Similarly, Apple bumped up the specs on its Xserve, slotting a pair of 45-nanometer quad-core Xeon's into its rack-mounted server.

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Saint Andrews also gave new iPads and MacBooks to all 90 faculty members, upgraded its aging Windows 2000 servers to ultra-fast quad-core Apple XSERVE servers, and installed a whole new Wi-Fi infrastructure, according to Larry Tremblay, technology director at Saint Andrews.

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