Yes, it is possible, but not likely IMO. This is why:
1. Apple is a company which very well understands the costs of complexity.
2. A quad iMac and a continued quad PM create overlapping product lines with internal canibalization.
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Yes, it is possible, but not likely IMO. This is why:
1. Apple is a company which very well understands the costs of complexity.
2. A quad iMac and a continued quad PM create overlapping product lines with internal canibalization.
They'll create over lap alright but thats what business strategies do when markets have stagnated. like bmw did with mini start off small with an icon product at affordable price and as people age aspirations and earn more. me and many in the mini world ended up with bmw's because of it (may i ad to my regret....), designer brands use it all the time. how many girls have you seen with a designer label purses or hand bags but then no money to put in them. yet they keep spending.
My thinking is apple will for the short term possibly drop the price of the quad core close to that of the quad imac and then have the 6,, 8 and 12 as up sellers admittedly the 8 and 12 are really only for pro's and wouldn't be conn'd by an upsell. Although personally I wish I'd gone the hole hog and gone mad building a mac pro. my comapny once paid 17,000 euros for and one year add campaign (local area type leaflet and dvd door drop) and received less than 50 enquiries. My thinking now is that if we'd have burned our own dvd''s. we'd now have a state of the art media production computer. instead of a sense of anger at the waste of money.
10G networking for a few hundred $$$?
Does anyone know which technology the alleged 10G networking might use? I looked into upgrading a small 08 Pro cluster a while back to something better than the built in 1Gbps and just fell about in hysterical laughter at the prices of cards and switches for > 1 Gbps hardware. Is there something new around that makes switches, cards and cables likely to be sensible money by mid 2010?
Does anyone know which technology the alleged 10G networking might use? I looked into upgrading a small 08 Pro cluster a while back to something better than the built in 1Gbps and just fell about in hysterical laughter at the prices of cards and switches for > 1 Gbps hardware. Is there something new around that makes switches, cards and cables likely to be sensible money by mid 2010?
The gear's already out, and has been since the latter half of '07.
The NIC chip for the board is a little under $100USD (Broadcom BCM57710 is one example) that goes on the board, and it gets worse from there. An 8 port switch (SMC TigerSwitch SMC8708L2 for example), is going for just a little over $6k USD on the street right now.
Not exactly affordable for home users.
Indeed - slightly less than the numbers I saw in spring 08, but my laughter is only slightly less hysterical.
Yeah, it's rather sickening when an Ethernet switch costs more than any of the systems connected to it (even the 10G cards are about what you can get a budget SP box for).