Your Dream Mac Pro

[nylock10]

Well since the current Mac Pro is going to have to be updated some day, post the dream Mac Pro setup you wish Apple would make.

I'd like something like...

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX 1GB (they'll come some day)
ATi 3000-Series Graphic Cards (they'll come some day, too)

Intel X38-based motherboard
Intel 45nm Processors (Dual or Quad Core)

2GB of DDR3 or DDR2 memory

Blu-Ray or HD-DVD compatible

Slimmer Cinema displays (the old displays were slimmer then the current ones, why not make the Cinema displays thin again?) with iSight

Bring back Apple-made external speakers (how about a 2.1 configuration for the base Apple speakers product?)

 

[Nugget]

I just want better graphics card options. Frankly, I think the rest of the machine is still quite desirable.

 

[italiano40]

i would like to see maybe a wireless 30" monitor so i can hide all my wires, i would like to see a 2nd hard drive bay in the macbook pro one for windows and one for mac OSX leopard that is it for me

 

[cube]

- Phenom single-socket quad core.
- DDR3 (but still too expensive).
- Combo Blu-ray and HD DVD burner (but does not exist and still too expensive)
- 2 16-lane x16 PCIe slots (one double wide)
- Highest end CONSUMER graphics card with HDCP.
- eSATA ports front and back
- 2 fully open optical bays
- 2 hard drive bays
- smaller and lighter

 

[Wild-Bill]

- Highest end CONSUMER graphics card options
- eSATA ports
- 6 hard drive bays
- FSB adjustable

 

[Topper]

nVidia GeForce 8800 GTX
and it ain't going to happen

 

[4JNA]

$199.95 after rebate. hey, it works for tigerdirect...

don't care about much else, it's fine as it is.

 

[MacsAttack]

Duel Nehalem-based 8 core Xeon CPUs around 2009/10

Until then there is going to be no significant improvements over the Mac pro I bought over a year ago - so I guess I already have my "Dream Mac Pro"...

 

[Digital Skunk]

- Octo core across the line
- DDR3 RAM
- Blue-Ray in top optical drive and HD-DVD in bottom unless there is a drive that will burn both, then I would just have two of those
- 2 16-lane x16 PCIe slots (one double wide)
- Highest end Professional graphics card with HDCP.
- eSATA ports front and back
- 6 hard drive bays
- bigger and with handles since it will be heavy fully loaded
- Built-in RAID controller
- 2GHz FSB
- WiFi Bludtooth standard

 

[Much Ado]

Maxed out + top end graphics card + can double as batmobile + machine guns

 

[kwfl]

first, it is my dream to own a mac pro (Not the ultimate dream)
however,

people mentioned a lot, but what i am worried about is graphics,
some high end graphics are good
eSATA should be in

 

[Multimedia]

3.2 GHz Dual Harpertown Stoakley-Seaburg 8 Core Mac Pro

- Octo core across the line
- DDR3 RAM
- Blue-Ray in top optical drive and HD-DVD in bottom unless there is a drive that will burn both, then I would just have two of those
- 2 16-lane x16 PCIe slots (one double wide)
- Highest end Professional graphics card with HDCP.
- eSATA ports front and back
- 6 hard drive bays
- bigger and with handles since it will be heavy fully loaded
- Built-in RAID controller
- 2GHz FSB
- WiFi Bludtooth standard

3.2 GHz Dual Harpertown w/1600MHz FSB
800MHz DDR2 RAM
audio as is now
HDMI i/o
eSATA i/o
two 800FW (1 rear + 1 front)
two 400FW (1 rear + 1 front)
6 USB 2 (4 rear + 2 front)
Dual 10GB Ethernet
6 internal HDs
2 Opticals inside including Blu-ray & HD±RW options
Really good graphics options all supporting display rotation and Dual DL DVI - i.e. each card can drive two 30" displays.
Wi-fi BluTooth options
Shipping November 13

 

[disconap]

If you're talking dream, I'd love one with 4 of the 128-core processors that Intel finished testing earlier this year. There won't be cooling systems (or resolved cooling issues) or a mother board with an adequate bus speed to utilize them for quite some time, but hey, I can dream, right? Right.

