“When Apple unveils its Power Mac G5 replacement at its Worldwide Developer’s Conference (WWDC) next month, the top-of-the-line computer will sport a new enclosure,” Ryan Katz reports for Think Secret.
“While specifics were not disclosed, the new computer’s case is said to be substantially different enough to make the distinction between the new Intel Core 2 Duo-powered system and its PowerPC predecessor easy to spot,” Katz reports.
“Configurations of the new Mac are said to be similar to the most recent Power Mac G5, including a single dual-core processor in the low- and mid-range systems, and a dual dual-core (quad core) system at the top,” Katz reports. “Meanwhile, sources say that a new enclosure is waiting for the MacBook Pro and will be released when that system adopts Intel’s mobile Core 2 Duo processor.”
More in the full article, including new Intel-based Xserve info, here.
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Channel Z, there are just too many inaccuracies and misstatements in your comments to bother refuting. Try to have a nice day.
For the love of Fair Use please don’t wait until the DRM chips are in the monitors. If we refuse to buy the things they’ll have to give up. If a critical number of users buy into all the copy protection they can sell us we’ll never get rid of it. If we keep the majority from moving into a DRM encumbered scheme maybe they will lighten up.
No chance, all computer makers are doing it. So is Microsoft, but they are so behind in everything else that EFI is only coming for 64 bit processors, not these lame ass 32 bit duo cores.
Look how many fools are buying up Intel processor based, thus EFI based, MacBook’s.
They don’t know any different what’s in store for them later when DRM starts tightening up.
Right now as it is, many Apple programs and processes contact Apple without no explaination why it does it.
Some can be figured out, many just do it regardless.
Adobe software is now requiring root level install and phones home to verify the installation once in awhile.
Install Little Snitch and remove all the default rules. Start from nothing and watch how much crap is going out of your machine with no apparant purpose.
It’s bad. Really bad. Apple knows too friggging much.
Of course Apple would have to redesign the MacPro (formerly known as “PowerMac”) case. You’ll have a lot of room now that the MASSIVE heat sinks would be scaled down. That will leave a lot of room for more features. I can hardly wait. My goose bumps has goose bumps.
HAPPY 4TH OF JULY, Everybody!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bring on the hots dogs, steaks, and potato salad. Some BBQ wouldn’t be bad either.
My rumor:
The New Mac Pro will be a Holographic core with a dual twist valve half switch mix converter that will power the new processing features.
The new body casing will be a die-cast unobtainium base that hovers on a full body of Dozentexistium alloy anti-gravity transverter mass controller. That all mean absolutely no heat generated. EVER!
But I’m not sure what the color will be.
Happy 4th. – for the U.S. citizens– and anyone else in the world that cares to celebrate with us.
Well, I once knew four women. Jill, Sandra, Cindy, and Gloria. Jill was a complete b!$%^. Sandra couldn’t keep her mouth shut. Cindy was saving herself. And then there was, Gloria. The best. The most amazing. The kind of woman that makes you glad you live in a free country.
So, all I can say then was thank the Lord, Gloria’s Fourth. Yeah! That’s right.
Have a glorious fourth and God bless America!
I hope they make additional space for more than two SATA drives… it would be really cool to have a 6 disk internal raid for HD work.
At the very least, they should make the internal SATA drives easier to access. I always worry I’m going ot damage the SATA cable when swapping drives…
Apple needs to pare down the “handles” on the G5 so it can fit in a standard 4-post rack unit without our having to saw the damn things off. The G4 handles were removeable, and rackmount hardware was available via 3rd parties. Even better, many PC cases simply slide in the rack on rails (e.g. HP 8200, etc..)
Racks are not just for xServes. Many pro audio and video people have them for various components including RAIDS and other hardware (e.g. AVID video editing systems.) And AVID claims that many of their Mac customers migrated to PCs for this very reason – or have held off on upgrading their computers from G4’s.
I think the new Mac Pro enclosure should be modeled after crustaceans. Extreme temperature sensing, fast appendages, claws for snapping at avowed Windows users and a tasty center for an impromptu romantic dinner with a MacBabe.
“Apple to unveil ‘Mac Pro’”
Actually, in the mideast, I think the Macs are expected to keep wearing their burkas.
Mac Genius:
Apple may offer enclosures with and without handles just for the reason that you present.
Don’t worry MacGenius, the next version of the Mac tower will be even bigger.
Oh, is this drive going in the new Mac Pro’s?
http://panasonic.jp/p3/bd/index.html
Channel Z –
“Intel has a Kensfield (sic) QUAD processor that’s slightly better than a dual dual-core PowerMac (quad) and will most likely be the processor used in the new Mac Pro’s Quad.”
