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8-core Mac Pro Hints at Apple UK

MartyMoe said:
<Sean Connery accent> Be careful, Ryan. Some rumors in here don't react well to bullets.

-or-

Give me one core. One core only. </Sean Connery accent>


I always wanted to see Montana.....
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Skip Tyler (former Power Computing engineer): Big subuva%#$! What are those doors?

Mac Ryan: You don't miss much, do you? Too big to be a floppy drive. Could you launch a Blu-Ray disc horizontally?

Skip Tyler: Sure, but why would you want to...? You know, this could be an octo-core...

Mac Ryan: An octo-core?

Skip Tyler: An octo-core... It's like eight processors for your Mac... only it doesn't require case mods or water cooling, so it's very droolworthy.

Mac Ryan: Like how droolworthy?

Skip Tyler: It's doubtful our software would even detect it... and if it did, it'd think it was whales humping, or some sort of seismic anomaly... anything but the most powerful Mac ever made.

We messed with this stuff a couple of years ago... couldn't make it work.

They really built this...? This isn't a photoshop hoax...?

Mac Ryan: She was on the Apple Store search page this morning.

Skip Tyler: When I was little, I helped my daddy build a punch-card computer in our basement because some madman at IBM parked a couple of dozen transistor tubes 90 miles from the coast of Seattle. This thing could park a couple of gigaflops under a desk in New York or Washington and nobody would know about until it was too late... to stop me from playing Doom3.
 
[QUOTE=slicedbread;3440727]The Reality Distortion Field cannot be continually upheld if there is only one release date for us to argue over.

What on earth would happen to all the "waiting for leopard/santa rosa/iphone/8 core mac pro" threads?? This place would be BARREN![/QUOTE]


well... it's kinda like that Farside cartoon, where the caption says "In the days before television," and there is a family with their dog... and all of them are starring at the wall.

If I wasn't reading in forums because I wasn't waiting for new releases... I'd probably be actually be working on something creative... :)

Admit it... we are all sick!!!:eek:
 
soon

well the page has been repaired and no mention of 8 core Mac Pro's at present, but I agree that this error seems to indicate availability of these machines in the very near future, and wouldn't be surprised if this coinsides with the launch of Leopard, perhaps as a 'one more thing' item, or the one more thing item may be a revamped line up of portables, Macbook Pro's in a redesigned sexy new housing perhaps? :)
 
SeaFox said:
Seriously. I was about to ask if it was the poster's own theory or if he had read it somewhere. Even if Apple said it was hacked I don't think I'd believe them.
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so what you're saying is that no matter what it wasnt hacked lol personally i hope it was hacked because otherwise these sort of incompetent slips make a company look bad :( although being hacked would also show incompetence on the part of the company's securtiy or the brilliance of some hacker.Hacks or no hacks new mac pro next tuesday for the win!!
 
MacSamurai said:
so what you're saying is that no matter what it wasnt hacked lol
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It's the sort of stupid line I can see a PR dept trying to give. A practically guaranteed update to a company's product line is leaked on the company's online store, the graphic is in the same style, font, ect as the rest of the company's site, and the response is: it was just some hacker... there's no update imminent.. please continue buying our old wares. :rolleyes: Yeah, right.
 
sdhollman said:
but give us something, anything on Leopard and it's "new" features
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From WWDC page:

* Core Animation to add elegant animations to your application interface.
* iChat Theater to incorporate application content in iChat.
* QuickLook to provide system wide previews.
* 64-bit to leverage massive amounts of memory and wider processing paths.

You'll also learn how you can integrate with new Leopard technologies to add substantial new capabilities to your application. Integration with the new Scripting Bridge, Identity Services, iCal, iChat, and Address Book are discussed along with Sync Services, .Mac, and much more.

Some of the other session topics covered in the Leopard Innovations track include:

* Advanced WebKit Integration and working with Open Source WebKit.
* Developing Plug-Ins for Safari.
* Learning how the powerful built-in Sync Services syncing engine works.
* Using the .Mac SDK to share user data with Identity Services.
* Adding calendar support.
* Unlocking the power of Spotlight searching.
* Building scriptable applications.
 
I found an interesting spec today. I got Maya 8.5 (the new UB version) and I spent a little time today playing with it and reading about what's new. Maya 7 and 8 have a section for setting how many cpus Mental Ray (a renderer in Maya) will render to on the local machine. The highest was 4. Maya 8.5 goes up to 16 cpus. Normally this setting (maybe it's different now) is designed for just the cpus on the local machine, network rendering is a different issue.

A clue for things to come? :)


 
ATD said:
I found an interesting spec today. I got Maya 8.5 (the new UB version) and I spent a little time today playing with it and reading about what's new. Maya 7 and 8 have a section for setting how many cpus Mental Ray (a renderer in Maya) will render to on the local machine. The highest was 4. Maya 8.5 goes up to 16 cpus. Normally this setting (maybe it's different now) is designed for just the cpus on the local machine, network rendering is a different issue.

