8-Core Mac Pros have arrived.

[Westsider 4 Mac]

Interesting...

... as hardware will continue to suffer until the new OS is ready...

 

[Lord Nerdos]

Nerdos Speaks


In the words of Marvin Gaye, "What's going on?"

First an 8-core that seriously underwhelms... Seaburg and his friend Stoakley no where in sight... and then a Leopard that refuses to come out of its cage...

Nerdos weeps! His heart is an open wound!

However there may be light around the corner... maybe...

April 22nd brings intel price cuts followed by further cuts in July

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=6493

We are looking at serious price cuts for quad-core processors. Nerdos assumes there will a delay before such price cuts filter through to you puny Earthling consumers!
But perhaps by August we will see an all 8-core mac pro line-up at prices similar to the Woodcrest offerings of today.

AND... if each octo-core were to contain in its box, not a golden ticket to Wonka's factory, but something almost as good... a free upgrade to Leopard...

Then Nerdos will rejoice!

 

[BiikeMike]

After this weekend, I may just cave in and buy a Quad now. Maybe it is the best option for the money.

I'm with you there.....

 

[RUAerospace]

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/intel/showdoc.aspx?i=2963&p=6
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2112086,00.asp
http://www.techreport.com/reviews/2007q2/core2-qx6800/index.x?pg=8

I think you guys should look at more benchmarks before jumping to conclusions. Octocore delivers substantially better performance in the vast majority of professional applications (in this case including Photoshop CS3) which as it stands, should be the only real reason you would buy one.

 

[Multimedia]

None Of Those Benchmarks Are Related To The 8 Core Mac Pro

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/intel/showdoc.aspx?i=2963&p=6
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2112086,00.asp
http://www.techreport.com/reviews/2007q2/core2-qx6800/index.x?pg=8

I think you guys should look at more benchmarks before jumping to conclusions. Octocore delivers substantially better performance in the vast majority of professional applications (in this case including Photoshop CS3) which as it stands, should be the only real reason you would buy one.

While there are many other "real" reasons to buy one, all of those articles have nothing to do with the 8 core Mac Pro.

 

[RUAerospace]

While there are many other "real" reasons to buy one, all of those articles have nothing to do with the 8 core Mac Pro.

Besides the obvious fact that those articles review machines that utilize the same processor as the Mac Pro and would probably be used under the same circumstance. At the very least it gets rid of the clueless notion that the octocore platform (with or without stoakley-seasburg) underperforms on a hardware basis.

 

[Umbongo]

Besides the obvious fact that those articles review machines that utilize the same processor as the Mac Pro and would probably be used under the same circumstance. At the very least it gets rid of the clueless notion that the octocore platform (with or without stoakley-seasburg) underperforms on a hardware basis.

Those are desktop quadcore chips, only useable in a single configuration. They aren't Xeons nor are they using a workstation platform.