Waiting until tomorrow (July 13th) or pulling the trigger!!

ValSalva said:
Go and check several stores. They all have Mac Pros ready for in store pickup now. It was probably a glitch. We'll know for sure in a couple of days.
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Yeah, I'm just posting the rumor.

For the record I wanted to get a Mac Pro as a server at my job - which didn't fly due to the cost of it, but that's ok. Anyway, around these parts the lower config wasn't readily available. The more expensive one was. Take that for what it's worth.
 
For christ sake..

ITS NOT COMING!! I called my own Apple store and yes under apple's website it also said: Unavailable there, but called and confirmed - they have plenty of 2009's, mostly quad-core.. and they further told me that that is NOT an indication of a new model coming out.. so there you have it.

God these things are making me sick.


revelated said:
I know some got impatient...

http://www.appleinsider.com/article...tail_inventories_suggest_imminent_update.html
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Cindori said:
so now it's coming.

https://www.macrumors.com/2010/07/2...-for-in-store-reservations-at-many-locations/

edit:nvm, repost
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Roman23 said:
ITS NOT COMING!! I called my own Apple store and yes under apple's website it also said: Unavailable there, but called and confirmed - they have plenty of 2009's, mostly quad-core.. and they further told me that that is NOT an indication of a new model coming out.. so there you have it.

God these things are making me sick.
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Since when are normal Apple store employees aware of new releases? If they always had knowledge of new releases, then we wouldn't need rumors, we could just hear it from the employees. And stop whining because people are talking about Apple rumors, this is macrumors you know.
 
I have a friend who works at my local store

and that is what he told me.. in fact, I might go up there today as I need to pick up a time capsule for my mac pro.


strausd said:
Since when are normal Apple store employees aware of new releases? If they always had knowledge of new releases, then we wouldn't need rumors, we could just hear it from the employees. And stop whining because people are talking about Apple rumors, this is macrumors you know.
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dude... your standard reply "ITS NOT COMING!!!!!1111" to every single rumor is pretty... well, annoying.
 
I don't think its coming

This tuesday.. If anything, September - maybe.

But the thing about "unavailable" has nothing to do with a new model coming out as least not from what I found out as I showed this thread to my friend who works at my local Apple store(just got back) and he told me its BS and not to believe it.

In fact he told me that the Apple Store in Towson, MD has plenty of quad-core mac pros in stock.. 8-cores would have to be ordered on-line.
 
Roman23 said:
This tuesday.. If anything, September - maybe.

But the thing about "unavailable" has nothing to do with a new model coming out as least not from what I found out as I showed this thread to my friend who works at my local Apple store(just got back) and he told me its BS and not to believe it.

In fact he told me that the Apple Store in Towson, MD has plenty of quad-core mac pros in stock.. 8-cores would have to be ordered on-line.
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ANY PROOF?!?!?! I WANT COLD HARD EVIDENCE NOW OR THAT IS COMPLETE BLASPHEMY!!!!!!!

My impression of you ;)

Again, since when do Apple store employees get inside info?!?!?! THEY DON'T! And it seriously is annoying how you always say the same thing to every rumor. Just shut up already, everyone knows what you think.
 
My friend who works at my local store

ISN'T lying.. I showed him these threads and he told me its bull... complete bull and not to worry about it though really why should I? Why do I need to care? Not like I am using my mac pro for industry related work, or using it to make a living with it.. though I could run an ebay store with it.. but, in either case.. this is not my worry.. its your worry since you all need this speed of 2 extra cores which there is still very few precious software that can take advantage of 12 cores let alone 6.. or even 4 for that matter..

When the time comes that all software will need 4 or more cores, then I will consider.. but for now.. MS Office, gaming, etc.. uses maybe if I am lucky 2 cores at best..

The following are known to work with 8 or more cores:

Video rendering software(all apple titles) - completly useless to me.
Audio rendering and creation software(all apple titles) - again, useless to me as I am not a song writer or producer of audio.

Photo related software such as Adobe CS5, etc... - While I do make movies on my computer and have photo albums, the basics are enough for me as I don't need these expensive software packages.

SO there you have it.. not all of us are going to benefit from 8 cores or more though. I know I won't. Its a nice upgrade though, but the B1 stepping isn't on the 2009 at least not yet until someone develops an efi flash utility to flash the firmware of the 2010 over to the 2009.

