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8-Core Mac Pro In January? Displays Too?

I'm starting to get kind of angry/worried with Apple. They usually roll out upgrades like clockwork, and we haven't seen anything new ON THE MARKET from them in quite a while. :apple: TV, delayed, :apple: iPhone, not even planned to come out for almost 6 mos after it was unveiled. New Pro computers? No one has any idea. New OS? Again, no one has any idea.

Their advertising campaign just gave everyone false hopes about 2007 so far. We are almost a quarter into the year, and we have gotten....... multi colored iPods??

All i'm saying is they better drop a bomb soon, because they seem to be falling behind. I've got my money saved for a new desktop and screen(s), but i'm pretty dissapointed we haven't seen anything about them. They unveiled the damn iPhone 6 mos early, why can't they give us a bone and at least give us a timeframe for new machines or 10.5?
 
Gateway FPD2485W 24" Widescreen High-Definition LCD Flat-Panel Display Looks Better

elbirth said:
wow, that sounds like a really cool setup! When I first saw the Mac Pros announced and saw that I could get 2 video cards directly from Apple and have hookups for 4 displays, I immediately considered four 24" displays... however, I like the idea of having it more uniform on either side of me (one in the center with one on either side... I could go with five displays, but having 2 on either side would be a bit much :p )

The 24" Dell is an awesome monitor and seems to be the sweet spot for comfort level for me. The 30" is great, but feels a bit too big for my daily work, which is internet-based. Right now my 15" MBP screen and 24" Dell are both completely full for 8 hours a day with almost no desktop showing through (I have 4 Firefox windows--each with anywhere from 3-10+ tabs--, a chat window, textedit, and Soulver (calculator) showing at all times because these are the necessities for my job. Having 3 screens would help me feel MUCH less cramped, but right now I'm thinking having a fourth would just be overkill and not get used enough to warrant the cost.

Of course, that's subject to change once I have the 3-screen setup running :D
I'd love a 30" for when I'm post processing photographs, but for the time being that's just a hobby.
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Just discovered the Gateway FPD2485W 24" Widescreen High-Definition LCD Flat-Panel Display tonight. This may be a better choice than the Dell now.
 
BiikeMike said:
I'm starting to get kind of angry/worried with Apple. They usually roll out upgrades like clockwork, and we haven't seen anything new ON THE MARKET from them in quite a while. :apple: TV, delayed, :apple: iPhone, not even planned to come out for almost 6 mos after it was unveiled. New Pro computers? No one has any idea. New OS? Again, no one has any idea.

Their advertising campaign just gave everyone false hopes about 2007 so far. We are almost a quarter into the year, and we have gotten....... multi colored iPods??

All i'm saying is they better drop a bomb soon, because they seem to be falling behind. I've got my money saved for a new desktop and screen(s), but i'm pretty dissapointed we haven't seen anything about them. They unveiled the damn iPhone 6 mos early, why can't they give us a bone and at least give us a timeframe for new machines or 10.5?
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I feel the same way about this, leaving us all Mac users with no idea about Leopard, iWork & iLife '07 was pretty dissapointing to some, myself at least. I remember when they used to release iPods every other week, and iMacs too. Mac Mini's haven't gotten an update in...what, a year? They're stretching the time between updates, and I hope this is good.

My girlfriend's rationale is that this (what Apple is doing) is marketing itself, by NOT doing any marketing..oxymoron?
 
Your Girlfriend's A Genius Ortuno

ortuno2k said:
I feel the same way about this, leaving us all Mac users with no idea about Leopard, iWork & iLife '07 was pretty dissapointing to some, myself at least. I remember when they used to release iPods every other week, and iMacs too. Mac Mini's haven't gotten an update in...what, a year? They're stretching the time between updates, and I hope this is good.

