Mac Pro Xeon Processors 'Imminent'

[slughead]

I agree.

A more relevant tangent would be, are we going to see a true "entry level" tower with the new line up?

Something with a level of expansion but instead of borrowing technology from the iMac and "adding" expansion, PCI slots etc... it's a full on mini-tower but with un-registered RAM, half as many RAM slots, a smaller hard drive and only 1 CPU to save on cost?

That's CPU related!

I donno about related, but that would be a cool. People have been talking about this ever since the iMac. The Performa series (1997??) was kind of what you're talking about... Too bad Apple decided to force users to either buy a top of the line system or be forced to replace the whole computer every few years. It works out great for them, crappy for the users though.

 

[iMacmatician]

What about a 2560x1080 (or 1200) 28" display?
Same resolution as the new Philips CINEMA 21:9 TV, but about half the size...

Not bad at all!

 

[barkmonster]

I donno about related, but that would be a cool. People have been talking about this ever since the iMac. The Performa series (1997??) was kind of what you're talking about... Too bad Apple decided to force users to either buy a top of the line system or be forced to replace the whole computer every few years. It works out great for them, crappy for the users though.

The thing is, it's not even that far back.

With the beige G3s we had the desktop models that were just over £1,000

Once the whole Power Mac range moved to towers, there was always an entry level model for around the same price. It would have a slower CPU with less cache than the models above and a slower GPU, maybe a 5,400rpm hard drive too and very little standard memory but otherwise was just as expandable as the other models.

I'm sure something like this would be possible these days but apple aren't giving any middle ground between the top iMac and the Mac Pros

I don't see why a single CPU Mac Pro has to cost over £1,400. It prices a lot of people out.

 

[Abaddon75]

The only other upgrades I'd really like to see are blu-ray and usb 3.0

 

[mBox]

The thing is, it's not even that far back.

With the beige G3s we had the desktop models that were just over £1,000

Once the whole Power Mac range moved to towers, there was always an entry level model for around the same price. It would have a slower CPU with less cache than the models above and a slower GPU, maybe a 5,400rpm hard drive too and very little standard memory but otherwise was just as expandable as the other models.

I'm sure something like this would be possible these days but apple aren't giving any middle ground between the top iMac and the Mac Pros

I don't see why a single CPU Mac Pro has to cost over £1,400. It prices a lot of people out.

Maybe its a marketing thing. Currently Im happy I can name all the models with one hand. In the past it was insane. And Im talking LCII, Performa, Quadra etc....

 

[Eric S.]

Maybe its a marketing thing. Currently Im happy I can name all the models with one hand. In the past it was insane. And Im talking LCII, Performa, Quadra etc....

The problem there was that you had slight variations of the same machine marketed under different names. And you're right, it was crazy because it was impossible to keep all of the permutations straight. But now there are just too few choices, especially if you don't buy into the all-in-one iMac that Apple has gone too far in favor of.