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Mac OS 10.5.2, Mac Pro Update At Macworld?

mrbc19 said:
Even if a Mac Pro does not arrive? NO! It must! 😱

If the Mac Pro does not come Jan. 15, will it hold some sort of a record for being the product that has gone the longest without an update?
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The eMac hasn't had an update in a loooong time either. 😉😛
 
G4DP said:
Darth, resist the darkside you must. Easy, is the path to the darkside. Clear your mind. Focus your mind, your path has been chosen. 8 Core knight become you will.

I updated the drive in mine last year, I now have all three bays full. 360GB, what a massive amount of storage.

1st as bootable,
2nd for storage
3rd as my own time machine. Nothing wrong with doing it manually if you ask me.

I hope the old thing lasts, i'm going to keep it as an extra form of back up.
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Hahaha, yea, I'm definitely gonna wait. It has to come on or before Jan. 15. If the G4 dies before then, which it will, I'll just suffer and use my MacBook for the time being. The thing is probably faster when it comes to editing too.
 
chameleon said:
Sounds like one of the most reasonable theories we've heard so far. Nothing too outlandish, but all plausible.
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I would have to agree....I'm also guessing there is going to some kind of update concerning the thousands of 13.3 LED's apple has been ordering.....
 
Brendon Bauer said:
I have this slight feeling that you know what's going to happen. If I remember correctly, you've stated your "opinion" before and it came out to be true. You must have sources 🙄
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He didn't breach his NDA. 🙂

I have no NDA. 10.5.2 is the OS for newbies to buy a CPU with. 10.5.0 was a public beta as I have said for a year or so, turned out to be all too true.

10.5.1 was a bug fix of a beta, but 10.5.2 is barely ready for prime time. I would wait for 10.5.3 for grandma.

I for one am looking forward to the hardware announcements at Macworld, but expect to see a lot of OS and software announcements. If you have paid close attention to Apple announcements for the past couple of months, the sheer number of hardware, software, services, and retail projects going on, indicates most of their thousands of employees are themselves multi-tasking!

Rocketman
 
We need 10.5.2 now. My Nikon D300 needs the update to be recognized by Aperture. Those with the Nikon D3 also need the update.
 
G4DP said:
WHO GIVES A POO ABOUT A ULTRA PORTABLE!. YOU CAN'T ACTUALLY DO ANY SERIOUS WORK ON A SCREEN THAT'S 13", SO WHY THE HELL DO YOU WANT SOMETHING SMALLER. WHY IS IT TOO BIG? IS IT TOO HEAVY FOR YOU TO CARRY. WELL BE A MAN AND GROW SOME. GOD GAVE YOU MUSCLES FOR A REASON. SO GET OF YOUR LARD A$$'$ AND USE THEM.
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I've been thinking this too.
I hear people crying for a 'professional' sub-notebook. What kind of serious professional can be done on a 12" screen with no optical drive?


But if 10.5.2 is at MW, sounds like a good time to ask for Leopard of X-mas 😀
 
G4DP said:
I updated the drive in mine last year, I now have all three bays full. 360GB, what a massive amount of storage.
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Jesus, on a workstation? I think I have more than that in iPods 🙂 I'm not even a pro but a Photoshop project I was working on a couple weeks ago built up a 30-40GB scratch file very, very quickly and the image itself was over 4GB.

It's funny. I remember getting my first computer and never filling up its 400 MB hard drive. Today I started building a 8x500GB RAID-5 array and 3.5TB(er, 3.2TB... damn 10^9 vs. 2^30) actually seems a bit small to me.
 
CD and DVD's have some use

I keep anything finished on CD or DVD. I have become very good at backing up. Haven't lost anything in what seems like an age.

Must be at least 4 hours.
 
It all sounds very reasonable.

The only way we would see a "discount" quad core machine is they release a machine with a single quad core chip (like some of the G5 setups) Its possible...
 
