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Apple to Update Nearly Entire Mac Lineup at WWDC?
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Remember folks...
The slimmer they are, the hotter they are...you know what I mean
Also, Apple is not an Apple without Mac Pro...
That's not true because the hardware gets more efficient and therefore runs cooler. So you can get better performance in slimmer designs.
Very interesting. Actually looks pretty sick.
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Remember folks...
The slimmer they are, the hotter they are...you know what I mean
Yeah but let's stay on the subject. What about the new Mac Books?
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June 11th.
Buy one of the current models or a refurb if they don't deliver new Mac Pros. These are remarkable machines that still represent amazing value for money. Please don't go the illegal hackintosh route.
Totally agree, it wasn't much of a bump in the first place, which is why I ended up passing on it. I really have reached the end of the 1,1's useful life for non-server uses however. Don't get me wrong, it'll keep chugging along as a server for prolly a good 4-5 years more, but for running CS5+ it's just too slow.
This sounds about right. I may get an early 15" MBP when the 2012 models are out.
Just please don't go the illegal route. If you want to use OS X, you must use Apple hardware.
You can't be serious. No, really, you can not be serious.
$2,500 for an old, slow Xeon, 3GB of memory and a junk 3 year old GPU.
That's a $700 computer performance wise.
No, a $700 computer will come with twice as much memory, a faster i5 CPU
and a much better mid-range GPU.
If you're going to be absurd, you might as well go all in.
...Why does it matter to you so much? It sounds as if your life depends on him buying a genuine Mac.
He's right, the current Mac Pro is awful value for money.
Interesting, considering there's about 20 in the room I'm in, all 12 cores with 32 gbs of ram.
To everyone that thinks people should buy iMacs rather than Mac pros: just stop talking about stuff you don't understand.
It sounds like the current state of life now. Let's dumb it down. Everyone fits in this box.
No. Looking at the tests of new laptops with just new specs, shows that Laptops with Ivy Bridge and GPUs made in 28 nm Process are warmer than those with the Sandy Bridge and last year editions of those cards. More transistors per cm - more heat. Laws of physics. Only the High-end Asus gaming laptop runs cooler than last year, but they have bigger cooling system, which obviously, you can't pack in slimmer case.
Release date? June or July?
Ok Release date anyone?
With WWDC next week, how far out are the release dates?
Ok Release date anyone?
With WWDC next week, how far out are the release dates?
False. When you reduce a transistor's size you reduce both the voltage needed and the capacitance. Scale a transistor down by a factor of 2 and you reduce the power per transistor by a factor of 8. The power usage per unit area is therefore actually reduced by a factor of 2, not increased. Since you've reduced the power per unit area, you can then increase clocks speeds and still stay within the same power budget. This is the basic reason computers have gotten so much faster over the past few decades: more transistors at higher clock speeds without turning your desktop into a nuclear furnace.
I can't speak for Ivy Bridge temperatures, but chips with the same performance of Sandy Bridge have lower TDPs -- exactly as you'd expect with a move from 32nm to 22nm. And less power should mean less heat.
Good call, I wasn't even thinking about charisma, just obsessed over seeing some much needed Mac updates!
Apple tend to have macs available at the announcement date. The Mac Pro has generally been available to order and in stores at release. The 2010 models were delayed a while however. One thing the Mac Pro has suffered from in the past is that higher end graphics card options have seen increased delays. Mid July at the latest I would think based on the past and the ship dates for other E5 Xeon workstations.
I'm looking iMac not Mac pro. What about for that? What would the release ETAs look like for that?