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Waiting for Sandy Bridge

In all Honesty nobody will never have the fastest or lastest Mac Pro, you just have to get used to it either your waiting for Nehalem or any other processor chips how fast do you really need to run your apps?, is 2-3% faster is that much greater come on that's nothing, if the next Nehalem Mac Pro is going to be 50% faster or better yet 100% faster then the current Mac Pro then that's a different story but most cases it's like 2-3% faster is really not that big of a deal, I say get one know and start enjoying it
 
The comparison benchmarks smash the current line up by a huge margin, on immature boards. The margin will only get bigger as the boards improve.
 
m1stake said:
The comparison benchmarks smash the current line up by a huge margin, on immature boards. The margin will only get bigger as the boards improve.
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Everyone wants the latest after Nehalem Mac Pro comes out, Apple is not going to stop making them, it just going to get better and faster down the road, i've played the waiting game for the Mac Pro when it first came out 1 year waiting and believe me it wasn't fun not having a computer during that time but if you must have the latest January is not that far off but like I said previously there not going to be that big of the difference between the current Mac Pro, it might be 2-3% faster but that's no reason to hold off in buying one now, and who knows now that Apple has there own processor chips many things can happen and change in the future.
 
skyline r34 said:
Everyone wants the latest after Nehalem Mac Pro comes out, Apple is not going to stop making them, it just going to get better and faster down the road, i've played the waiting game for the Mac Pro when it first came out 1 year waiting and believe me it wasn't fun not having a computer during that time but if you must have the latest January is not that far off but like I said previously there not going to be that big of the difference between the current Mac Pro, it might be 2-3% faster but that's no reason to hold off in buying one now, and who knows now that Apple has there own processor chips many things can happen and change in the future.
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It's like for example the current Mac Pro's they have one 2.8Ghz, Two 2.8Ghz Quad-Core, Two 3.0Ghz Quad-Core and a Two 3.2GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon chips and most of the people here on MacRumors forums owns the 2.8GHz 8-Core Mac Pro, Why didn't they choose the 3.2Ghz it much faster then the 2.8 model because there's not really that much of a difference in speed wise, My point is how much faster do you need your apps to run, if the Nehalem Mac Pro are going to be 50-100% faster then the current Mac Pro then I will understand on waiting for the new Mac Pro but it's not I say tops 5X faster or less but are you really going to notice that big of a difference Honesty.
 
Nehalem Mac Pros look lke they will offer a significant performance boost in a number of areas. For most people it's not about getting the highest performance, they are just looking to get a Mac Pro. As you say, most get the standard config, I would think it probably accounts for over 90% of sales.

Faster computing can always be used though, and when you can get a 20-50% increase depending on task just by waiting a few months on a system you might use for many years it can be worth it.

It's looking like it will be as significant a chance as going from the G5 to Mac Pro in terms of features across the board. Well except graphics cards of course, it is Apple afterall.
 
Granted, the performance increase is pretty substantial, but will we be paying extra for that speed bump? Will Apple be able to keep the same price points or will they need to raise them?
 
The thing was I'm selling my current mac pro to my dad to get a new one. I can get a decent amount for this one and it makes the new mac pro quite cheap to purchase but I'd really only go for the quad core cause of how much I'd use it and cost. I was all set to get one pretty soon but reading about the increase in speed the new cores will offer I may actually wait. Im sure I can still sell this mac pro to my dad when the latest one comes out because he doesn't need any of it's speed at all really. I don't really want to get a quad 2.8Ghz now when a much faster system might be out in a few months time and may even allow for me to get the 8 core at the same price. So I think I'm going to wait now.

