"In a move that mirrors the firm's early support for the Opteron server chip in 2003, IBM is now making room in its workstation business for AMD's 64-bit capable processor.
"The company's new IntelliStation A Pro line of workstations are built around Opteron 200 series processors in speeds ranging from 1.8 GHz to 2.2 GHz. The A pro joins a workstation family that includes the Pentium 4- and Xeon-based M Pro and Z Pro, respectively.
"Models can be ordered with Windows XP professional or 64-bit Red Hat's Enterprise Linux WS3. Also common to all IntelliStation A Pros are graphics subsystems from NVIDIA, DDR SDRAM, and a choice of SATA or dual-channel Ultra320 SCSI drives all within a 6-bay minitower..."
