The Future of Apple's Pro Desktop Line

SB_SamuraiSam writes "WWDC is drawing nearer and ArsTechnica has a thorough look at what they think Apple's plans are for their future Pro desktop line. It's a decent read. As always Ars has a competent pulse on Apple and is more reasonable than purely speculative. From the article:

I think Apple's CPU choice is clear cut. Strange as it sounds, the Xeon 5100 series is the best fit for the Mac. If Apple wants to keep the Quad name alive, it's the only option. Dual CPU configurations are not possible with anything else in Intel land, so if Apple wants to offer two CPUs and four cores, Xeon is the only game in town. With the benchmarks we have seen, the Core 2 Duo is a clear winner for Intel, outperforming anything AMD has to offer. The Xeon? With its faster FSB and different memory, it's even faster than the Core 2 Duo."

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Ok faggot

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You call names, i can, too. Failed abortion.

Because apples are so known for gaming, you asshat, right?
Take a look at the benchmarks of stuff workstations really do.
Have you seen how annihilated the k8 architecture was in stuff like compiling/photoshop/media encoding and even rendering (in 3dsmax as well as in cinemabench?). Thats the stuff people buy workstations for, and thats exactly where AMD is losing it.

Maybe YOU are the g4m3r here, because it seems you have no fucking clue about the whole situation.

IN fact, explaining to you just why the conroe|woodcrest design is superior, and why the architecture of the k8 is slowly becoming depricated (besides some miner tweekings the core is still the k7, designed 8 years ago) would be a futile exercise, like trying to teach a turd to dance.
Just get a clue.