So..., are you saying that we'll be waiting another year until the next Mac Pro upgrade? Seems like an awful long time between updates to the Pro line of Mac desktops.
Well, luckily enough, it took Apple 518 days to update the Mac Pro last time!
So..., are you saying that we'll be waiting another year until the next Mac Pro upgrade? Seems like an awful long time between updates to the Pro line of Mac desktops.
According to the MR Buying Guide: "Buy only if you need it - Approaching the end of a cycle". I assumed this meant a new upgrade would be within the next 6 months or so. I'm clueless when it comes to following the release dates of the latest Intel products, so I've been keeping my eye on the Buying Guide page:
https://buyersguide.macrumors.com//#Mac_Pro
However, if the consensus is that it'll be mid 2009 until the next upgrade to the MP line, I guess I should look to buy now rather than wait. I guess I could hope for a price reduction in the meanwhile.
I was going to go down to my local apple store today and pick up a 23" ACD along with a mac pro 2.8ghz model.
But now I'm thinking about just picking up a white macbook and wait until dec. or at most january for the nehalem.
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What do you do with it?
Massive storage of video files and hd encoding, vmware fusion for a few programs, some gaming, massive music collection, chatting, mail, visualhub, heavy multitasking, safari, transmission, unison, streaming hd movies to xbox 360, iphoto collection, colloquy, microsoft word and stuff like that.
So...are you saying that we'll be waiting another year until the next Mac Pro upgrade? Seems like an awful long time between updates to the Pro line of Mac desktops.
I do not believe it will be that long, but if Intel holds back on the server / workstation line, they might not be able to get them into Apple's hands by Mac World 2009 (which I and others have hypothesized could be the launch window). So that could mean WWDC (if Apple wants to make a big splash) and that is too late for me.
The early Nehalems are not going to be cheap, so it is possible that Apple's margin warnings are because they will eat the price difference between Xeons/Penryns and Nehalems to keep price points the same, which would support Apple launching the chips as soon as they can get them.
No you do not need a Mac Pro for that!Massive storage of video files and hd encoding,
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microsoft word and stuff like that.
I just notice on nehalemnews.com that they now have some benchmarks for the Gainstown chips which seem likely candidates for the Mac Pro based on Apple's previous chip model choices. There is also an article suggesting Bloomfield - the mainstream desktop version of Nehalem may be announced in September and ship in October. In the past (with Penryn for example) the mainstream desktop models have shipped after the mainstream Server/Workstation chips although they could proceed differently this time I guess.
No you do not need a Mac Pro for that!
Or is Microsoft Word that bloated?
Bye-bye Penryn and Barcelona. At least until 6-core Istanbul (H2 2009) comes.
We should be seeing some pretty significant performance improvements for the next Mac Pros. Given that there won't be significant quantities of Gainestown until Q4 2008, we may see a January/February (not Macworld) release.
The Early 2008 Mac Pro (Apple gave us the "Early" name) came out in January of 2008.
If there wouldn't be "Late 2008", wouldn't "Early 2008" just called "2008"?
Surely Apple knows more than one year ahead when it's going to put out a new model. And they would not decrease their sales by giving hints of earlier upgrade than they are going to do.
If there wouldn't be "Late 2008", wouldn't "Early 2008" just called "2008"?
Surely Apple knows more than one year ahead when it's going to put out a new model. And they would not decrease their sales by giving hints of earlier upgrade than they are going to do.
yea I just went ahead and bought it lol.
Either way 4 years from now I'll just upgrade then with whatever is new.
It surprises me the heck out of me that apple even calls it the "Early 2008" even if they knew or everybody even suspected they would bring out another model in 2008.
It wouldnt really matter if it was called "early" mac pro or "late" because its just distinguishing the time of its release/model.
Following that logic, should not the Mac Pro introduced in August of 2006 be dubbed by Apple the "Mid-Summer 2006 Mac Pro"?