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Mac Pro minor upgrade soon?

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renault4

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My local supplier (a university bookstore) has had Mac Pros on backorder for a few weeks and is not expecting delivery for a couple of weeks more; is there any "chatter in the channels" about an upgrade in the works? I doubt they would go to Nehalem yet, so, if real, this would likely be a minor refresh to the existing line: maybe upping clock speed in otherwise standard configuration?

thanks for any info.
 
I thought there was a small chance Nehalem would come by Macworld 2009...
 
Hope upgrade happens

I hope the upgrade, either a speed bump or the move to Nehalem, happens soon. I need some processing power soon, and I would hate to invest in a Mac Pro that was updated 6 months ago!

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powermac_daddy said:
you are the weather man. what do you think.
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August, a 60% chance of a MacBook/MacBook Pro Montevina update. In September we'll see the iPods as we always do. Partly cloudy for much of the region in October, November, and December, with a clearing up around January in time for the MacWorld MacBook Air update. Early next spring will bring Nehalem iMacs, while later in the season we'll see Nehalem MacBook Pros. Summer will really heat it up with a simultaneous Snow Leopard and Nehalem Mac Pro release at WWDC.

That concludes your forecast for today, I'm Tallest Skil, stay tuned for more LOGICAL and reasonable predictions from The Psywave Corporation.
 
Intel is not releasing any new CPUs that are compatible with the current Mac Pro, so the only options there will remain 2.8GHz, 3.0GHz or 3.2GHz.

So if we see an update, it will be to increase the standard RAM or HDD space, unless they're going to sneak in a Blu-Ray option.
 
I was just browsing through the Apple store and noticed that the standard configuration was now 3.0GHz; a choice of dual 2.8Ghz quad core chips actually involved a price subtraction from the standard configuration:

is this new?
 
renault4 said:
I was just browsing through the Apple store and noticed that the standard configuration was now 3.0GHz; a choice of dual 2.8Ghz quad core chips actually involved a price subtraction from the standard configuration:

is this new?
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I believe this would be new. I haven't checked... US Apple store?
 
renault4 said:
I was just browsing through the Apple store and noticed that the standard configuration was now 3.0GHz; a choice of dual 2.8Ghz quad core chips actually involved a price subtraction from the standard configuration:

is this new?
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It's not happening for me in the U.S. Store? Is this UK, Australian or any other country thing then?
 
wow, I went back to the apple store and sure enough, the configuration page for the Mac Pro indeed reflected the 2.8Ghz as standard configuration. It so happens I still had the tab open from when where I was there the first time--here is a screenshot....
 

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Tallest Skil said:
August, a 60% chance of a MacBook/MacBook Pro Montevina update. In September we'll see the iPods as we always do. Partly cloudy for much of the region in October, November, and December, with a clearing up around January in time for the MacWorld MacBook Air update. Early next spring will bring Nehalem iMacs, while later in the season we'll see Nehalem MacBook Pros. Summer will really heat it up with a simultaneous Snow Leopard and Nehalem Mac Pro release at WWDC.

That concludes your forecast for today, I'm Tallest Skil, stay tuned for more LOGICAL and reasonable predictions from The Psywave Corporation.
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Although pairing up Snow Leopard and a new Mac Pro makes sense, I very strongly doubt that they will upgrade iMacs to Nehalem before the Mac Pro. Why would they ever want to sell an iMac more powerful than the current Mac Pro they're selling?

I think Apple always wants the Mac Pro to be the most powerful computer in their line. So I'd expect an earlier Mac Pro update or a later iMac update.
 
renault4 said:
wow, I went back to the apple store and sure enough, the configuration page for the Mac Pro indeed reflected the 2.8Ghz as standard configuration. It so happens I still had the tab open from when where I was there the first time--here is a screenshot....
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lets see more in that screen shot..with price, etc
 
he could if he left the tab open, or saved in as a file on his comp..just seems like he's leg pulling..hence why he left out the price. bc a 4 core MP for 1,499 seems a bit...cheap...

speaking of which.. go ahead, try it.. all you have to do to get the same screen he had a screen shot of is click on the 3.0 option....
 
oban14 said:
Although pairing up Snow Leopard and a new Mac Pro makes sense, I very strongly doubt that they will upgrade iMacs to Nehalem before the Mac Pro. Why would they ever want to sell an iMac more powerful than the current Mac Pro they're selling?
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Eh.... because it wouldn't be. Unless Nehalem exceeds expectations, there is no way that a laptop processor could outpace the current Penryn Xeon. And they already did...almost. The PowerMac G5 was quickly being overshadowed by the Intel Macs in its last days.

The current 3.06 iMac is still benchmarked lower than the single 2.8 Mac Pro by a decent amount. Nehalem will bring the top of the line to just under the 3.0, and then the Nehalem Mac Pros will restore order.
 
actually, I got it wrong and misread how the radio buttons operate when you select a particular configuration--the 2.8 is still the standard configuration.

my apologies, I was not trying to fool anyone!
 
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