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8-core Mac Pro Hints at Apple UK

Bobthemonkey said:
All of the Euro stores are down.

Maybe the updates are automatic and someone ballsed up the time, prehaps due to the recent change in US DST hours. Octo-core out tomorrow, shipping at NAB, with free upgrade to 10.5 in 30 days time, with a special event at shipping(again NAB) revealing the special features and highlighting the Octo-power. Pro announcement at a pro event, especially if some of the hidden features are targeted towards efficiency and compatibility (?FS-the new file system) rather than eye-candy.
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That would be cool.
 
Garraaaggg!!

Does anyone remember if the quad core chips are drop-in replacements for the dual cores currently shipping?

My dumbass can't remember or find the thread… sorry
 
OK... SO... 8-core gets released tomorrow, the rush of pent-up demands sees a big wave of purchases, the machines get shipped with Tiger.

Then, 30 days later, when that first wave of buyers can no longer threaten to return their Tiger-loaded machines, Leopard gets released and they all have to pay to upgrade - all for the privilege of being the first kid on the block with 8 cores.

C'mon, we all knew this was how it was going to play out - new hardware and a new, must-have OS never get released within the same 30 days.

Personally, I'm hanging on for the software.
 
j_maddison said:
You're forgetting that its currently 4:29pm in California at the moment.....
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And? Because of course everything runs out of California. That would be silly. Decisions are made in California, things in Europe happen in Europe. You think its a good time of the day (or night, even) to release a new product? Near enough the middle of the night in most of Europe right now, great time to get people looking and buying...
 
Markleshark said:
So I wonder why the store doesn't go down for things like that to get up there, but it does to take them away again... hmmm...
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It's called panic: the apple UK site got more sites in the past hour than it usually gets in a month. The internal search engine just used more than it usually does in a year.

Somewhere, an alarm went off and a bunch of Apple employees, who thought they were about to whizz home on their Segways to the warm embrace of their Tivos, now have to spend all night figuring out what's happening and hoping they're not the ones who will get fired for this.
 
Who cares about what operating system it ships with? If you've got $3000+ for a decently geared out 8-core Mac Pro, I think you can scrounge up the ~$150 to upgrade when they release OS X 10.5.
 
Markleshark said:
And? Because of course everything runs out of California. That would be silly. Decisions are made in California, things in Europe happen in Europe. You think its a good time of the day (or night, even) to release a new product? Near enough the middle of the night in most of Europe right now, great time to get people looking and buying...
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That's not how American corporations work, especially not Apple; Cupertino tightly controls everything, it always has.
 
Donnacha said:
Leopard gets released and they all have to pay to upgrade - all for the privilege of being the first kid on the block with 8 cores.
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We should all make some big open-letter to Steve: we want 10.5 for free if you orderd something with an intel :p (just to say thank you for the last year and all the trouble you guys had with the MacBetaooks's).

Saves steve a lot of support on 10.4 :p
 
Markleshark said:
And? Because of course everything runs out of California. That would be silly. Decisions are made in California, things in Europe happen in Europe. You think its a good time of the day (or night, even) to release a new product? Near enough the middle of the night in most of Europe right now, great time to get people looking and buying...
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No I don't, but there is no reason why a website needs to be run from Europe when it can be updated from a central location. it wouldn't surpise me if all of Apple's websites were updated from the USA, but then again they might not be. My point is still valid though, I doubt there is an IT team in the UK that stays awake to do website updates in the middle of the night.
 
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