MAC 8 core Desktops

Camera Expert said:
The Quad is already overkill.
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Dude the quad is only scratching the surface of getting to the speed level where we need to be... I bog it down to a crawl daily.
 
kai said:
They're not the exact same as their pc counterparts apparently
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They will be EXACTLY the same, identical, to the chips available for PCs
Intel already stated they will not produce chips for Apple, or even release them to Apple before they release them to the rest of the market. you must remember most of Intel's market is still the PC/Windows users.

The only differences can be in how they use the chips, but anything they can do MOBO companies can do the same for PCs

I don't know about you but I thoght the new Mac ads are stupid and belong in the past (they did the same exact ads 20 years ago) there are no big differences anymore between the capabilities now that the hardware is the same, it's just that OSX is a better user experience
 
Well, just learned that it'll be getting a revamped casing design, can't wait! (not that I can afford one :crybaby:)
 
razamalik said:
any news on the intel mac towers? when can we expect announcements?
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WWDC is the 2nd week of August. You will probably hear it then! :costumed-smiley-047
 
man wwsd is looking to be one hell of a launch day for apple.. there is almost a dozen things rumoured to be announced.
 
thats great... i have been holding on to purchase a new editing machine just to see how good the intel-mac tower will perform & i am pretty sure it'l out perform the current quad's easily... a mate of mine just spent over £2600 on a Matrox RT.X2 HDV System & it is blazing fast when it comes to rendering... i would expect the intel-mac to be of similar or better speed... woops i cant wait man LOL!
 
I'm sorry but there are so many misinformed peeps in this post it makes me wanna tear my face off.

-a multi core CPU does not have the same performance as the added individual cores on a megahertz basis. Not by a long shot. Scaling in singlethreaded apps is horrible.

-multi-core computing does not make transfering 300+mb/s streams of video any faster. No amount of CPU power wil allow you to overcome the bandwidth problems of HD video, let alone 4K. (unless you have terabytes of RAM) HDD's are, and have been the bottleneck of computing for quite some time now.

-Apple will not use special faster CPU's compared to it's Windows competitors, simply because Apple's part of the Intel Profit pie is exactly this: point-zero-something. Apple and Windows systems are 99.99% identical.
 
parallax said:
I'm sorry but there are so many misinformed peeps in this post it makes me wanna tear my face off.

-a multi core CPU does not have the same performance as the added individual cores on a megahertz basis. Not by a long shot. Scaling in singlethreaded apps is horrible.

-multi-core computing does not make transfering 300+mb/s streams of video any faster. No amount of CPU power wil allow you to overcome the bandwidth problems of HD video, let alone 4K. (unless you have terabytes of RAM) HDD's are, and have been the bottleneck of computing for quite some time now.

-Apple will not use special faster CPU's compared to it's Windows competitors, simply because Apple's part of the Intel Profit pie is exactly this: point-zero-something. Apple and Windows systems are 99.99% identical.
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gossh u made some really good points :) ... i'd still wait to see what comes out of apple doors before i buy my next machine though...
 
i agree we do need more power i bog my quad all the time
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Yeah, but do FCP and After Effects take advantage of all four cores? I was under the impression that neither do. With the way the market is going these days I think the end user would see a much better performance gain by upgrading the GPU (or even using several at once).
 
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Ok guys Apple has announced the new Mac Pro & its a Quad 3.Ghz Intel Xean system with a lot of expansion & some killer options for graphics... looks awsome! check it out on apple.com
 
i just ordered the 3ghz. Im hoping i can drop my 1900xt ATI card from my Pc system into this system.. somehow i doubt it.
 
congratulations Jarred ! hope it works out for you the way you want. I am gonna be getting it hopefully soon & so far i think i'l get it on the standard configuration & add the RAM & 3 extra Hard drives myself & save a lot of money as apple charges crazy money for RAM... even the 500GB SATA drives seem to be double the market price.
Whats your take on that?
 
I never get the memory upgrades or hard drives from Apple. Go to newegg or Fry's and pick em up for half the price. It's the same and sometimes better quality as the OEM stuff Apple gets.

I may turn in my 2.5 G5 for one of the 3 GHz they came out with today. Let us know how the fans are Jarred.....
 
i just went to newegg lol.. I dont know what apple is thinking.. they bragged about how the system was $1000 cheaper than Dell but the drives are more than 2x the cost for upgrade. I guess you gotta take in consideration paying some dude 80 bucks a minute to unbox the system, open it up, put the drive in etc... but still. Ill do it myself thank you.
 
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