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Mac Pro, Mac OS X Virtual Desktops Announced at WWDC

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the and-many-more dept.

haym37 writes "Of the many announcements yet to come at WWDC, the first is the announcement of the Mac Pro. The Mac Pro contains two Intel Xeons, up to 3 GHz, and is supposed to be 1.6x to 2.1x the speed of the PowerMac G5 quad. It can hold up to 2 TB of internal storage and up to 16 GB of memory. The graphics card can be up to a Radeon x1900 or an FX4500. The case will be the same as the PowerMac." MacRumors.com is providing running coverage from the floor (Note: "[U]pdates will be automatically inserted at the top of the updates section. Do not reload manually."), including another announcement that OS X will include virtual desktops. What a great idea!

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  1. Mac store is down by nixmega · · Score: -1, Troll

    Ironically the mac store is also down ATM ... any chane my dreams could come true?? I doubt it lol. But I really, really, really LOVE THIS ANNOUNCEMENT YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!

  2. This sucks by dusanv · · Score: -1, Troll

    They have nothing in the lineup between the piece of furniture (that happens to be PC as well) called iMac and the $2500 quad-core Woodcrest. It seems you have to have a PCI slot you have to pay through the teeth. To add insult to injury, they toss in the junky NVidia 7300 (all for measly $2500). They are just missing a huge segment of the market and that's why they're stuck at 4% for ever now. This is just stupid.

  3. I agree by aardwolf64 · · Score: -1, Troll
    From the formerly live feed:
    10:48 am advanced search - lots of feedback from devs
    10:49 am adding recent items to spotlight
    10:49 am specify file type and other dev requests will be added in leopard
    10:49 am making it a great app launcher
    10:49 am prepopulated with recent stuff you've been doing
    10:49 am what you're looking for is often right there without doing a search

    Imagine that... quick access to your applications, including recently used ones... Sounds an awful lot like a "Start Button" to me.
  4. Re:My keynote thoughts so far... by MSFanBoi2 · · Score: -1, Troll

    Timemachine? Gee Windows XP has had that feature for quite a while...

    Never understood why the mac world seems to gloss over the fact that Apple steals from Microsoft's ideas just as Microsoft steals from Apple...

  5. Re:"MS steals from us" by dfghjk · · Score: 0, Troll

    "Oh really? Do you remember when Outlook came free with every Windows computer?"

    Oh, so Apple is innovative because they were the first to think of adding this feature to a *bundled* mail app?

    Thank God we have Apple to invent everything.

  6. Re:And... iCal by 10Ghz · · Score: 0, Troll
    The year of Linux on the Desktop? No. It's the decade of OS X taking over the desktop.


    Yes, you are right. Linux is destined to fail, whereas OS X is destined to rule because (dramatic pause).... OS X has a "better" built-in calendar! Email, web-browsers, myriad of apps? forget that crap! Calendars is where it's at!
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  7. Apple Stumbles by MSTCrow5429 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Xeons, eh? Not impressed. Power hungry, high heat, underperforming. If Apple was serious about a professional desktop PC, they'd use Opterons, not Xeons. If later Xeon-branded CPUs don't suck, ok, use those. Sticking with an Intel product just because it's an Intel product is a shortsighted move on Apple's part. With the stock debacle, they have to be more careful.

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