The eagle-eyed folks over at MacRumors spotted an advertisement on Apple's UK store that showed an eight-core Mac Pro desktop. Presumably the Macintosh would use two Intel Quad-core chips. Apple has since removed the ad from the store website. Read more
It's Intel Xeon 5100 processors - not Core 2 Duos - that will be at the heart of the new Mac Pro series announced this morning. In fact, they'll have a dual-processor configuration for four simultaneous cores, replacing the old Power G5 "quad" configuration. And confirming speculation from last week, Nvidia's 7300 GT card will come standard, although an ATI Radeon is being offered as an upgrade. Read more
Apple has finally released patches for bugs in Leopard’s iCal application seven days after Core Security Technologies published the vulnerabilities. Read more
In a bid to win hearts, minds and pockets of FB-DIMM users such as Intel V8, Skulltrail or Mac Pro users, Super Talent launched new FB-DIMM modules working at DDR2-800 speeds. Read more
Three dramatically different builds face off in show of performance, defining the real value of each. Our mainstream system is designed to meet the needs of most users. Who should spend more and who can live with less? Read more
For the second to last day of our System Builder Marathon series, we add a $500 gaming PC to the mix. It's not going to be as quick as our other two builds, but we think Paul was able to get some serious value from this thing. Read more
We're following up yesterday's $4,500 behemoth with a more affordable $1,500 mid-range build. Let's see what sort of performance (and overclocking headroom) you can get when you spend one third of the money. Read more
This month's System Builder Marathon spreads the system prices out even further to $4,500, $1,500, and $500. Is today’s $4,500 system really worth three times as much as an upper-mainstream performance machine? Read more
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Thread : Apple: 8-core 3Ghz Xeons aka "4x4"
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Profile: addict
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http://www.apple.com/macpro/
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Yeah, apparently 3Ghz Clovertowns will be out next week. Here's Charlies' slanted take on it:
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QX6800@150W
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Look, it's obvious what Intel is doing. Last night I watched for the zillionth time one of the best movies ever made, The Godfather. Intel is copying Sonny Corleone when he finds out that his brother in law Carlo just beat the crap out his sister. Sonny runs up to Carlo in the street, smashes his head in with a garbage can and then when Carlo is lying in the gutter gives him one last good swift kick to the ribs. Consider the QX6800 as Intel giving the last kick to AMD. It was unnecessary, but damn, didn't it feel good? |
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Well he does make a good point, the TDP IS going to be excessive. |
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Note, you can build your own box identical to the Apple machine at 1/2 the price from components.
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In fairness, though, it's not a whole lot more expensive than a similar system from Dell. |
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Which just reinforces the amount of premium OEMs add. Yes, support is thrown in there, but for most people it wouldn't be worth it. Most people using / buying one of those systems would probably have enough knowledge to fix whatever went wrong anyway. |
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