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Apple Ships 8-Core MacPro
ivan1024 writes "The Apple website is announcing the availability of an 8-core Mac Pro. The machine will ship with two 3.0 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon 5300 processors. Older models with the Dual-Core chips remain available. Base model with two 3.0 GHz Quad-Core Xeon processors start at $3997, (albeit with unacceptably minimal RAM or HD space; fully spec'd with dual 30" monitors and tons o' RAM/HD still over $10K... bummer)"
Since Apple have now fixed Boot Camp so that you can run Vista, this new hardware will help with the Vista performance problems.
Yeah, Apple's totally missing the boat. If only they made some sort of "mini" Mac for consumers, or a Mac notebook. They could call that a Mac Book or something.
I'm in the hole of the broadband donut.
I would say that Apple (not Dell) finally put out a machine capable of running Vista. [dodges flying chair]
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
duel-3GHz
Actually, Intel hasn't yet shipped the Quattro Quad Core Core 2 Dueling Dualist Duo - that is coming later this month.
Apple is using the Core 2 Quad in this box (which lacks the swashbuckling extensions).
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You sound like the PC version of the Mac guys you gripe about. :)
Last time I bought a Mac, in the 1980s, they charged me $175 for the extended keyboard. Do they still do that?
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I don't see the average consumer being smart enough to lobby for multi-threaded software....?
I don't see the average programmer experienced enough to write multi-threaded software...
that would be some sort of freak of nature. I wouldn't eat it.
I have excellent Karma and I am not afraid to Troll it.
probably best to install gentoo on it and compile everything yourself
But seriously, unless you're gonna keep all 8 cores cooking a lot, or you do a lot of seriously high-end video work or something else where speed above all else matters, they'll be a waste.
OK...
I'm sorry, but is Apple running a "Buy an 8-Core Mac for your grandma" campaign or something?
Yeah I'm running him in bootcamp.
Come on, it took GOD a whole week to make just this puny little planet and you complain that it takes several days to make a whole Galaxy!
In my days, we had to ... oh never mind.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
Well, they are able to boot into Windows since the Intel switch...
Are you kidding? I will finally be able to use Word, with check-spelling-as-you-type on, and not have a lag between pressing the key and the character appearing on the screen!
I am a believer of momentum and curves.
I always give my girlfriend shit when something bad happens on her mac, I say, "That doesn't happen on PCs." And now her 6-month old Powerbook is slowly crapping out, and as it dies, I will be vindicated. Ahhhh, sweet vindication.
How can you possibly love your platform more than your girlfriend? Even if my girlfriend were using a Commodore 64, I'd still support her choice of platform.
He did mention TV production...
4d? Are you sending your rendered images into the past, or the future?
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Imagine a single Beowulf machine of this!
That's just... wrong. If you have a 570 lying around to run gentoo on, you should at least be typing, "emerge written_language", or "emerge photosynthesis". Oh wait, sorry, that's a 590 I'm thinking about.
the more accurate the calculations became, the more the concepts tended to vanish into thin air. R. S. Mulliken
thats impossible even for an 8 core machine.
please stop spreading this misinformation.
"In America, first you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women..." -H. Simpson
Hose computers are great, especially when you connect them up to a series of tubes.
make world, not war
I was wondering when the first "but I can build one for $13.45 cheaper" turd would float to the surface. Here's a clue, bud: most people who use this type of hardware (vid editing, 3d, graphics in general) don't get their jollies sourcing components on the net and assembling a machine in their basement. They want to do actual work.
This is apple.slashdot and the usual rules do not apply. Mod points here are to be used to mod down when a comment upsets someone, or is not explicitly positive about Apple or one of it's products.
They may be used in a positive manner for posts along the lines of 'omg I luv apple' and 'mee too' etc.
Obviously you aren't a true geek.
Mac OS X and Windows XP working side by side to fight back the night.
Usually E and the spacebar wear out first. I wonder what this guy was doing with his keyboard. Then again, maybe he just missed his t-time.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
It's part of their "Core Excrement" framework which is primarily used so people migrating from windows aren't so lost.
Sheldon