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Apple today also introduced the new 27-inch LED Cinema Display.

You can connect your Mac with Mini DisplayPort to the LED Cinema Display for a panoramic viewing experience unlike any other. You get a huge 27-inch glossy widescreen display with a cinematic 16:9 aspect ratio and an astonishing 2560-by-1440 resolution. With 60 percent more pixels than the 24-inch LED Cinema Display, the 27-inch LED Cinema Display gives you even more room for all your windows and applications.

Most displays take time to warm up before they reach maximum brightness, an LED-backlit display is instantly on and uniformly bright. LED backlighting also gives you greater control over screen brightness.

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Apple today announces the new Mac Pro, with up to 12 cores of processing power. The new Mac Pro delivers more processing power, more graphics performance, and more storage options.

The new Mac Pro, available in August, includes:

• 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon W3530 processor with 8MB of fully-shared L3 cache
• 3GB of 1066 MHz DDR3 ECC SDRAM memory, expandable up to 16GB
• ATI Radeon HD 5770 with 1GB of GDDR5 memory
• 1TB Serial ATA 3Gb/s hard drive running at 7200 rpm
• 18x SuperDrive with double-layer support
• AirPort Extreme® 802.11n

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Apple today announced the new iMac with new processors and advanced graphics. The new iMac feature new dual-core Intel Core i3, i5 and i7 processors, in 21.5 and 27-inch configurations.

• Aluminum and glass design
• Brilliant LED displays
• Highest display resolution
• Fastest processors
• Most powerful graphics
• World’s greenest
• Built-in iSight Video Camera and Microphone

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Let your fingers do the clicking, scrolling, and swiping.

The new Magic Trackpad is the first Multi-Touch trackpad designed to work with your Mac desktop computer. It uses the same Multi-Touch technology you love on the MacBook Pro. And it supports a full set of gestures, giving you a whole new way to control and interact with what’s on your screen. Swiping through pages online feels just like flipping through pages in a book or magazine. And inertial scrolling makes moving up and down a page more natural than ever. Magic Trackpad connects to your Mac via Bluetooth wireless technology. Use it in place of a mouse or in conjunction with one on any Mac computer — even a notebook.

The entire surface of Magic Trackpad is one large button, so you can click and double-click anywhere. Magic Trackpad also supports a full set of gestures, including two-finger scrolling, pinching to zoom, rotating with your fingertips, three-finger swiping, and activating Exposé or switching between applications with four fingers.

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About Mac OS X Server v10.6.4 Update (v.1.1)

The 10.6.4 update is recommended for all servers currently running Snow Leopard Server version 10.6. It includes Safari 5 and general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility and security of your server, as well as specific fixes for:

• CalDAV querying of email addresses with Active Directory and Open Directory servers
• stability and reliability accessing Wiki Server pages
• view movies on Wiki Server with Safari on iPad
• accessing publicly accessible Wikis when logged in to the Wiki Server
• listing blogs on Wiki Server
• vacation mail notices that span across multiple days
• updates from Software Update Server viewable by clients
• stability and reliability to Software Update Server synchronization
• downloading of software updates by Software Update Server
• creating NetInstall images which include iLife updater packages
• address issues copying, renaming, or deleting files on SMB file servers
• improve reliability of VPN connections

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