Mac Pro Update With 6-Core Xeon Gulftown Processors Due Soon?

[twoodcc]

hmm, i was hoping we'd hear more rumors of the mac pro being released next month. but surely it'll happen

 

[STxMacUser]

Apple does a great job at blowing the shorts off of the competition.
A MacBook Pro i9, (with great battery life....I hope), would do the job.
Steve Jobs pretty much rocks.

 

[Anonymous Freak]

Apple does a great job at blowing the shorts off of the competition.
A MacBook Pro i9, (with great battery life....I hope), would do the job.
Steve Jobs pretty much rocks.

uh..........

The mobile processors are i3, i5, and i7. And at this point, most rumors state i7-980X will be the name of the next-gen desktop chip, not i9.

(The 'next gen' mobile chips are the dual-core i3, i5, and i7 chips that were already released. The low-end desktop chips are already released, too, as i3 and i5. It's the high-end desktop and server chips that aren't out yet for the 'next gen'.)

 

[STxMacUser]

uh.......oh, you're right.

I meant i11

 

[Techhie]

hmm, i was hoping we'd hear more rumors of the mac pro being released next month. but surely it'll happen

In order to make them available before the actual chip announcement (March 16), they would have to unveil them within the next three weeks. Otherwise, there's not much of a point to having an exclusivity agreement, is there?

 

[twoodcc]

In order to make them available before the actual chip announcement (March 16), they would have to unveil them within the next three weeks. Otherwise, there's not much of a point to having an exclusivity agreement, is there?

exactly. something tells me that march 16 will be the day though, but i hope sooner

 

[stanton]

Actually, and correct me if I'm wrong, it seems the current "highest" singular core is a quad core and the 8 core is basically 2 quad cores. This new 6-core would be the 'new highest' singular core. AKA 2 would be a 12-core (?)

Intel makes higher end processors for virtualization, but they also cost allot higher and are more geared towards blade servers with 4 or more processors. The 7400 series come in both 4 core and six core currently.

http://www.intel.com/p/en_US/products/server/processor/xeon7000
"The Intel® Xeon® Processor 7400 Series is a four or six core product for multi-processor servers. The processor is a single die based on Intel’s 45 nanometer process technology combining high performance with the power efficiencies of a low-power microarchitecture."

 

[FluJunkie]

*moves hand away from credit card*

Well, really glad I didn't click "Buy" on that Mac Pro order tonight. I can wait until March.

 

[anthony11]

However, the 2009 model of the Mac Pro is broken in too many ways, people cannot rely on it for mission critical systems, they have been trying to find 2008 versions.

ORLY? My 4,1 runs fine. It's more stable than my 2007 MBP for sure.

fibre channel likes to cause kernel panics, firewire has problems.

FC is ancient history. Why in 2010 would anyone voluntarily mess with it anyway?

 

[lPHONE]

Guftown is the fastest Intel processor, right?

 

[mBox]

*moves hand away from credit card*

Well, really glad I didn't click "Buy" on that Mac Pro order tonight. I can wait until March.

Your off by a year I think?

 

[FluJunkie]

Your off by a year I think?

Holy hell I am.

Reading comprehension ftl.

*dives back toward credit card*

 

[mBox]

Holy hell I am.

Reading comprehension ftl.

*dives back toward credit card*

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