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?
The eMac hasn't had an update in a loooong time either.
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Mac OS 10.5.2, Mac Pro Update At Macworld?
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The eMac hasn't had an update in a loooong time either.
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.
According to this poll, not really
Haha.. that's because it says: "Redesigned Mac Pro"
It should have said: "New and unbelievably fast Mac Pro"
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.....
The eMac hasn't had an update in a loooong time either.
Yeah, my Performa is DREADFULLY slow while trying to surf the web. At least my word processor is snappier more than ever!
The eMac hasn't had an update in a loooong time either.
It kinda did, but got a name change - there is a camera-less iMac specifically for education...
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
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!
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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.
Not for many people...for me on 3 Macs it was great, with Disk Utility being the only problem app...
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
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.
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...
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...
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?!
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?!
Eh.. Page 2??
Wouldn't this rumor be about the most anticipated hardware update since August 2006?
But.... I am waiting for this baby!!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.