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Rumors of New Apple Hardware Tomorrow Swirling

myusernamesucks said:
What do you use for audio? External speakers or cable into the TV?
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Y-cable (a white Belkin one, probably designed for two sets of headphones to one iPod) from the Mini's 1/4" output, one goes to the TV input and the other to a stereo input on my home cinema system. I listen through either depending on how much oomph the material calls for.
 
clarksonknight said:
My response is - what are you actually doing with it? Most people think they need the latest and greatest, but they don't have any software that takes advantage of 4 cores efficiently. They just think it will make their games or Firefox faster than the next guy. As a computer engineer and someone who knows more than a little bit about what's going on inside, I have to laugh a little bit when average joe gets upset because his quad core machine doesn't boot XP in 500ms.
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I use it for rendering in Cinema 4d which is WONDERFUL at taking advantage of multi-core machines.

At work, I have a dual quad core xeon, and you can see 8 render lines churning through my image.

On the latest MacPros, it can run each core with hyper threading, giving you 16 virtual cores and 16 lines running through the image. Wonderful for preview renders- even better for chugging through hi-res renders.

With my educational discount, getting the fastest iMac with core i7, 8GB ram, and Apple care is $79 more than the cheapest mac pro with nothing else added. At 2.8 Ghz, the iMac Core i7 will be faster than or comparable to the base quad mac pro at 2.66.

Plus the fact I get a 27 inch LED monitor and memory card slot with the iMac, well, I can live with that. 4 ram slots, too.

I am one happy camper.
 
Well the i7 chips are faster across the board than previous core 2 quads. Even with just one or two cores.
You don't need apps that can use 4 cores. The OS will assign apps to a core. So for multitasking there is a very large benefit from it. And I routinely multitask. Four single thread apps are going to run better on 4 cores than on 2.
 
twoodcc said:
well the rumors were pretty accurate, and the imac does seem very impressive
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Yes it does. And thank god that they give the quad core option. I myself am just getting the $1200 21" base with no upgrades. I am glad they made it so now we won't hear the fanboys botching. Even though they will find something to complain about.
 
Oh well, no updates again today :( ... maybe next Tuesday. ;)




BuddhistGirafe said:
I am glad they made it so now we won't hear the fanboys botching. Even though they will find something to complain about.
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I've only had time for a quick look, but most of it looks good to me.

The two main disappointments are sticking with yucky white (keyboards, mouse and MacBooks) and continuing to ship that silly little keyboard instead of a proper full-sized one (at least you can still buy it separately or swap it in build-to-order purchases ... at the moment, it's anyone's guess when they phase them out). Can't say I'm a fan of wireless either - the mouse simply feels too heavy and they tend to eat batteries.

The touch-sensitve mouse may or may not turn out to be a hopeless disaster ... we'll have to use one to find out, but again you can buy / swap the old "Mighty Mouse" (now called "Apple Mouse") separately.
 
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