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The 2009 (Gainestown) Mac Pro: Everything We Know
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If you have an unlimited budget and are willing to pay ten times as much for double the RAM.
Yes they are, but the iMac only has room for two of them which is one of its many bottlenecks. The all in one design is perfect for a family, education, or business machine, but Apple is trying to push the form factor into segments (and onto users) that the form factor was not intended for and not well suited for. If you're neither a home consumer or in the highest echelon of professionals you're stuck with either half of what you want at the same price you previously paid for a PowerMac or double what you want at twice the price.
I'm hoping the "pleasant surprise" they speak of is a split in the Mac Pro ranks. Hopefully its becoming clear to Apple that the MacPro is becoming something beyond and up-market from the PowerMac and not a replacement.
The rumor is that Apple has picked up the new FreeBSD "ULE Scheduler" and banged on that code a lot to make something wild and wonderful out of it in Snow Leopard.
Yep. Sounds about right to me. I doubt the mini or iMac updates will be groundbreaking enough to warrant an event on their own so makes sense to do them all together
Thats seems to be the best guess. I'll be back from vacation on the 23rd, just in time.
And this is a great thread. Keep it up.
If I were to pick, I'd like the Mac Pro to look like the Mark Levinson 33 or 53.
33 http://www.marklevinson.com/image_library/33AD_lo.jpg
http://www.marklevinson.com/image_library/No53-drama_lo.jpg
It's a shame Apple would never pick that retro 2001 style =(
33 http://www.marklevinson.com/image_library/33AD_lo.jpg
http://www.marklevinson.com/image_library/No53-drama_lo.jpg
It's a shame Apple would never pick that retro 2001 style =(
Two rumors now for a March 24 special event for the desktops:
http://www.myappleguide.com/news/2180/apple-event-march-24
http://news.worldofapple.com/archives/2009/03/01/apple-event-scheduled-for-march-24/
Interesting about the Mac Pros though. Gainestown won't be out until March 29, so either Apple's getting it early or the Mac Pro won't actually be released until later. There will apparently be "a new Mac mini, iMacs with the new NVIDIA chipset, Mac Pros with Xeon processors along with a pleasant 'surprise'." Is the "pleasant surprise" for the Mac Pro or is it something else?
http://www.myappleguide.com/news/2180/apple-event-march-24
http://news.worldofapple.com/archives/2009/03/01/apple-event-scheduled-for-march-24/
Interesting about the Mac Pros though. Gainestown won't be out until March 29, so either Apple's getting it early or the Mac Pro won't actually be released until later. There will apparently be "a new Mac mini, iMacs with the new NVIDIA chipset, Mac Pros with Xeon processors along with a pleasant 'surprise'." Is the "pleasant surprise" for the Mac Pro or is it something else?
About two weeks ago Intel announced that the new Xeons are already in production.
If they do announce something then I would expect some shipping delays. We've been hearing about events comming and hardware comming for ages now though on all three of these products, so I wouldn't be getting excited if I was waiting.
Although I have been keen to point out that Apple released Mac Pros 6 and 8 weeks after Xeons were launched previously, that's all we have to go on after all, I will admit it is a bit different this time. The launch date is where it is to meet a Q1 release and let board manufacturers clear inventory and let Intel sell their Penryn processor stockpile from what I've heard. So it is possible they have a large inventory of Xeon 5500 processors ready to reach vendors. I'd forget about any special treatment for Apple stuff though, that screams of wishful fanboi thinking, Apple are a small customer for Xeon processors. Though if they buying several hundred thousand in advance of the same SKU that might work in their favour.
also, the most recent build of leopard includes nehalem support.
http://www.appleinsider.com/article..._may_have_nehalem_radeon_hd_4000_support.html
btw, tallest, check out the 4800 support.
I'll tell you what:
It's becoming increasingly difficult for me to find new information about Gainestown, Tylersburg, and case designs in relation to the next Mac Pro...
...because this thread is at the top of every Google search.
That, and other places are citing it as their source.
Doesn't anyone have an original thought anymore?
It's becoming increasingly difficult for me to find new information about Gainestown, Tylersburg, and case designs in relation to the next Mac Pro...
...because this thread is at the top of every Google search.
That, and other places are citing it as their source.
Doesn't anyone have an original thought anymore?
Don't you mean an original guess? You and others have pretty much guessed, speculated, and dreamed just about every possibility. So much so that this thread has been so polluted that it has lost much of its value.Doesn't anyone have an original thought anymore?
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That's why the first post exists. I've weeded out the junk and have only the most plausible stuff in there.
All the talk about string theory, RAID, and the like can stay where it is if people want to read it, but the first post is a concise overview of the situation.
Seems to me they'd like to time the new MP with the new 30" ACD. To me, NAB for MP and ACD and WWDC/2009 for Snow Leopard.
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