Well if it was that simple to decide.. Im still not sure.
 
skyline r34 said:
Everyone wants the latest after Nehalem Mac Pro comes out, Apple is not going to stop making them, it just going to get better and faster down the road, i've played the waiting game for the Mac Pro when it first came out 1 year waiting and believe me it wasn't fun not having a computer during that time but if you must have the latest January is not that far off but like I said previously there not going to be that big of the difference between the current Mac Pro, it might be 2-3% faster but that's no reason to hold off in buying one now, and who knows now that Apple has there own processor chips many things can happen and change in the future.
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Did you miss the part where I said that they were much faster in tests comparing the current generation to the next (Nehalem)? As far as waiting goes I do agree with you, but as I have a G4 that is working, I will be fine holding out for it. 5 months of playing choppy YouTube videos is not a reason to cave.
 
skyline r34 said:
...it might be 2-3% faster but that's no reason to hold off in buying one now, and who knows now that Apple has there own processor chips...
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Add a zero to both of those for Nehalem at lower power than current chips and add a zero and multiply by two for Nehalem clocked the same as current chips.

So in essence, 20-30% faster for lower power draw and around 50% better for the same draw.

And Apple's "chips" are sure as HECK not for anything other than the iPods.
 
Maximono said:
The thing was I'm selling my current mac pro to my dad to get a new one. I can get a decent amount for this one and it makes the new mac pro quite cheap to purchase but I'd really only go for the quad core cause of how much I'd use it and cost. I was all set to get one pretty soon but reading about the increase in speed the new cores will offer I may actually wait. Im sure I can still sell this mac pro to my dad when the latest one comes out because he doesn't need any of it's speed at all really. I don't really want to get a quad 2.8Ghz now when a much faster system might be out in a few months time and may even allow for me to get the 8 core at the same price. So I think I'm going to wait now.

Well if it was that simple to decide.. Im still not sure.
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You're not really thinking about "ripping" your dad off, are you?
 
Tallest Skil said:
Add a zero to both of those for Nehalem at lower power than current chips and add a zero and multiply by two for Nehalem clocked the same as current chips.

So in essence, 20-30% faster for lower power draw and around 50% better for the same draw.

And Apple's "chips" are sure as HECK not for anything other than the iPods.
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If you say it's that much faster then I'll just buy a high-end MacBook Pro Nehalem if the laptop are getting intel chips next year, and when ever Sandy Bridge is release that's when I'll buy my next Mac Pro, good luck for those who are waitng it's not that far off.

I'll leave you with this when the Nehalem Mac Pro arrives like all computer it will get old and about this time next year people are going to talk about the next Mac Pro, it will never end, Just start enjoying using your computer, life is short.
 
I mean come on, might as well wait for the 32nm Sandy Bridge (what kind of code name is that? anyway...). :p In all seriousness though, the self-overclocking feature of the Core i7/Nehalem sounds pretty swanky and might be worth waiting for (not on its own, but with the other improvements that will accompany the Nehalem Mac Pros) unless you need a faster computer now.

Maximono said:
The thing was I'm selling my current mac pro to my dad to get a new one.
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What do you use your Mac Pro for, and what advantage will you see out of upgrading? My thoughts are that if you have to ask if an upgrade is worth it, then maybe it isn't. If you're upgrading just because you want to, my advice would be to wait for Nehalem.
 
UltraNEO* said:
I take it most users here don't have the mental initiative to go search
on google for alternative results... or some other search engine, hence "inq" but what do I know? and do i care even?
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I read it because I know how to get the details out being that I come from the land of the redtop (english tabloid). I would think most articles posted from it here are people getting links to articles from tech news aggregators (other tech sites have no problem citing it). I'm not sure where this hostility to the inquirer comes from, sure the writing style is one most people aren't used to on a tech site, but they clearly differentiate between rumour and fact.
 
Umbongo said:
I read it because I know how to get the details out being that I come from the land of the redtop (english tabloid). I would think most articles posted from it here are people getting links to articles from tech news aggregators (other tech sites have no problem citing it). I'm not sure where this hostility to the inquirer comes from, sure the writing style is one most people aren't used to on a tech site, but they clearly differentiate between rumour and fact.
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Perhaps a John Edwards fan?
 
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