YA G5 PPC'er still in "Wait" mode...
The Pro is likely to be a major update. If not a lot of people will be rightfully upset. The iMac is a much more difficult guess.
Due to the lack of hardware for a significant update i'm think a more modest update than what will be seen on the Pro. However there are big questions to be had here, both AMD and Intel have been very quiet about new product releases. I would not be surprised to see Apple team up with either company to promote exclusive availability of xyz chip on a Mac platform. If not exclusive simply being involve in a new Apple hardware introduction is a marketing windfall.
There's more to updates than just the CPU. I could envision the Mac Pro getting a heavy hitting GPU so as to be able to showcase the potential of Grand Central.
..of course, this pretty much presumes that Adobe CS
5.1 existed to exploit it in such a showcase ...
The good thing here is that we are likely talking only weeks before the big intro. So hang tight.
Unfortunately, been waiting on "weeks" for ... let see: 510 days minus 236 equals 274 days above the average =
39 weeks after the average update delay.
No real benefit for SSD to appear on a consumer desktop AIO. Laptops and servers maybe, desktops other than heat, noise, power consumption it would add too much of a cost for the inclusion. A BTO maybe, however I do not see it as a popular option, only bragging rights for those who really care.
YMMV. Particularly from the perspective of what the enthusiasts have already been doing, I could very well see a nice performance bump to occur by simply moving OS X's boot partition off of its conventional HDD and onto a small SSD. Realistically, it wouldn't have to be all that big (just fast), which would keep costs managble...and FWIW, I'd roll it out in both the Mac Pro as well as the iMac. Combined with some GPU horsepower for Grand Central, this could really shift the game.
That's exactly my story 🙂 The G5's still usable for a lot of things while I use a PC as well for more demanding tasks. But I started doing video editing lately and it's painful to do it on the G5...
I've moved up to 1080p video on my photography, which is why a Mac Pro has been on my "To Do" list to replace my venerable G5 PowerMac for several months now.
However, its hard to justify dropping that much change on a hobby machine when its still stuck with Firewire800, particularly since
Symwave’s FirePHY-1600 chip samples have been available since 2008 (2+ years) and at an estimated chip cost of under $5/unit, and with probably a similar story for FW3200. I don't really feel all that enthralled to buy a home machine that is likely to be obsolete overnight ... and its not that I don't know what a Mac Pro can do (I have one at work).
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releases the updates.