My girlfriend's rationale is that this (what Apple is doing) is marketing itself, by NOT doing any marketing..oxymoron?
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Your girlfriend's a genius. It won't be much longer. By summer the whole line will have been refreshed. :)
 
T-Minus 35 Days And Counting

Well gang it's down to the last stretch now. We've got our daylight savings time, our April 15th Apple press conference scheduled and our Wednesday April 18 Sixth Annual FCPUG Venetian Hotel SuperMeet tickets on sale now. I'm remaining skeptical Leopard will be shipping before May or even June. But that's mostly so I can be pleasantly surprised if it happens sooner. ;) Are we having fun telling anyone who will listen that we're gonna get an 8 core Mac Pro and they should too? Only thing keeping me from going stir crazy is the new Sony HDR-HC7 HDV camcorder I'm in love with. Been busy feeding that thread I started a month ago that's become a run away hit in the Digital Video section of Special Interests with 174 posts and over 8,500 views. :)

What's everyone else doing to keep their minds off the 8 core anticipation? :eek:
 
Multimedia said:
What's everyone else doing to keep their minds off the 8 core anticipation? :eek:
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Hypnotherapy and Prozac.

8}

...getting the same fever I experienced whilst waiting for my Dual 2.5 G5 nearly 3 years ago - twitchy and checking the Apple store and here for updates that never happen!...
 
Multimedia said:
What's everyone else doing to keep their minds off the 8 core anticipation? :eek:
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I read the 33 pages of the Mac Pro arrived thread, and keep s******ing everytime I see "100% sure 8 core Mac Pro in January" quotes by Multimedia.
 
I'm Not 100% Sure When But 100% Sure This Year

pknz said:
I read the 33 pages of the Mac Pro arrived thread, and keep s******ing everytime I see "100% sure 8 core Mac Pro in January" quotes by Multimedia.
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I was 100% sure it would be January until I read this in November. Would you mind posting a link to the post please? I'm no longer 100% sure of when - only hoping April 15 not sure. In November I gave up being 100% sure of any date. But I am now 100% sure it will be by September and 99% sure sooner. :) Isn't that conservative enough?
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Spectrum 48k vs Commodore 64... Imagine the power...

How many more days to go..?
I live in fear that the octo-cores are not going to be out before June:eek: ... These mac pros have even started to make appearances in my dreams. April 4th? That date was in my dream... Could it be???:p
Anyway, what is for sure is that we will all look back fondly on our time waiting for these all powerful machines to appear - once we have them in our hands.
And some day in the future we shall tell children of how we debated whether anyone needed the power of an 8 core system, in much the same way as we debated whether anyone really needed all the power of a Commodore 64 vs the Spectrum 48k back in the good old days of sprites:D .
And those children will laugh until tears roll down their cherubic faces as they run off with their handheld gaming systems powered by something that will gigaflop more than any of today's supercomputers...
So that's how I'm passing the time until our beloved mac pro updates - whimsical musings;)
 
Shaker said:
Just to add more fuel to the new Mac Pro rumors:

http://news.google.com/nwshp?oe=UTF-...14283445&hl=en
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I think that's a bad link, it doesn't point to anything but headlines. :( I did a search though on "Mac Pro" in google news and they had a link to Macworld talking about Apple using a more engery efficient Xeon processor. Is that what you were mentioning?

Also is it me or did this thread get bumped to a page 1 rumour? I could have sworn it's been page 2 for months.
 
Raid said:
I think that's a bad link, it doesn't point to anything but headlines. :( I did a search though on "Mac Pro" in google news and they had a link to Macworld talking about Apple using a more engery efficient Xeon processor. Is that what you were mentioning?

Also is it me or did this thread get bumped to a page 1 rumour? I could have sworn it's been page 2 for months.
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Its unlikely we will see the low power Xeons on the Mac Pro, they make more sense on the high density servers.
 
Good catch!

