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What would you like to see in the next update of the mac pro (semi-realistic please)

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shyataroo

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Hell... Wanna join me?
1. the option of using a 32GB SSD instead of ram, it will use less energy take up less space and make less heat leaving room for...

2. upto 4 Nvidia Quadro FX 5600 (BTO, naturally) or Nvidia 8800GTX (8900?)

3. Blu-ray/HD-DVD drives (choose which you want or have one in either drive bay)

4. 1TB HDDs (cause they have them out in 3.5 inch enclosures)

5. 4 Quad-Core Xeon Chips...or maybe 4 CELL processors (if you want to be ridiculous, or just bring back the POWER series-based processors)

6. RE-DESIGN and I mean a REAL RE-DESIGN not the new iMac style redesign.

7. some extra PCI-X areas for whatever.
 
Did you just say use an SSD instead of ram?

No.. ram is still way faster than SSDs.

although FB-RAM kinda sucks, I wish they wouldve gone with ECC-DDR2
 
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Harpertown
SS
2GB standard
500GB standard
8500GT

With new and lower priced BTO options (mainly RAM and HD)
 
shyataroo said:
1. the option of using a 32GB SSD instead of ram, it will use less energy take up less space and make less heat leaving room for...

2. upto 4 Nvidia Quadro FX 5600 (BTO, naturally) or Nvidia 8800GTX (8900?)

3. Blu-ray/HD-DVD drives (choose which you want or have one in either drive bay)

4. 1TB HDDs (cause they have them out in 3.5 inch enclosures)

5. 4 Quad-Core Xeon Chips...or maybe 4 CELL processors (if you want to be ridiculous, or just bring back the POWER series-based processors)

6. RE-DESIGN and I mean a REAL RE-DESIGN not the new iMac style redesign.

7. some extra PCI-X areas for whatever.
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Here's my Humble Opinion:

Number 1, I think the ram stays the same or gets a slight upgrade.

Well Number 2 sounds kinda realistic, but knowing Apple, they will choose something crappy, AGAIN for their base video card.

Number 3 is a possibility, but real expensive at the moment. I'm sure the "Pro's" could afford this one.

Number 4 is possible, the iMacs got 1 terabyte drives, I'm sure the Mac Pro will too.

Number 5, Well I can only see all OCTOS for the next update.

Number 6, I don't see a redesign of the Mac Pro happening. What's wrong with it now? It's twice as expandable as the G5, quieter, and the design hasn't really shown its age.

Number 7, eh, they never really expand the amount of PCI slots.
 
1) Support for 8800Gxx's, either as a BTO or simply the drivers to run the PC versions.

2) At least one regular PCI slot for legacy cards, or even the PCI-X (since the PCIe options are so limited).
 
8800GTX as the high-end video card option
dual quad-cores across the board - at no additional cost
2 gigs FB-DIMM standard.
At least ONE PCI slot.
e-SATA port in the back.

...and BTO options that don't cost twice as much as they do on the open market
 
Wild-Bill said:
8800GTX as the high-end video card option
dual quad-cores across the board - at no additional cost
2 gigs FB-DIMM standard.
At least ONE PCI slot.
e-SATA port in the back.

...and BTO options that don't cost twice as much as they do on the open market
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hell froze over

i agree with most of those points

for a 4 core system , 2 gigs standard makes sense

then again , since when have apple priced rationally
 
Of note, Intel plans to shift their production of Xeons to 4 cores and more. Dual core will represent a very small portion of production in the coming year beginning with Harpertowns by the end of Septemeber.
 
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