A clue for things to come? :)


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nope...it is for stuff like this.
 
The 8 Core Mac Pro Will Probably Be A Very Resonable Base of $3499

traderonline said:
it'd be great to have 8 cores. i will invest on that if the price is reasonable :)
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OK That's gonna be a perception thing. I'm thinking $3499 base which would be very reasonable. By the time it's loaded with 8GB of RAM (4x2GB sticks), Bluetooth? Oh Blu-ray™ DVD±RW and HDs I have already, it's gonna be about $5-6k. Does that seem reasonable to you?

To me it looks like a STEAL. There are others here who will disagree. But do you remember the Mac II FX? It was a 40MHz 68030 that sold from March 1990 to April 1992 for $10,970. Maximum RAM was 128MB. Maximum HD was 160MB - yes Megabytes on both.

So anyone who wants to complain about a loaded $5,000 or $6,000 8 core Mac Pro's price ought to take a historical look back at what weakling Macs cost back in the day before they put their foot in their mouth. :eek: ;)
Peace said:
I predict the 8-core will sell for $2799
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Now that's optimism with a bullet. :eek:
 
Multimedia said:
OK That's gonna be a perception thing. I'm thinking $3499 base which would be very reasonable. By the time it's loaded with 8GB of RAM (4x2GB sticks), Bluetooth DVD±RW and HDs I have already, it's gonna be about $5-6k. Does that seem reasonable to you?

To me it looks like a STEAL. There are others here who will disagree. But do you remember the Mac II FX? It was a 40MHz 68030 that sold from March 1990 to April 1992 for $10,970. Maximum RAM was 128MB. Maximum HD was 160MB - yes Megabytes on both.

So anyone who wants to complain about a loaded $5,000 or $6,000 8 core Mac Pro's price ought to take a historical look back at what weakling Macs cost back in the day before they put their foot in their mouth. :eek: ;)
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Gas was $1.09 a gallon in 1990 too.


I predict the 8-core will sell for $2799
 
Multimedia said:
OK That's gonna be a perception thing. I'm thinking $3499 base which would be very reasonable. By the time it's loaded with 8GB of RAM (4x2GB sticks), Bluetooth DVD±RW and HDs I have already, it's gonna be about $5-6k. Does that seem reasonable to you?

To me it looks like a STEAL. There are others here who will disagree. But do you remember the Mac II FX? It was a 40MHz 68030 that sold from March 1990 to April 1992 for $10,970. Maximum RAM was 128MB. Maximum HD was 160MB - yes Megabytes on both.
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Yes I do remember, and FTR it was "painfully" worth it at the time too. Kids today have it easy :)

Rocketman
 
Multimedia said:
OK That's gonna be a perception thing. I'm thinking $3499 base which would be very reasonable. By the time it's loaded with 8GB of RAM (4x2GB sticks), Bluetooth? Oh Blu-ray™ DVD±RW and HDs I have already, it's gonna be about $5-6k. Does that seem reasonable to you?

To me it looks like a STEAL. There are others here who will disagree. But do you remember the Mac II FX? It was a 40MHz 68030 that sold from March 1990 to April 1992 for $10,970. Maximum RAM was 128MB. Maximum HD was 160MB - yes Megabytes on both.

So anyone who wants to complain about a loaded $5,000 or $6,000 8 core Mac Pro's price ought to take a historical look back at what weakling Macs cost back in the day before they put their foot in their mouth. :eek: ;)Now that's optimism with a bullet. :eek:
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3-4k is my budget with maximum possible ram. of course the prices will decrease gradually within next few years.
 
You'll Still Do Well To Have The Base + 4GB (2x2GB)

traderonline said:
3-4k is my budget with maximum possible ram. of course the prices will decrease gradually within next few years.
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Knowing how Apple always ships minimum ram, I imagine they'll put two 1GB sticks in there as the base. We can add two 2GB sticks for around $535 now. So you should be able to keep it in budget with 6GB of RAM. I'll probably add 8GB for a total of 10GB in 6 of the 8 slots. I also want the Blu-ray™ DVD±RW drive.
 
Peace said:
Gas was $1.09 a gallon in 1990 too.
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Rocketman said:
And in 1999.
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:eek: :( :mad:

UK Government Statistics said:
In 1999 the average retail petrol price of petrol was about £3.46 per [imperial] gallon
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so in 1999 that'd be ~$6.10 per US gallon! (in todays dollars, more like $8.50)
today in the UK, petrol's about 94p/litre...(£4.50/gallon, £3.76/US gallon)

.....$7.50 per US gallon :eek: :eek: :eek:

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