 

[Genghis Khan]

new graphics

then it just gets technical
- I think the core count has outrun the clock speed...8 cores and only 3.0Ghz? c'mon, we had 3GHz P4's over 3 years ago....MORE SPEED
- faster FSB (2Ghz anyone?)
- new cinema displays
- blu-ray (as that seems to be the way apple are going)
- DDR3 RAM
- if no speakers, than a variety of audio in/out


but more than anything else...i'd actually like to own a MacPro...but to get one that's half decent would nearly empty my poor university students bank account

 

[ocbo41]

More hard drive bays as D.S. mentioned, 6 would be great but I would do cartwheels for 4 bays.....come on my sisters eMachine can hold more hard drives!

 

[Nugget]

More hard drive bays as D.S. mentioned, 6 would be great but I would do cartwheels for 4 bays.....come on my sisters eMachine can hold more hard drives!

Huh? Mac Pros have 4 bays already. Where have you been?

 

[Multimedia]

There Are 6 Possible HD Bays In Mac Pros

Huh? Mac Pros have 4 bays already. Where have you been?

Plus you can put another one under the optical. I have a 750 PATA Seagate under my Superdrive on that bus. So there are really 5 bays - even 6 if you want to turn the optical external.

 

[Digital Skunk]

I forgot to mention...

(1) New thinner Cinema Displays
(2) New 24" and 27" options in Cinema Display lineup
(3) Remove the ungodly cables from the ACDs so that they don't clutter my desk when I have three of them hooked into my Mac Pro and MacBook Pro. I know it may be hard but I can dream right?

 

[Wild-Bill]

More hard drive bays as D.S. mentioned, 6 would be great but I would do cartwheels for 4 bays.....come on my sisters eMachine can hold more hard drives!

I know MM and Nugget already addressed this but......

Um, start the cartwheels then?? The Mac Pro has four hard drive bays. So please execute four cartwheels per bay for us and put it on YouTube.

 

[Nugget]

So please execute four cartwheels per bay for us and put it on YouTube.

Brilliant idea!

 

[ocbo41]

Huh? Mac Pros have 4 bays already. Where have you been?

Hmmm where have I been? lol I better go get the camera and start uploading lol.

 

[Bigheadache]

3.2 GHz Dual Harpertown w/1600MHz FSB
800MHz DDR2 RAM
audio as is now
HDMI i/o
eSATA i/o
two 800FW (1 rear + 1 front)
two 400FW (1 rear + 1 front)
6 USB 2 (4 rear + 2 front)
Dual 10GB Ethernet
6 internal HDs
2 Opticals inside including Blu-ray & HD±RW options
Really good graphics options all supporting display rotation and Dual DL DVI - i.e. each card can drive two 30" displays.
Wi-fi BluTooth options
Shipping November 13

I hope you aren't serious about audio as is now. The realtek ALC850 ain't exactly brilliant, maybe something like the ALC883 or the others which support Dolby Digital Live. I would add hardware RAID to your list

 

[jamesi]

Well since the current Mac Pro is going to have to be updated some day, post the dream Mac Pro setup you wish Apple would make.

I'd like something like...

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX 1GB (they'll come some day)
ATi 3000-Series Graphic Cards (they'll come some day, too)

Intel X38-based motherboard
Intel 45nm Processors (Dual or Quad Core)

2GB of DDR3 or DDR2 memory

Blu-Ray or HD-DVD compatible

Slimmer Cinema displays (the old displays were slimmer then the current ones, why not make the Cinema displays thin again?) with iSight

Bring back Apple-made external speakers (how about a 2.1 configuration for the base Apple speakers product?)

You suggest next generation video cards but only 2 gigs of ram? no less than 4 for a quad

 

[Umbongo]

You suggest next generation video cards but only 2 gigs of ram? no less than 4 for a quad

I imagine he's talking about the base amount.

 

[eric55lv]

it allreday my dream comp