End of thread.


strausd said:
ANY PROOF?!?!?! I WANT COLD HARD EVIDENCE NOW OR THAT IS COMPLETE BLASPHEMY!!!!!!!

My impression of you ;)

Again, since when do Apple store employees get inside info?!?!?! THEY DON'T! And it seriously is annoying how you always say the same thing to every rumor. Just shut up already, everyone knows what you think.
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beside the fact that there is software/part of that that will _never_ run on multiple cores, 2 things: why the hell do u buy a mac pro for office and gaming?! and: it seems you dont know much about you are talking...
 
PeterQVenkman said:
Except when using a GPU based renderer, of course. ;)

Tried Octane out a while back. Very cool. I'll stick with my old CPU bound renderers for now, though.
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Not that we've got up to date graphics cards to choose from :rolleyes:

If anyone needs render time I'll gladly sell you access to my OC'd 12 core x5650 windoze box. That thing is such a joy to work on :D
 
Only one way to fly......

12 core 4.4Ghz
12GB DDR3 RAM
120GB Sandforce Boot SSD
2TB Black
GTX 260 Card
2x DVDRW
Gigabit
FW 800

Geekbench 27000
OS X 10.6.4

Need I say more?
 
How much?

Thats a pretty nice set up!

12GB DDR3 RAM
120GB Sandforce Boot SSD
2TB Black
GTX 260 Card
2x DVDRW
Gigabit
FW 800

Geekbench 27000
OS X 10.6.4

Need I say more?[/QUOTE]
 
Here let me add confusion to the mix, I went ahead last Wednesday (10am PDT) and placed an order for 2 2009 Mac Pro's to upgrade my kid's 24" aluminum iMac's. I ordered them both as follows

Two 2.26GHz Quad-Core Intel Xe
6GB (6X1GB)
ATI Radeon HD 4870 512MB
640GB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/
One 18x SuperDrive
AirPort Extreme Wi-Fi Card

So basically added the 4870 video card and the Wi-Fi card to both. Now here's the weird part, they we're both listed as shipping in 3-5 business days, but Friday morning one of the two computers shipped, while the other hasn't shipped at all yet (it hasn't even gone to prepared for shipment). That seems odd, as I would have expected both to come out at roughly the same time. So does this indicate some kind of supply shortage at the actual factory as well (also indicating a possible refresh coming soon), or is it purely coincidence (I've never ordered two at a time before, the other 2 I already have we're ordered separately).

*shrugs*, who knows is probably the best answer, but either way, I wasn't going to play the waiting game, and the 2009's will do plenty fine for my kids (I'm still on a 2008 Mac Pro here, would like a better video card than the 4870 but that's about the only thing I would like to upgrade on my system, as I'm already running on a pair of SSD's)
 
Has nothing to do with a refresh..

You need to call Apple's customer service and ask them why the 2nd one hasn't been shipped. Again, its not due to any refresh, but possibly it could be do to a computer glitch maybe?

Or the warehouse might not have gotten the information as of yet.. again, call Apple and find out.


zaphon said:
Here let me add confusion to the mix, I went ahead last Wednesday (10am PDT) and placed an order for 2 2009 Mac Pro's to upgrade my kid's 24" aluminum iMac's. I ordered them both as follows

Two 2.26GHz Quad-Core Intel Xe
6GB (6X1GB)
ATI Radeon HD 4870 512MB
640GB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/
One 18x SuperDrive
AirPort Extreme Wi-Fi Card

So basically added the 4870 video card and the Wi-Fi card to both. Now here's the weird part, they we're both listed as shipping in 3-5 business days, but Friday morning one of the two computers shipped, while the other hasn't shipped at all yet (it hasn't even gone to prepared for shipment). That seems odd, as I would have expected both to come out at roughly the same time. So does this indicate some kind of supply shortage at the actual factory as well (also indicating a possible refresh coming soon), or is it purely coincidence (I've never ordered two at a time before, the other 2 I already have we're ordered separately).

*shrugs*, who knows is probably the best answer, but either way, I wasn't going to play the waiting game, and the 2009's will do plenty fine for my kids (I'm still on a 2008 Mac Pro here, would like a better video card than the 4870 but that's about the only thing I would like to upgrade on my system, as I'm already running on a pair of SSD's)
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Roman23 said:
You need to call Apple's customer service and ask them why the 2nd one hasn't been shipped. Again, its not due to any refresh, but possibly it could be do to a computer glitch maybe?

