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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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areve said:
And considering that Apple already bought them all... :D

No, more seriously, this bug only affects Yorkfields, which are desktop processors. Xeons are not affected.
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Unfortunately we cannot prove this as Intel have not said anything official in regards to this issue but there appears to be plenty of Penryn chips out there.
 
If my information is correct, Nehalem's to come out 8ish months after Penryn. Considering November, that's July. Even if it's early August before the Nehalem Macs appear, that's still in the nick of time for me to go to college. Unless I'm just spouting daisies here and Nehalem's a 2009 prospect... that'd suck.
 
Tallest Skil said:
If my information is correct, Nehalem's to come out 8ish months after Penryn. Considering November, that's July. Even if it's early August before the Nehalem Macs appear, that's still in the nick of time for me to go to college. Unless I'm just spouting daisies here and Nehalem's a 2009 prospect... that'd suck.
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I would think the current situation with Penryn Mac Pros comming two months after release of processors should tell you not to get your hopes up.
 
Umbongo said:
I would think the current situation with Penryn Mac Pros comming two months after release of processors should tell you not to get your hopes up.
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The question then becomes are we two months closer to a Nehalem Mac Pro or does Apple delay the Nehalem Mac Pro by two months also.
 
Topper said:
The question then becomes are we two months closer to a Nehalem Mac Pro or does Apple delay the Nehalem Mac Pro by two months also.
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Regardless of when Apple decides to release the Nehalem Mac Pros, we will be two months closer to that date two months from now.
 
The trouble is if Apple don't release a Penryn Mac Pro soon, we will only be a few months away from the "supposed" realease of Nehalem. With the changes that Nehalem will bring, I would imagine people with the last few high end G5 models will just wait it out, and I wouldn't be suprised if a few of us here wiating for a Penryn based system may well do as well.

I'm not doing anything processor intensive for a few months so i may well be waiting and seeing how long they leave it. If they release MWSF and is available there and then, i'll buy one, but if it goes beyond mid-march and i still have got any work to do that needs a lot of grunt, I might end up waiting.

So come on Steve, pull your finger out and give us those Penryn's!
 
G4DP said:
The trouble is if Apple don't release a Penryn Mac Pro soon, we will only be a few months away from the "supposed" realease of Nehalem. With the changes that Nehalem will bring, I would imagine people with the last few high end G5 models will just wait it out.
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Speaking for myself... no, I am not going to wait for the Nehalem even though it will probably be worth it.
I think people with the current Mac Pros will probably be the biggest buyers of the Nehalem Mac Pro.
I will definitely buy the Harpertown Mac Pro but IF the Nehalem Mac Pro has much more powerful video cards I will trade my Harpertown for a Nehalem Mac Pro.
 
G4DP said:
The trouble is if Apple don't release a Penryn Mac Pro soon, we will only be a few months away from the "supposed" realease of Nehalem. With the changes that Nehalem will bring, I would imagine people with the last few high end G5 models will just wait it out, and I wouldn't be suprised if a few of us here wiating for a Penryn based system may well do as well.
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Um, yeah, I'm not waiting. My desktop is now over 6.5 years old and literally held together by packing tape. The next refresh and my bank account gets emptied.
 
Since apple has now adopted intel processors I'm wondering about the hardware differences between macs and pcs. Maybe someone can elaborate.

If there are no longer barriers between the two then is it reasonable to assume we may see more hardware options for macs, particularly with respect to graphics cards in the future. What is keeping this at bay? I can understand why apple may not wish to have another product line but what's holding back more options for components?
 
-Noodles said:
Since apple has now adopted intel processors I'm wondering about the hardware differences between macs and pcs. Maybe someone can elaborate.

If there are no longer barriers between the two then is it reasonable to assume we may see more hardware options for macs, particularly with respect to graphics cards in the future. What is keeping this at bay? I can understand why apple may not wish to have another product line but what's holding back more options for components?
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I believe the cost of making and maintaining drivers.

I think Apple wants to have full control over their line-up of products.
 
Pressure said:
I believe the cost of making and maintaining drivers.
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Perhaps you could elaborate on what goes into making a driver. I'm not familiar. I guess I never imagined them to be all that laborious since the file size/ download time is never that large/long.
 
-Noodles said:
Perhaps you could elaborate on what goes into making a driver. I'm not familiar. I guess I never imagined them to be all that laborious since the file size/ download time is never that large/long.
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Software/drivers is what makes hardware understand and interact with each other. It's very complex making a driver as it requires in-depth understanding of both the platform and the hardware.

Read more here :)
 
No waiting for me either.. There's no way I'm going to sit idle. :eek:

Anyways I know most of us who have been hanging out in this thread will be jumping in as soon as the MP Penryn is out.. and we can all celebrate!

Those that have a recent Tower or don't really use the full potential of a Mac Pro can afford to wait.. for Nehalem.

Like Topper said..
 
-Noodles said:
is it reasonable to assume we may see more hardware options for macs, particularly with respect to graphics cards in the future. What is keeping this at bay?
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A few months ago, Microsoft released a paper about GPU Hang Detection and Recovery in which they state that "Microsoft OCA data shows that 20 percent of all Windows crashes are due to GPU hardware hangs or instabilities and that the GPU is the largest device category reporting crashes (ahead of categories such as network adapters, hard drives, and USB cameras)".

It may well explain why Apple wants to keep a close control on what graphic cards are available and doesn't allow third parties as it would dramatically increase problems in OS X.
 
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