Apple unleashes the eight-core Mac Pro beast
Apple is now offering 8-core Mac Pro power computers, bringing very high performance computing to the Macintosh world.
“Opt for the 8-core Mac Pro and you get the power of two Quad-Core Intel Xeon /Clovertown’ processors running at 3.0GHz,” says Apple’s web site.
“Or choose a quad-core Mac Pro featuring two Dual-Core Intel Xeon “Woodcrest” processors and decide how fast they fly: 2.0GHz, 2.66GHz, or 3.0GHz.”
Apple claims that a 3.0GHz quad-core Mac Pro runs up to twice as fast as the Power Mac G5 Qua.
Apple says that it offers up to 33 million possible configurations of the Mac Pro, with build-to-order options available for processors, graphics cards, memory, hard drives, optical drives, and other features and components.
The Mac Pro accommodates up to four drives and 3TB of storage, and offers eight DIMM slots that can be filled with up to 16GB of RAM. It can also be fitted with up to two SuperDrives, and provides four PCI Express slots.
The eight core Mac Pro is one powerful computer. As mentioned, you can customize it to have up to 3TB of storage, and 16GB of RAM. And if you are so inclined, you can even get two of Apple’s 30inch HD cinema screens for a pretty penny. So, if you have $17,000 to spend, you can get all of the above, and a little more.
PC, say hello to the new Mac.
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October 5th, 2007
I’m drooling for a quad-core Leopard MacBook Pro.
However, goding the PC world by saying, “PC, say hello to the new Mac.” is ironic. I could buy a 64-bit (4MB L2/core) quad-core for my PC and run it on 64-bit Windows XP or Vista before summer. Now I can buy one with 8MB L2 per core. And Windows 64-bit OS’s can run 32-bit applications as well. Apple is just now getting to that and bragging like it’s never been done before.
Apples has high standards, so Apples has to test all hardware extensively before they will allow it into production. That’s great. It’s one of the reasons I’m willing to spend $2500 for one laptop. But the PC builders of this world don’t have to wait. They can always get their hands on hardware before Apple users can. It’s the same shardware manufacturers, afterall. Especially since Macs now run Intel CPUs.
By all means, hype the new stuff in Apples, but leave PC out of it.