Probably not. Apple likes to keep their mainboards nice and proprietary. That way when it dies on you in a year after your warranty expires, you're forced to buy a new one from them for $650.00 even though a comparable dual socket 771 server class board using the same chipset with comparable features comes in at $350.00.
The Mac Pros and Dell Precisions are pretty much already SkullTrail minus a few details. I'd bet that SLI support will float over to the Macs and Dells shortly.
you mean apple makes its own boards (though pretty much none of the chips these days) but intend to word it badly, remember they choose efi over bios for a start, apple dont hold back, they exactly what they think makes their product better regardless of conciqences, sometimes this costs them, somtimes it costs us, thats why i love apple as nothing stops them doing it there way, sure a lot of people dont like that way for their products but if you do and the products suit your needs they are the best damn company out there.
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Scott @ Feb 19th 2008 1:18PM
News from the future: Mac Pro gets Skulltrail board option?
Matt @ Feb 19th 2008 1:27PM
Probably not. Apple likes to keep their mainboards nice and proprietary. That way when it dies on you in a year after your warranty expires, you're forced to buy a new one from them for $650.00 even though a comparable dual socket 771 server class board using the same chipset with comparable features comes in at $350.00.
Ken @ Feb 19th 2008 6:24PM
The Mac Pros and Dell Precisions are pretty much already SkullTrail minus a few details. I'd bet that SLI support will float over to the Macs and Dells shortly.
bob @ Feb 19th 2008 10:05PM
you mean apple makes its own boards (though pretty much none of the chips these days) but intend to word it badly, remember they choose efi over bios for a start, apple dont hold back, they exactly what they think makes their product better regardless of conciqences, sometimes this costs them, somtimes it costs us, thats why i love apple as nothing stops them doing it there way, sure a lot of people dont like that way for their products but if you do and the products suit your needs they are the best damn company out there.