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Snow Leopard in September, Xserve in June, Mac Pro Speed Boost, and More?
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The Quadro FX 5800 has got to be for the halo effect. The list price of that card ($3,100) is equal to the cost of the MacPro. I can't imagine they'll sell too many of that card.
Where I used to work, anything over $2,500 was deemed a capital purchase and received A LOT more scrutiny. I'm glad I'm not the one who would have to explain why one of my developers has to have that card.
Where I used to work, anything over $2,500 was deemed a capital purchase and received A LOT more scrutiny. I'm glad I'm not the one who would have to explain why one of my developers has to have that card.
Except that other components like HD and GPU may receive significant boosts. I'm also hoping for a resolution boost in the near future. A midyear bump would go nicely with an Arrandale update in Q1 2010.
No update until Nehalem would be like the iMac, in that update cycles are getting closer to a year.
Q3 2009 is what I've heard.
Didn't they bump the 15" unibody macbook pro's speed from 2.8GHz to 2.93GHz right after the new unibody 17" came out?
Hardmac most likely uses machine translations to translate the original French content at macbidouille.com into English, with a human just touching things up. And that human missed that glitch.Grand Crental! My imagination is running wild, LOL.
And the linked article at hardmac called it Large Central! LOL
They've done that several other times with the MacBook Pros, although one time was the addition of a BTO 2.6 GHz CPU to the top 2 models.
FAIL!
Ugh none of these rumors are in my favor. I'm probably looking at a low end 15in MBP, I would hope there is some kind of update before then. I really want a bigger battery and matte screen like on the 17in. Also having it come with snow leopard come on it would save me some money.
I got a low-end MacBook Pro not long ago and when the other two models were bumped it was kinda both a good thing (2.4 GHz is still current) and a bad thing (low-end MBP wasn't bumped).
I would also like to see 17"-type batteries on the rest of the Apple lineup.
That sounds about right.
http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/21/intels-clarksfield-to-begin-production-in-second-half-of-2009/
(no date in the article, but "second half of 2009" to begin production and a November release fit.)
Shhhhh. You'll wake the trolls.
I don't get how this rumor could be found plausible. Shake was a disco product a few years ago, but now they are going to bring it back? Seems weird to me. If they do bring it back, the studios who paid 100K+ for the source code to shake will be very mad.
The original MacBook Pro had its speed bumped between announcement and release (From 1.66/1.83 to 1.83/2.0 then the addition of an even higher BTO speed a little after that (BTO 2.13)! And the higher BTO proc dropped in price by a not insignificant amount only a couple months later. So at time of announcement in January, high end was 1.83 GHz for $2499; in March, high end 'stock' was 2.0 GHz for $2499, $2799 for 2.13 GHz, by April, high end was 2.13 GHz for $2599.
As for the 3.2 GHz Mac Pro; the issue here is heat. The 2.93 GHz processor is a 95 Watt part, the 3.2 GHz processor is a 130 Watt part. That extra 70 Watts (combined between two processors,) might be too much for the existing cooling system.
then the addition of an even higher BTO speed a little after that (BTO 2.13)! And the higher BTO proc dropped in price by a not insignificant amount only a couple months later. So at time of announcement in January, high end was 1.83 GHz for $2499; in March, high end 'stock' was 2.0 GHz for $2499, $2799 for 2.13 GHz, by April, high end was 2.13 GHz for $2599.As for the 3.2 GHz Mac Pro; the issue here is heat. The 2.93 GHz processor is a 95 Watt part, the 3.2 GHz processor is a 130 Watt part. That extra 70 Watts (combined between two processors,) might be too much for the existing cooling system.
i really hope that the iMac gets Nehalem at around the same time as the "portables" or i won't be too pleased...
Was there ever a release date published by Apple? If not, then there's nothing to say that September would be "late". Leopard is running great, so I don't see why they need to rush to supersede it.
I thought the BTO 2.17 GHz was added at the same time as the standard models were bumped to 1.83/2.0.The original MacBook Pro had its speed bumped between announcement and release (From 1.66/1.83 to 1.83/2.0
"About a year" after WWDC 2008 in June.
I wonder if the Logic update will be Logic 9 or just a point release. I wish they hadn't said anything about Logic.... I was all set to buy it (in non-upgradeable academic version).
Very shaky rumor
Hell anyone of us could have posted that.
I'm of the opinion that they have no credible sources here.
Hell anyone of us could have posted that.
I'm of the opinion that they have no credible sources here.
Interesting too that the original HardMac rumor makes significant mentions of Blu-Ray. I'd be skeptical of Apple finally supporting it, but putting it into Snow Leopard does make some sense.
I wouldn't be right to release "snow" leopard in the summer anyways.
When it's summer in one half of the globe, it's winter in the other...
I'm starting to think these rumors might be closer to what we would like to see rather than what really will happen, especially from the Nehalem notebooks in November bit.
"Notebooks to move to Nehalem in November".
Hopefully like this:
Next Apple moves will be Books and Games
http://spidouz.wordpress.com/2008/09/03/next-apple-moves-will-be-books-and-games
Hopefully like this:
Next Apple moves will be Books and Games
http://spidouz.wordpress.com/2008/09/03/next-apple-moves-will-be-books-and-games