Last I heard about it, the Kentfield chip was scheduled for commercial release in early 2007. Looks like we’ll be getting dual-core Conroes or Woodcrests next month.
As I’m a professional photographer looking to adopt Aperture, I would like to see a quad-processor machine with room for at least three internal drives: one for system & apps, and two others as a striped RAID to speed up Photoshop. The current inability to set up an internal RAID without putting the OS on it (absolutely not) is a gross oversight on Apple’s part, considering the needs of many of its pro users for a fast internal RAID. Yeah, I know, there are third-party kits for adding internal drives, but I’d be leary of compromising the carefully engineered cooling system.
Since Aperture taxes the GPU so heavily, it’d be nice to see SLI (?) graphics, which, as I understand it, allows one to harness the power of two GPUs. Right now, a dual 2GHz G5 with X800 graphics is pretty much the absolute minimum for professional use of Aperture.
Channel Z = andy = MacDude = paranoid schizophrenic. Not everyone is out to get you. Not even Apple. Not even me.
Channel Z/MacDude, for God’s sake I wish you’d get a life! if you’re going to continue posting your tired old rhetoric at least change your style of copy so it isn’t so obvious. DRM/EFI blah blah blah No one cares!
To optimize Photoshop, it’s not about the hard drive speed anymore.
It’s a 64 bit Mac G5, lots of RAM and Tiger. You work entirely in memory. Fsck caching to the hard drive for files over 2 GB. 40% faster.
And you can always get a 8 SATA port PCI card and external SATA drives, with a cable to each drive and you can RAID O that way for working with RAW images, saving the completed work to a regular drive in your off hours using auto backup software.
Far as speeding up your boot drive, look at the 10,000 RPM 150GB Western Digital Raptor (with a SATA PCI card if your G5 isn’t a Quad.)
And you can make a external Firewire 800 drive a boot drive with the internal SATA ports a pair of RAID O, 10,000 RPM drives for about 175 MB p/s writes.
I would also avoid putting more drives inside the case of the G5, taxing the power supply, blocking airflow, more heat and other nasties. Since external SATA drives are avaiable at LaCie.
You need to check out Barefeats.com more often.
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Last I heard about it, the Kentfield chip was scheduled for commercial release in early 2007. Looks like we’ll be getting dual-core Conroes or Woodcrests next month
Apple has been able to announce new products and deliever them a few months later. I wouldn’t be surprised if Apple gets their mitts on enough Kentfields to beat everyone else, after all Apple is adopting EFI rather quickly, having Intel make their MOBO’s etc.
Apple said “by the end of the year” for the Mac Pro’s to arrive. That’s darn near early 2007.
I won’t buy a dual core box, I already got one from three years ago. So does most everyone else.
By the way Apple has been hobbling Mac OS X lately, it’s slight but it’s there.
Nope, when the Dual Quads come with BlueRay, that’s my green light.
Macintosh Pro.
We’ll just call them MacPros for short.
Channel Z/MacDude/Static Mesh
WE DON’T CARE.
fsck:
Since it is both unethical and impossible to block the toneless, torpid, and tumid posts of tedium, tripe, and twaddle from this tiresome and turgescent trio of twits, it is necessary to ignore them.
Consider the “Page Down” and “Down Arrow” keys, I do.
Honestly, if i’m ever suffering from insomnia i’d love to have Channel Z/MacDude/Static Mesh come round and bore the living daylights out of me. I reckon I’d be asleep for a decade.
[i[The New Mac Pro will be a Holographic core with a dual twist valve half switch mix converter that will power the new processing features.
The New Mac Pro will be a Holographic core with a dual twist valve half switch mix converter that will power the new processing features, a slice of lemon and a little umbrella.
This rumor is like…uh…”No sh#t, Sherlock!” news.
Who couldn´t have predicted or written up a rumor like this?
(Trouble is delivery won´t be until January 2007….)
The first ones are going to be underpowered using the chips available now. (Apple has been waiting for chip production to catch up.)
In January look for the big boys to be released with new chips…if Leopard is released on time….
Looprumors said in February that “the Mac Pro will house quad Intel processors on even the base model”.
Sounds more logical than Think Secret’s predictions.
http://looprumors.com/index.php?mac-pro-to-have-quad-processors
Why buy a single dual core Mac Pro instead of an iMac? The new Intel chips, the Core 2, are they not 64 bit and shipping at 2.6 to 3 GHz? That would be a bit more performance than the iMac
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So Channel Z, how is OS X “hobbled”? I admit I sure hope Leopard’s Finder is faster….
MDN magic word “programs” I hope my programs run faster on a new Mac
BOCK bock bock bock <Hic> … BOCK!