G4DP said:
WHO GIVES A POO ABOUT A ULTRA PORTABLE!. YOU CAN'T ACTUALLY DO ANY SERIOUS WORK ON A SCREEN THAT'S 13", SO WHY THE HELL DO YOU WANT SOMETHING SMALLER. WHY IS IT TOO BIG? IS IT TOO HEAVY FOR YOU TO CARRY. WELL BE A MAN AND GROW SOME. GOD GAVE YOU MUSCLES FOR A REASON. SO GET OF YOUR LARD A$$'$ AND USE THEM.
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Seriously! I can't understand the weird fetish some people have with a "sub-ultra think notebook". Like they seriously orgasm at the thought of a tablet. No optical drive? Less than 12" screen? And you want it to be "professional" too?? HA. What the crap do you intend to do with it? I mean is the 13" MacBook not small enough?? What's the point? It's not like you'd get a dedicated graphics card with it. If anything the specs would be lower than the MacBook's.

I get the feeling that it's these same people that get a hard at SSD and think a 64GB SSD would be "plenty". "Professional" and "64GB" should not be put in the same sentence.
 
So pretty much another, stating the bleeding obvious "rumor"

seriously though if apple doesn't release a update to the mac pro will there be any professional people left who will actually take apple seriously?!
 
MacsRgr8 said:
Eh.. Page 2??

Wouldn't this rumor be about the most anticipated hardware update since August 2006?

But.... I am waiting for this baby!! 😎
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darthraige said:
I know, right? It's like it disappeared off the grid.
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It's Page2 because I don't have a lot of confidence in the accuracy of the report. But we're keeping tabs on any news of the Mac Pro, and we'll let you know accordingly.
 
Schtumple said:
So pretty much another, stating the bleeding obvious "rumor"

seriously though if apple doesn't release a update to the mac pro will there be any professional people left who will actually take apple seriously?!
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I would have thought it would be released before MacWorld.
Kick start sales for the new year, Pro Machines can be launched anytime of year they don't really need an event.
 
Apple should also rename DVD Studio Pro, as the January expected update should bring support for playing and burning BD media; the name could be Disk Studio Pro.
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Hopefully 10.5.2 will include an updated DVD Player with HD DVD playback support.
 
Nermal said:
Hopefully 10.5.2 will include an updated DVD Player with HD DVD playback support.
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Disk Studio Pro just doesn't sound right. Not to mention, it should be disk, those are disc.

If Apple drops Blu-ray drive into its' product, there should be a playback software with the update.
 
Stridder44 said:
Seriously! I can't understand the weird fetish some people have with a "sub-ultra think notebook". Like they seriously orgasm at the thought of a tablet. No optical drive? Less than 12" screen? And you want it to be "professional" too?? HA. What the crap do you intend to do with it? I mean is the 13" MacBook not small enough?? What's the point? It's not like you'd get a dedicated graphics card with it. If anything the specs would be lower than the MacBook's.

I get the feeling that it's these same people that get a hard at SSD and think a 64GB SSD would be "plenty". "Professional" and "64GB" should not be put in the same sentence.
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Well I'd consider myself a professional and I use a MacBook with only 60GB in use. I wouldn't be so quick to say that you need a bazillion gigabytes to be considered a professional. Plus smaller == more portable. I'd love to have a smaller MacBook that I could take more places with me and work on the go.

floam said:
Bull. Apple doesn't use the Intel compiler. They use GCC. They haven't stopped using GCC. They need to build PowerPC binaries too, and you can make a universal mach-o image out of a ICC-built x86_64 binary and GCC-built PPC one. No way they've stopped using XCode or change Xcode up this much post-release, either. GCC can support SSE4 just fine on its own.
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I'm lost. What does Xcode have to do with this? Xcode is just the IDE. GCC is the actual compiler Xcode uses. They could easily swap out GCC for the Intel compiler. Now I don't know really anything about the Intel compiler's capabilities but I'd think they could build the kernel with it and get some improvements out of the Intel machines.
 
floam said:
Bull. Apple doesn't use the Intel compiler. They use GCC. They haven't stopped using GCC. They need to build PowerPC binaries too, and you can make a universal mach-o image out of a ICC-built x86_64 binary and GCC-built PPC one. No way they've stopped using XCode or change Xcode up this much post-release, either. GCC can support SSE4 just fine on its own.
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Xcode supports multiple compiler backends. You can install Intel compilers and have Xcode use it. Xcode is not a compiler, it's an IDE. The advantage of Intel compilers are obvious, they produce faster binaries than GCC.

GCC 4.3 supports SSE4. It is not officially out as stable, but that didn't stop Apple from releasing GCC 4.0 for Tiger before GCC 4.0 was officially out as stable.
 
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