Or the warehouse might not have gotten the information as of yet.. again, call Apple and find out.
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I will once it gets past the 3-5 business days. I was just saying one of the two I ordered shipped in only 2 business days, Apple has until Wednesday basically to ship the other one in order to meet the 3-5 business days quoted. Than I will call, but as I said, it just seemed odd that one would come out so quickly and the other would be MIA. AKA just trying to add to the speculation I guess. :)
 
Roman23 said:
ISN'T lying.. I showed him these threads and he told me its bull... complete bull and not to worry about it though really why should I? Why do I need to care? Not like I am using my mac pro for industry related work, or using it to make a living with it.. though I could run an ebay store with it.. but, in either case.. this is not my worry.. its your worry since you all need this speed of 2 extra cores which there is still very few precious software that can take advantage of 12 cores let alone 6.. or even 4 for that matter..

When the time comes that all software will need 4 or more cores, then I will consider.. but for now.. MS Office, gaming, etc.. uses maybe if I am lucky 2 cores at best..

The following are known to work with 8 or more cores:

Video rendering software(all apple titles) - completly useless to me.
Audio rendering and creation software(all apple titles) - again, useless to me as I am not a song writer or producer of audio.

Photo related software such as Adobe CS5, etc... - While I do make movies on my computer and have photo albums, the basics are enough for me as I don't need these expensive software packages.

SO there you have it.. not all of us are going to benefit from 8 cores or more though. I know I won't. Its a nice upgrade though, but the B1 stepping isn't on the 2009 at least not yet until someone develops an efi flash utility to flash the firmware of the 2010 over to the 2009.

End of thread.
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Sure, most people probably won't benefit from 2 extra cores. However, people who need the power, like myself, for 3D rendering and video work will greatly benefit from the extra cores. Also, I plan on getting a 12-core machine, three times the processing power of a quad-core of the same clock speed. I will be using pro applications that can utilize this power, so it will benefit me and others I am sure.

But yes, you are right thinking that there are many out there who will not need the extra two cores. I, however, am not one to say who needs it and who doesn't.
 
strausd said:
And stop whining because people are talking about Apple rumors, this is macrumors you know.
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Thought that's what the site was :p Maybe it'll pan out, maybe it won't...but I think without individuals sharing what they've heard or seen on the web, most Apple fans would be flying blind. Discouraging that sharing seems...well...like something some old fuddy-duddy would do.

Keep them rumors coming!
 
12/24 Physical Virtual Core 4.2Ghz
12GB DDR3 RAM
120GB Sandforce Boot SSD
2TB Black
GTX 260 Card
2x DVDRW
Gigabit
FW 800

Geekbench 27000
OS X 10.6.4

$7000
 
Don't worry..

everything will be fine.. just call them on Tuesday or Weds and find out the situation with the order.. it probably is something stupid.. but you can call now if you want.. Apple is very helpful with these things. :)


zaphon said:
Here let me add confusion to the mix, I went ahead last Wednesday (10am PDT) and placed an order for 2 2009 Mac Pro's to upgrade my kid's 24" aluminum iMac's. I ordered them both as follows

Two 2.26GHz Quad-Core Intel Xe
6GB (6X1GB)
ATI Radeon HD 4870 512MB
640GB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/
One 18x SuperDrive
AirPort Extreme Wi-Fi Card

So basically added the 4870 video card and the Wi-Fi card to both. Now here's the weird part, they we're both listed as shipping in 3-5 business days, but Friday morning one of the two computers shipped, while the other hasn't shipped at all yet (it hasn't even gone to prepared for shipment). That seems odd, as I would have expected both to come out at roughly the same time. So does this indicate some kind of supply shortage at the actual factory as well (also indicating a possible refresh coming soon), or is it purely coincidence (I've never ordered two at a time before, the other 2 I already have we're ordered separately).

*shrugs*, who knows is probably the best answer, but either way, I wasn't going to play the waiting game, and the 2009's will do plenty fine for my kids (I'm still on a 2008 Mac Pro here, would like a better video card than the 4870 but that's about the only thing I would like to upgrade on my system, as I'm already running on a pair of SSD's)
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zaphon said:
I will once it gets past the 3-5 business days. I was just saying one of the two I ordered shipped in only 2 business days, Apple has until Wednesday basically to ship the other one in order to meet the 3-5 business days quoted. Than I will call, but as I said, it just seemed odd that one would come out so quickly and the other would be MIA. AKA just trying to add to the speculation I guess. :)
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