8-core Mac Pro hands-on, Apple NAB booth tour

Behold, Apple's mammoth, sprawling NAB booth. Ready to show off all the pro apps it announced yesterday, the Apple complex came complete with two demo theaters, dozens of demo kiosks, a few octo-core Mac Pros (which we finally got our hands on for a hands-on -- not that it looks any different), and a small army of black-clad employees ready to school you in the ways of pro media production. We asked for a Compressor 3 demo showing off the octo-Pro's multithreaded rendering, and while the demo didn't actually successfully wrap, we did get to see those eight cores burn through a bit of HD encoding right quick. Also, be sure to check out Apple's massive, 40 Xserve RAID equipped demo media SAN -- it's almost too much aluminum-clad enterprise gear.

8-core Mac Pro hands-on, Apple NAB booth tour

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 18th 2007 12:38AM]

i never realized there were so many n00bs on engadget ...

this debate (apple vs ms) has gone on for 2 decades, i use both mac and win on a daily basis ... and they are both amazing OSs, along with the OS ... Apple makes some good hardware.

One area where Apple and Microsoft are dead even is cooking … I can cook a egg on my Xbox 360 or my Macbook Pro in under 2 minutes.


almost forgot ... did some say they were running Windows Me?

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 18th 2007 12:30PM]

@Sniper:

I know you were "talking about a 5 year old mac running OSX, and a 5 year old PC running Vista", that's why I said:

"That comparison doesn't work"

And gave three substantial reasons why that is absolutely NOT a valid comparison.

Simply repeating yourself is not an argument. You claim that despite inventing none of them, Apple "are the only company brave enough to use" several technologies. This is simply wrong. All of the technologies listed above were both invented AND FIRST USED by others, most often the same people who invented them.

Apple were not first to market 64-bit on a consumer level. Their first 64-bit machine was the G5, which was strongly marketed as a /professional level/ machine (it later became the Mac Pro) just like all the other Sparc/Itanium based machines which had been around for years before it. The first consumer-targeted implementation of 64-bit was the Athlon64. Apple's first consumer-oriented 64-bit offerings were the iMac and Macbook, which came ages afterwards. In both the professional and consumer markets other companies had used 64 bit long before Apple. Or are you going to add some other arbitrary quantifier which means this doesn't matter?

Do you know what the Xerox Alto looks like? Look it up on wikipedia, then tell me it was "to enhance their photocopiers". It's a computer, not a photocopier add-on. Xerox may have had "no intention of making a consumer version" of the ALTO, but they DID make a consumer version of the STAR, years before the first Mac or even the Lisa. Again, Apple didn't invent it, and didn't sell it first either.

The rest of your post is opinionated drivel most of which doesn't bear responding to as it appears to be based on your inability to read my post properly. I didn't say "Microsoft copied the Mac", I said BOTH Apple and MS copied Xerox. And I DID "mention that Intel invented USB"- in fact I mentioned that it was a joint venture with several companies including Apple. But you're wrong that "no-one used it before Apple" - it was a joint venture, just like other joint ventures like the CD or the DVD, everyone started using it at the same time. Do you really think that massive companies like Intel et al would spend millions co-developing something and then be "too scared" to use it? Don't be ridiculous. Apple WERE indeed following suit with all the other far bigger companies involved.

I pity you if you have in fact "been using computers long enough to witness all these changes" - you argue like a teenager.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 18th 2007 4:01PM]

Well, Sniper,it seems you were beaten like a baby seal. You didn't even put up much of a fight; rather, you just proved yourself to be the ignorant/foolish Apple fanboy that you really, truly are.

Other than that, I did some research myself, and it turns out, treetrunk has been doing his homework.

You, my friend, are as blind as all the other Apple drones out there.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 18th 2007 5:33PM]

Enjoy, fanboys.

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=macs_cant

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 18th 2007 11:11PM]

Let me just clear something up.
The only reason why I am ranked so low on 3n64d637 is because of all you whiny, little Mac fan boys who just have to seek revenge on anyone who likes MS, even though half of you Mac fans are running Windows.

I would like to thank the people who responded to my thread and the people who backed me up, even if u insulted me a minute later. Oh and "Zeus the God", great website.

[Fussel Posted Apr 21st 2007 7:01PM]

@JAW

The little white hidden box is the power supply of the Apple Display.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 25th 2007 5:45AM]

Is everybody here insane I mean do you know what kind of computer is that. I can say that right now I'm making the best of my films with that machine and I was a pc user with avid shit. become a mac user just change my professional life to the better and some of the material im working on in a mac you'll see it soon at the blockbuster store!
don't be silly just change to mac and dont say that shit about this computer only for the reason that you can not afford it.