Mac Pro

[korimickster]

I thought you Apple fans (like me) might want to check out some of the real time coverage of the huge keynote today.

http://www.macrumorslive.com/web/

That is going to be the best place to check out what is going on real-time. What do you guys think? Will we see the iPhone today? Full screen iPod? Mac-Pro desktops?

 

[CaptainMench]

Ooooo --- 0930 pacific time and the Apple Stores are DOWN!!!

Frig, what could this mean!!!????!!

hee

CaptM

 

[Cynic821]

everyone as giddy as i am?

 

[mjmcneese]

Frig, what could this mean!!!????!!

NEW TOYS!!!

 

[CaptainMench]

Ya -- I'm just worried that it is a new $8,000 US toy!!

CaptM

Ugh, and I've got a rehearsal when this starts!

 

[Jarred Land]

wow.. new mac pro looks insane. 2x the power of the g5 QUAD!!!

 

[mjmcneese]

Did it really say 256 MB RAM standard, though? Shipping today...impressive.

 

[krestofre]

The 256MB sounded strange to me too. Oh well. Built to order options.

 

[Jarred Land]

yeah im ordering one as soon as that page comes up. The wife is gonna kill me.

 

[Isaac_Brody]

wow.. new mac pro looks insane. 2x the power of the g5 QUAD!!!

Sweet. Time to buy a new computer.

 

[CaptainMench]

Baby oh Baby oh BABY!!!

My first new Mac in 2 years!!!

Honey -- time to ducktape the boy's shoes... I'M gettin a mac!!

CaptM

 

[mjmcneese]

The 256MB sounded strange to me too. Oh well. Built to order options.

They just changed it...it's 1GB standard...that's better.

 

[korimickster]

Ah! This is KILLING me not being able to see the graphics!

Interesting note on how Quicktime is supporting closed captioning. I never thought about how screwed disabled people are for most videos on the internet.

 

[The Machinist]

http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/07/live-from-wwdc-2006-steve-jobs-keynote/

They have photos with the coverage for anyone interested.

 

[korimickster]

Amazing. It looks like they are really sticking it to Windows.

 

[The Machinist]

I have to say i think I'll definately be upgrading to Leopard.

Spaces, Time Machine, and the new Mail features are pretty sweet.

 

[korimickster]

I agree. I felt the same way when Tiger came out... I absolutely could not wait. What do you think the "One more thing..." will be? My guess was the Mac Pro, but they unleashed that pretty quick. I can't believe how insanely fast that is going to be. Have to buy a mini-35 first...

 

[The Machinist]

maybe the iphone. That seemed to be a pretty hot rumor in the past week.

 

[Nik Manning]

Mac Pro

Well well. Dual optical drives, dual Xeons, 4 hardrive bays. Not to shabby.:badputer:

The brand new Mac Pro will be based on Intel's Xeon chips, also known as Woodcrest. Based on Core 2 microarchitecture. Run at speeds up to 3 GHz and include 4 MB shared L2 cache. 127-bit vector engine that's even faster than the Veloocity Engine. And they're 64-bit If you compare the performance/watt, you see up to 3x performance per watt than we got in the G5. It's an amazing processor to put in our products, but in every Mac Pro we're going to put two of them. Comparison: G5 quad to Xeon quad. From 54 to 115 increase, 2.1x. From 48 to 76, 1.6x increase. 4.8 to 7.6 From 1.5 to 1.8x faster with applications."

 

[mjmcneese]

iPhone, True Video iPod, new iTunes, etc.