Nehalem... when?

[nurivo]

Here's what I think the Nehalem Mac Pro will look like:

You lost me here… what should that picture remind me of?

 

[Salavat23]

You could've put a little more effort into that

Eh, not bad for 2 minutes worth of work.

 

[Tallest Skil]

You lost me here… what should that picture remind me of?

It's Apple one-upping the BlackBird 002. Instead of one foot, Apple has two! One on the top and one on the bottom, so as to keep the symmetry of the handles around.

 

[nurivo]

It's Apple one-upping the BlackBird 002. Instead of one foot, Apple has two! One on the top and one on the bottom, so as to keep the symmetry of the handles around.

Wow, now I get it. Two feet is definitely the way to go!

 

[m1stake]

Only two?

 

[iMacmatician]

Yeah, Montevina. But he wanted to know about Nehalem. It's strange, though, that the portable Nehalem is coming out so much later than Montevina. We've gotten used to processor updates happening an average of every 4.5 months in the MacBooks and MacBook Pros. Can you imagine the complaints when there won't be anything until Nehalem? Or will there be higher-clocked processors in an update after Montevina's out?

Apparently there will be a small speed bump in Q1 2009. Each dual-core processor will go up 133 MHz.

The current 2.8 quad that the Mac Pro uses costs about $750-$850. Apple gets it cheaper, but still.


There is no way Apple will use Beckton because:

• Too expensive ($3000+ for CPUs alone)
• Too little space inside the current case for 4 large heatsinks
• Too much power would be used (130w x 4 + 100w for mobo)
• Too much heat generated at full load in a relatively small case
• The replacement to Nehalem, Westmere, is launching within 6 months of Beckton.

Don't forget that Xeon MP chips are SLOWER than Xeon DP chips (except in cache-intensive applications) for the price. And usually the Xeon MP, although it is more powerful than a Xeon DP, is up to a year behind that Xeon DP.

 

[m1stake]

In that case I bet they'll skip Nehalem and just go with Penryn+133's.

"Now 133Mhz faster!!!"