What about new MacPro with 3.2 Nehalem

[MadisonTate]

why?
dell is also selling quadcore laptops and apple doesnt give a rats ass about it.
i bet that we wont see a 3.2 nehalem so soon

Dell is selling i7's, not Xeon's, for their consumer products. I also think you'll see quadcore lap tops when mobile Nehalem is available, if not before.

 

[Inconsequential]

The 3.2 has a different thermal envelope. With the current case design, you wouldn't benefit from the built-in automatic overclocking since you would be hitting the thermal limits all the time.

35W x 2 = an extra 70 watt light bulb's worth of heat to get rid of. That's a very big deal and they would need to design it into all the cases or end up with a separate design.

Everybody just sit back and watch what Snow Leopard does with the extra virtual cores and Turbo Boost (?). Hopefully then you'll stop nit-picking over an extra 100 MHz.

The old 3.2ghz Mac Pro TDPs were 20W more.

Either the cost or the supply is why apple have not included them NOT heat output and anyway, turbo boost still operates within that 130W limit so basically there is no heat issue with using them in the Mac Pro.

Hell, go and buy the 2.26 and buy the £2k of 3.2Ghz i7 xeons and see what happens...

 

[Ploki]

Dell is selling i7's, not Xeon's, for their consumer products. I also think you'll see quadcore lap tops when mobile Nehalem is available, if not before.

sure, but i think more impressive will be the 16core mac pro instead of 3.2ghz 8core one

 

[DantesAID]

sure, but i think more impressive will be the 16core mac pro instead of 3.2ghz 8core one

Yeh, there is no doubt about that But 16core cpus are NOT comming any time soon, not even within a year. So i think 3.2 MacPro will be released its just the question of when. Soon like in the month or later like in the 5 months from now.

 

[iMacmatician]

It could be that Apple got the Xeons early in exchange for not getting the 3.2 GHz models.

I also think you'll see quadcore lap tops when mobile Nehalem is available, if not before.

Current mobile quad-cores are 45 W, too hot for the MacBooks. Nehalem won't change this, although there will be one model (last I checked) that is probably cool enough for the MacBooks.