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Apple Updates The Mac Pro

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Re: Apple Updates The Mac Pro

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Post by drzaiusapelord »

tsunamifury wrote: post #36
mosqutip wrote: post #21

"Can't innovate anymore, my ass". Uh... what exactly is being "innovated" here?

Innovation means to change and advance -- the word doesn't really set that high of a bar: - Its a different design - Its new hardware - It advances over the current generation

That's pretty much every computer out there. Is innovation such a low bar now that a new case and the newer Intel CPU is suddenly deserving of innovation praise because it has a fruit logo?

Also am I the other one bothered by the case mentioning being built in the US but designed in California, like California is now its own nation?

Re: Apple Updates The Mac Pro

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Post by asdfs »

[deleted] wrote: post #15
apendleton wrote: post #8

Looks slick, but I was really hoping for something more modern that could drive lots of displays. A limit of three is pretty mediocre; you can do that with other already-available mac hardware. Oh, well.

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Wouldn't you suffer from lower bandwidth than over PCIe, though?

Re: Apple Updates The Mac Pro

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Post by bhauer »

oofabz wrote: post #35
bhauer wrote: post #24

Are the Xeons in question Haswells (that is, E3 v3)?

No, they are Ivy Bridge-E. Haswell-E doesn't ship until 2014.

Oh? I had been under the impression that Haswell Xeons (at least the E3 v3 series) were available "now" [1]:

"Twelve of the chips are available now, but the 13 watt E3-1220L that will be particularly interesting for microservers is not going to be available until the third quarter..."

What am I missing here? Presumably the 12-core option would be an E5, is that it?

[1] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/04/intel_haswell_xeon_e...

Re: Apple Updates The Mac Pro

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Post by veemjeem »

rbritton wrote: post #2

At 1/8 the size will it even have any of the internal storage capacity that I love my current MacPro for?

I think most people who use the MacPro (video/image editing people) probably already use external storage because the 4 drive bays from the old MacPro simply are not enough. I'm guessing they analyzed their users produced something that fit users' needs.
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