http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/ Engadget Comments for Apple updates Mac Pro -- "the fastest Mac we've ever made" http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/Mar 27th 2008 2:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/Jan 8th 2008 8:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/Jan 8th 2008 9:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/Jan 8th 2008 8:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/Jan 8th 2008 8:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/Jan 8th 2008 9:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/Jan 8th 2008 9:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/
Second, 8800s dip into the teens quite often on high quality. I'm assuming you're going to be playing this on a nice apple cinema display since your spending alot of money on the Mac Pro, and the lowest resolution of the bunch is the 20" with 1680x1050 all the way up to 2560x1600 for the 30". At 1600x1200 crysis runs at around 28fps with no AA, and like I said plenty of dips into the teens. That's not playing a game, that's watching a slide show.]]>Jan 8th 2008 9:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/Jan 8th 2008 10:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/Jan 8th 2008 10:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/
The 8800GT in the Mac Pro is a $200 option, which would make it LESS than retail, you putz. ]]>Jan 8th 2008 12:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/
The 8800 is not a $200 option. The $200 is the additional money over radeon 2600 that you have to pay. Since apple charges $150 per each 2600 card, that would mean you're paying $350 for an 8800.]]>Jan 8th 2008 1:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/Jan 8th 2008 1:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/
The Mac Pro ships with the Radeon 2600 by default, and when people quote the $2799 price, that *includes* the Radeon 2600. So there's no such thing as paying the baseline $2799 plus $350 for the 8800. Since you can't configure the Mac Pro without a video card, the most you will ever pay for an 8800 is $200.]]>Jan 8th 2008 2:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/
Sounds to me like you want a TOY, not a professional computer, which is what the Mac Pro (thus the "Pro" part) is.

Frankly, i've never, ever known one game worth having an expensive, ultra-powered rig. I'm perfectly happy with my XBox 360 these days, and even in my hardcore PC-building days, I never bothered to waste my paycheck on parts just so I could play the latest game.

That's just stupid and obsessive. ]]>Jan 8th 2008 4:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/Jan 8th 2008 8:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/Jan 8th 2008 8:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/Jan 8th 2008 8:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/Jan 8th 2008 8:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/Jan 8th 2008 9:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/Jan 8th 2008 3:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/
The way multi-core setups work isn't that they're added together, it's that they're truly in parallel. In electronic circuits, for instance, you can wire some lights in either series or parallel. In series (one right after another( --!--!--!-- ) each succesive bulb is dimmer than the one before it, all three don't run at full brightness giving you th power of three bulbs - much like a multi-core CPU isn't the sum of their respective clock speeds. When in parallel...

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All three bulbs light to their full brightness, but use less power to do so. This is how it is with a multi-core setup, in lay man's terms anyway. What this gives you in the terms of processing power is that the little caveat that a CPU can only process one task at a time, if you have 2, 4, or 8 cores, you can do 2, 4, or 8 tasks at the same time...with each task being operated on at 3.2GHz in this case. So that's why 8 cores at 3.2GHz != 25.6 GHz - The circuitry isn't the true reason behind it all either, it's just an example.

Hope it helps!

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Must... Hold out... For new portables... That I actually need.

My girlfriend would flip out if this huge ass box landed on the doorstep.]]>Jan 8th 2008 8:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/
Try freaking out the next time she buys a pair of very expensive shoes. It won't work. She'll just freak out right back at ya, and you lose twice.

Hmm.
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Every tool has its place.]]>Jan 8th 2008 9:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/Jan 8th 2008 9:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/
you're not frickin' married man... come on, grab your damn sack and buy whatever the heck YOU want that YOU can afford!]]>Jan 9th 2008 1:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/
It likely means, between this news and whatever they'll announce at MacWorld, that the existing Mac Pros will be dropping in price Real Soon Now. :D]]>Jan 8th 2008 9:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/Not everyone needs two quad-core processors. I do 3d rendering and that still seems pretty ridiculous. and they need to let other people sell some OS X computers. competition of computers that has their OS would be good.]]>Jan 8th 2008 6:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/Jan 8th 2008 8:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/So their fully upgraded would be fastest mac ever, but not the base version]]>Jan 8th 2008 9:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/Jan 8th 2008 10:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/Jan 8th 2008 10:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/Jan 8th 2008 9:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/Jan 8th 2008 8:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/
Suddenly the Pied Piper of Hypeland leads half a million off the edge of the Brooklyn Bridge!!


Man... (back when I walked 10 miles to school in the snow) my first PC (24MHz) was ~$2400!! With the vast assortment of quality PC's under $1000, and unless you're doing some crazy app that needs a quad core machine for WORK, you're crazy if you think $2800 is not much!!]]>Jan 8th 2008 9:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/
"compatibility, everybody fits with me... all the applications want to get with my virility"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jkrn6ecxthM

i do 290348239048239048 more on my pc than on my mac.]]>Jan 8th 2008 9:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/Jan 8th 2008 9:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/Jan 8th 2008 9:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/Jan 15th 2008 11:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/Jan 15th 2008 6:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/Jan 8th 2008 8:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/Jan 8th 2008 12:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/
-Ax]]>Jan 8th 2008 1:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/Jan 8th 2008 8:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/Jan 8th 2008 9:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/apple-updates-mac-pro/Jan 8th 2008 9:17AM