Apple Mac Pro now Eight-Core
Apple has updated its Mac Pro high-end desktop line by offering an option for eight-core, Intel Xeon-based processing. The eight-core workstation, which Apple announced on its Web site Wednesday as a build-to-order unit, houses two 3.0 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon 5300 “Clovertown” processors. It features 8 Mbytes of L2 cache per processor (16 Mbytes total), a 128-bit SSE3 vector engine, 64-bit data paths and registers, and 1.33 GHz, 64-bit dual independent front-side buses. Quad-core Mac Pros sport two Dual-Core Intel Xeon 5100 “Woodcrest” processors at speeds of 2.0 GHz, 2.66 GHz or 3.0 GHz, with 4 Mbytes of shared L2 cache per processor (8 Mbytes total).
All Mac Pro units have 667MHz DDR2 ECC fully buffered DIMM memory (eight slots for 16 Gbytes maximum), four 3Gb/s Serial ATA hard-drive bays for up to 3 Tbytes of storage, and two optical-drive bays for 16x SuperDrives with double-layer support (DVD+R DL, DVD+/-RW, CD-RW). Connections include two FireWire 800 ports, two FireWire 400 ports, five USB 2.0 ports and two 10/100/1000BASE-T Ethernet interfaces. In addition, there are four PCI Express slots (with support for 16-lane cards), one of which contains an Nvidia GeForce 7300 GT, ATI Radeon X1900 XT or Nvidia Quadro FX 4500 graphics card, for support of up to eight displays. Optional wireless networking includes 802.11n AirPort Extreme and Bluetooth 2.0 + Enhanced Data Rate (up to 3Mb/s).
The standard configuration Mac Pro, priced at $2,499, comes with two 2.66 GHz dual-core Xeons, 1 Gbyte of memory, an Nvidia GeForce 7300 GT graphics card (256 Mbytes of memory), a 250-Gbyte Serial ATA hard drive and a SuperDrive. The same configuration with two 3.0 GHz quad-core Xeons runs $3,997. I’m not sure if that’s the price which would be majority of users willing to pay for new computer, even if it’s Mac. I know everything from this brand is extremely popular in the USA, but we’re way more calm here in Europe and if I should talk about notebooks at least, many people still prefer “common” laptops from manufacturers like Sony, Toshiba, Dell or Acer…
kick ass.
sick , now that software that allows you to run windows on it needs to be released and all will buy macs!
That’s one big power house. But it’s mac..
What do you mean by “but it’s mac”? If you truly don’t like Mac OS X, simply install Windows or linux on it. But hey: I’d first give Mac OS X a whirl. It’s worth it.
Looks now more like a game machine then a movie and picture workstation now
Hi, I’m a MAC
and you’re still a PC
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until I can afford a MAC I will stick with a PC+Linux
I know that OSX is way better that MSWin but the price is still a little high for many of us.
PCs are still better, Steve Jobs can shove those faggot ass designed Macs up his ass. Those are for people who don’t know what the shit to do on a computer, so they surf CNN.com and yahoo mail. Macs will always be inferior to PCs. Sorry all you Mac Whores.. remember you guys didn’t even stand a chance till Big Daddy Intel reached out to make a few more billion. Pathetic Macs. All that Steve Jobs proprietary hardware got you down like herpes?
Awesome-O, i would have to agree with you, pc will alwasy be better. For $3,997 i could build something better, and a Gforce 7300 GT, god that is so old. Well i guess MAC is somewhat trying….
Yeah, the testament to how bad Macs really are is that they had to find a way to make Windows work on it so you could actually use software on their systems.
ignorance is a common virtue in windows users
awesomeo the only thing pathetic is your true ignorance for computers! mac always has lead. its just u poor people cant afford 1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! love my g4