When I saw the post, I thought for sure it was a Photoshop markup, but then I tried the search myself at the UK web site and sure enough the quoted text referring to 8-core Macs is there!
Multimedia said:
So it might be tomorrow 'cause it's a Tuesday.
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Man, an update is so welcome right now. I really need to replace my G4 dual 1 Ghz PowerMac. Can't wait... :D
 
That 8-Core Hint At Apple UK Thread Lacks Substance

I like this thread much better because it has a lot of informational nutrition in it. The new one's 408 posts are all fluff and puff with little to no information about what 8-cores are good for. Anyone want to join me back here? :)
 
My Bad. End Of April Looks Like The Soonest We Can Hope For Product To Go On Sale

patrick0brien said:
-Multimedia

Still here.

Hear anything resulting from the premature posting in the UK last night?
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That thread for the UK goof-up is just a bunch of whiners who don't have a clue why we need 8 core Mac Pros and are in no position to buy one even if they did. I may have inadvertantly caused that thread by posting the screen shot above when I shouldn't have due to my ignorance about a rule here I am not at liberty to explain.

In any event, things are looking more like we won't have more info until the Adobe March 27th CS3 event and of course the Apple April 15 NAB press conference. Even then it's looking like end of April as the soonest anything will begin to be available for purchase. I'm certainly not going to buy anything that doesn't include Leopard and iLife '07 on-board are you?
 
Multimedia said:
I'm certainly not going to buy anything that doesn't include Leopard and iLife '07 on-board are you?
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-Multimedia

Well, I actually need two of these things.

Scary huh?

I've been needing one for a main home workgroup server, as well as 3D renterserver and FCP machine. If you look at my sig, you'll see the Quicksilver. That's what I have now. Not only has it hit the wall, but has buried itself about 3 feet into it at this point.

Now, Pythagoras, my Music is heading south, G5 iMac Rev A. It's the board.

So here's the plan. I'll get the Rev. B LAG 8-core with Leopard Server, 8gb RAM and, and live on that as the workstation and server. Then, six months later, probably at Rev C, buy another LAG 8-core. I'll replace the Rev B with the Rev C, move the Rev B. machine to the studio, swap the drives, and bingo. Seamless upgrade.

So yes, I'm waiting with severe interest.

And yes, fully intend to use the Server's XGrid features.
 
Hey multimedia, I'm still here too :)

I'm waiting fo the updates too, I really need a new computer, and I would buy a Mac Pro now, but knowing my luck, they would release the new ones the next day.

I just started my own lighting design, photography, and production business, and I NEED the power of a Mac Pro with the UB of CS3 to do the stuff I do. I could not be more excited about the March 27th event unless they suprise us all and say they are going to be shipping the week after the event :)

I am not sure if I will need the octa-core Mac Pro, but i'd like to have it as an option. I'd also like to see what other little bumps they give the other machines, hopefully video cards :D After they announce the new machines, I'll probably wait for the benchmarks in CS3, LightRoom, FCP, and a few other programs I use to decide if I should go for the quad or octo.
 
HDMI May Be The New FireWire

I'm not making a prediction. But I won't be surprised if the next Mac Pros all have HDMI i/o built in. In fact this may be a new and consistent feature of all the 2007 post Leopard Mac refreshes. The new upcoming not quite yet shipping Panasonic AG-HSC1U 1/4" 3-CCD 16:9 AVCHD PROLINE™ Camcorder with HDMI Interface and 40GB SD Store Drive is coming out of the Broadcast/Business division and it has no FireWire port.

This is the first AVCHD camcorder I've seen that looks promising. It's tiny like an HC7 and yet it's got 3 1/4" CCDs and lists for only $2099. This kind of product may dictate either Apple puts HDMI i/o on all next gen Macs OR the Blackmagic Design Intensity PCIe cards are going to be selling like hotcakes.

Not predicting. But if it happens you can say you read it here first. :p

Link to Camcorderinfo.com's First Impression from February 5th. Boy did they ever manage to hide that well.
 
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