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8-core Mac Pro Hints at Apple UK

Toast 8 Will Use All 8 Cores From Day One

TheManOfSilver said:
I know that this is big news because it seems to be clear confirmation about a widely suspected update to the Mac Pro ... but I'm underwhelmed. I mean, 8-cores sounds really cool ... and usually a web site glitch like this only happens shortly before an actual launch (so we should all expect to see the update tomorrow or next Tuesday I guess) ... but I'd be a lot more excited if software existed that could truly put all 4 (or 8) cores to work in truly parallel fashion. As it is though, I think the necessary software won't be seen for quite some time yet.
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According to Toast 8 authors I spoke with at MacWorld, it will use all 8 cores from day one unless they need to make a change according to a change in the OS which they promised me they would do within days. While you may not find this interesting, I rip DVD Images - not media - all the time so it will speed my workflow up tremendously.
 
pricing

will the pricing of the quad core option decrease in price

also on the mac pro can i connect a 23 or 20 inch apple cinema display the the dual link port on the ATI Radion X1900 XT which is meant to connect to a 30 inch appple cinema display
 
Multimedia said:
According to Toast 8 authors I spoke with at MacWorld, it will use all 8 cores from day one unless they need to make a change according to a change in the OS which they promised me they would do within days.
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Well then ... maybe it is time for me to get excited 🙄

Seriously though ... I'd be more excited if the iMac got the low-power 4-core Xeons. There would have to be a performance boost over the notebook-class C2D if programs are truly being written to take advantage of multiple cores.
 
mrkramer said:
But would it be any more expensive than having it down to fix the mistake, putting it back up, taking it down again to update Mac Pros, and then after putting it back up, having to deal with more returns from people who bought Mac Pros during that short time it was back up?
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Not to mention the web development cost.

mrkramer said:
Don't we do that anyway when the store is down? I'm not sure about the dogs though.
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Less data is sent, I believe for the "Store is down" than the actual store. And, the actual store may be generated live by the server, taking processing time on the server, where as the "Store is down" should not take much at all.

I have my dog trained. 🙄
 
mac pro

on the mac pro can i connect a 23 or 20 inch apple cinema display the the dual link port on the ATI Radion X1900 XT 512 meg graphic card which is meant to connect to a 30 inch appple cinema display

someone please answer my question!!!!!

Thank you
 
diehardmacfan said:
on the mac pro can i connect a 23 or 20 inch apple cinema display the the dual link port on the ATI Radion X1900 XT 512 meg graphic card which is meant to connect to a 30 inch appple cinema display

someone please answer my question!!!!!

Thank you
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yes, you can connect any apple monitor to a mac pro
 
bdkennedy1 said:
I said it before, I'll say it again. You don't take down an entire web site to change a graphic!
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You do if you want to get the old graphic off the live page as soon as possible before a horde of Mac nuts visits but don't have your replacement readily accessible. 😀
 
time

apple has to be making some big changes to the store for it to take this long.

i remember when the macbooks were introduced they were creating whole new pages and it took less time

apple is making more changes that just the mac pro 8 core
 
diehardmacfan said:
apple has to be making some big changes to the store for it to take this long.

i remember when the macbooks were introduced they were creating whole new pages and it took less time

apple is making more changes that just the mac pro 8 core
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They could be changing to a different credit card processor, upgrading their order tracking system, or anything else.
 
Now I'm waiting for Leopard, a 64-bit version of Maya for OS X, and I'll be content for the moment. 3D Rendering is by far the most demanding thing I've subjected any of my comps too over the years. Video and PS, eh, they don't stress my CPUs out even remotely as much.

Some people don't know this, but AnandTech already put a couple of Clovertowns into the current MacPro and they worked just fine. OS X saw all 8-cores and this was under 10.4.7.

<]=)
 
bdkennedy1 said:
I said it before, I'll say it again. You don't take down an entire web site to change a graphic!
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Yeah, but you might if the site had been hacked, and you wanted to make sure the holes were patched properly before you put it back up.
 
stagi said:
an 8 core computer does sound pretty sweet but my good old dual g5 still works pretty great and is fast. I am sure these 8 core machines would scream but I can get another year or two out of mine.
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That PMG5 is going to have 5 year legs.

Rocketman
 
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