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2007 Harpertown Stoakley-Seaburg Motherboard With New Graphics Cards 8-Core Mac Pro

Are You Waiting For A Stoakley-Seaburg and 2007 Graphics Cards 8-Core Mac Pro

  • No. I bought the FrankenMac

    Votes: 30 7.1%

  • Yes I Will Wait 'Til Apple Gets It Right

    Votes: 246 58.0%

  • Not sure. Waiting for benchmarks on the 4.4.07 model.

    Votes: 27 6.4%

  • I'll stick with 4 cores, thank you very much.

    Votes: 121 28.5%
  • Total voters
    424
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He'd have the ulta-thin, santa rosa for the macbook (and maybe aluminum), new appletvs, imac and mp speed and graphics bumps, and the iphone extreme. He would have lots to show without the Mac Pro.

MacWorld is a consumer show. Not a showcase for the real Pro workstation or servers. That said, it is looking like the Mac Pro will be launched at Mac World, if then!!!!!! :eek:
 
Rowlander said:
A silent update for their pro-machine that hasn´t been updated in over a year? Leaving you only with thinner laptops to show at you big event two months later!
Would you do that if you were Steve Jobs?

Or would you introduce it with a big bang at Macworld, calling it "the fastest personal computer on the planet!" and saying things like: "Isn´t this amazing?", "boom" and "This is the best mac we ever built, I think our customers will love it."

And don´t forget the best one and my personal reason for why I think, they will hold it back until Macworld:
"Shipping ... TODAY!" (*Audience cheers.*)

:D

If only it was January already. At this point, I would be surprised to see the new Mac Pro before Macworld.
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How many Macs were introduced at last year's MacWorld????


Exactly. :rolleyes:
 
Wild-Bill said:
How many Macs were introduced at last year's MacWorld????


Exactly. :rolleyes:
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You are right, they didn´t introduce any new macs at Macworld 2007. In 2006 they had the new Intel-iMacs and the new Macbook Pro.
The Mac Pro was introduced at WWDC 2006 if I remember correctly.

You do have a point. I´d love to be wrong and be able to buy a new Mac Pro in two weeks. :)
 
Sighted in, check. Windage and elevation, check. Waiting on target to show and confirmation of GPUs available. Waiting to pull the trigger.

My prediction: Nov. 6th or 13th. Why? Because so many other people seem to be pulling their stuff out of the air. So why not me?

It's all about the Doritos.
 
darthraige said:
Well, we all know there won't be a MacPro until after Leopard since the countdown is taking up the home page. And I would think at least 1-3 weeks after Leopard since Apple switches around the home pages that often. :mad:
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Bite your tongue.

Silent update FTW.
 
Mac Kiwi said:
Fingers crossed for late October then!
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Aren't you forgetting the 12 November event?

The only time that I can remember that Intel allowed sales before announcement was a couple of years ago, when a desktop chip was announced on a Monday but a couple of systems were available the Saturday/Sunday before.
 
I Thought November 12 Was The Retail Boxes Announcement

AidenShaw said:
Aren't you forgetting the 12 November event?

The only time that I can remember that Intel allowed sales before announcement was a couple of years ago, when a desktop chip was announced on a Monday but a couple of systems were available the Saturday/Sunday before.
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I thought that was for RETAIL availability of Harpertown in retail boxes. So you're saying the November 12 release is for everything Harpertown not just retail boxes?
 
AidenShaw said:
Aren't you forgetting the 12 November event?

The only time that I can remember that Intel allowed sales before announcement was a couple of years ago, when a desktop chip was announced on a Monday but a couple of systems were available the Saturday/Sunday before.
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Didn't the 3.0GHz quad code appear in the Mac Pro before it had been announced?
 
aLoC said:
Didn't the 3.0GHz quad code appear in the Mac Pro before it had been announced?
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While Apple (and other's before Aiden jumps in) had this part earlier than Intel pushed it in to the market, and the iMacs 2.8Ghz processor, they are just high end components of existing lines. With this being a whole new processor line don't expect Apple to have it earlier than release. An announcement maybe, but not shipping systems.
 
Umbongo said:
While Apple (and other's before Aiden jumps in) had this part earlier than Intel pushed it in to the market, and the iMacs 2.8Ghz processor, they are just high end components of existing lines. With this being a whole new processor line don't expect Apple to have it earlier than release. An announcement maybe, but not shipping systems.
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The public already know all there is to know about Penryn.

They will already have access to the processors now (and most likely the last couple of months).
 
Pressure said:
The public already know all there is to know about Penryn.

They will already have access to the processors now (and most likely the last couple of months).
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Intel ramps up production well before the formal announcement date, so that usually the vendors have systems ready to sell/ship on announcement day.

The 3.0 GHz was a fluke - Apple used the 150 watt part, which other big manufacturers declined to use. The old 150 watt was also available from a few white-box vendors.

The mainstream manufacturers waited for the new, faster G0 stepping which needs 120 watts.

Here's a link from a month ago with more info about the older 150 watt CPU and the 120 watt CPU::
https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/4191030/
 
Multimedia said:
I thought that was for RETAIL availability of Harpertown in retail boxes. So you're saying the November 12 release is for everything Harpertown not just retail boxes?
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Intel's usual m.o. is to hold all consumer sales to announcement day. Obviously, vendors are given early access to parts so that they can build up stock for the announce.

Look back at Yonah - all the big guys (except one) had stuff to sell on announcement, but nothing was out before that.
 
Pressure said:
They will already have access to the processors now (and most likely the last couple of months).
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They get pre-production samples many months ahead of time, but it's typically much closer to announcement before final production parts are shipped.

Note that Intel is already demonstrating Nehalem, and quad-core mobile with Montevina. This is even before Penryn is announced.

A typical scenario is:

- Intel demos very early chips on prototype platforms
- First tier manufacturers get a handful of chips to begin mobo/system development
- Manufacturers get hundreds of pre-production chips for beta testing of new platforms
- Chip goes into production, and manufacturers get large quantities of production chips to build systems
- Intel has the formal announcement, and the systems can be sold

Did you notice that at IDF last month most vendors were demoing on Penryn/Stoakley systems? The pipeline is filling.
 
Don't know if this portends anything on possible new MPs :-

With the release of all the Leopard Server specs, eagle-eyed reader Tony notes that Apple's Server Administration information page shows a screenshot of an intriguing configuration: a 2x 2.7Ghz Dual-Core Intel Xeon-based XServe. No such machine with that processor config is currently available from Apple.

Factor in that Intel doesn't actually ship a 2.7Ghz Xeon dual-core chip at the moment, and it seems that Apple and Intel may well be plotting a new build of the XServe on a new CPU for eager enterprise customers, just in time for Leopard Server.
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