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The recently held WWDC keynote uncovered an interesting tidbit. It seems that the new Mac Pro is cheaper than a similarly configured Dell by around US$1210, except for a Quadro NVS 285 graphics card on the Dell to the Mac Pro’s GeForce 7300GT. It’s going for only $2499 according to Apple’s site against Dell’s $3709 price tag on the Precision 390.

And Dell isn’t the only PC manufacturer the new Mac Pro is being compared against. Apparently, even the HP Workstation xw8400 is $1292 more expensive than its Apple counterpart.

Now, this is news. Given that the latest Mac’s can all run Windows using either Apple’s free Boot Camp or Parallels’ Virtual Machine, this looks like an incredible deal. But we’ll have to see how things go from here to say anything more.

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CNET hates it when PC vendors like Dell mess with the validity of their reviews. We over here hate it when PC vendors delay shipping schedules even more than they should.

Remember when people were speculating that the XPS 700 would start shipping after Dell started getting stock of Intel Core 2 Duo processors?

Now, the community is speculating instead that the gaming powerhouse will start shipping as late as February 2007 due to the inclusion of Nvidia’s new Nforce 590 chipset.

I pity the guys waiting for their XPS 700s. After all, by the time they get it, it might no longer be the top dog in town.

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Even workstations are getting upgrades to Intel’s recently-launched Core 2 Duo processor. The first up seems to be the Dell Precision 390 - which will support processors up to the 2.93GHz Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800.

If you have the dough to splash, you can even get a 512MB NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500, up to 8GB RAM and up to 2TB of hard disk space.

At the moment, it starts at US$899, but you only get a 3GHz Pentium 4 processor for that sort of cash. Expect to pay at least $1,888 if you’re looking for one with a Core 2 Extreme processor.

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In an effort to remind the most demanding users of the superiority of its product line, Dell has launched two new workstations, with the Dell Precision 690 being the more powerful of the two.

The Precision 690 comes equipped with up to two Dual-Core Intel Xeon 5000 series (64-bit) processors, up to 64GB of DDR2 RAM (yes, 64GB) via optional memory risers, and even a 512MB NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 graphics card if you have the cash to splurge. It can also be fitted with up to 5 hard disk drives, i.e. 4 SAS and 1 SATA (boot).

Of course, “up to” and “potential” are words that are pretty much useless to most consumers since only madmen would pump their workstation with tens of thousands of dollars of RAM. So, we think it is more important to note that the Precision 690 starts as low as US$1,729, don’t you think so?

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Now, I may not be the type that crawl the Dell website for the latest and biggest offers, but it seems there are those that are (which is really a good thing by the way). A CocoonTech.com reader reports that Dell is offering some big discounts (almost 50%) on some of its older dekstops.

The desktops on offer are the Dell Dimension 1100, 3100, 5150 and 9150, as well as the Dell OptiPlex 210L and Precision 380. They consist of Celeron D-powered desktops (Dimension 1100), Pentium 4 HT-powered desktops (OptiPlex 210L, Dimension 3100), and dual core-powered desktops (Dimension 5150, 9150).

According to Dell’s site, the offer will expire on the 3rd of May, 2006. So, if you’re interested in some cheap computers, head over to Dell’s website.

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