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Holds Its Own Against Dell’s PowerEdge R610, HP’s ProLiant DL360 G6

The glowing review of the Sun Fire X4170 in PC Pro by Dave Mitchell cites little to find fault with in Sun’s Xeon-5570 powered processors, allowing that there is merit in the claim that the X4170 holds its own against competing 4U solutions. This level of performance, he notes, comes with a TDP of 95 watts while also supporting Hyper-Threading and Turbo-Boost. He adds that the 5570s support memory speeds up to 1,333MHz and have the highest speed QPI of 6.4GT/sec.

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Notes Added Features Bring More Professional Appeal

A deep dive look at OpenOffice.org 3.1 by PC Pro Contributing Editor Simon Jones praises the latest version’s new features, adding that, although considered a minor upgrade, this release brings “polish to the nearest thing Microsoft Office has to a competitor.” Jones particularly likes the improvements in the anti-aliasing of graphics, which makes the clarity of charts and drawings much better, and the showing of shadow objects while dragging. He writes that “these two features alone make OpenOffice look much more professional.”

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