“The new Mac Pro desktop is a thing of beauty. Inside and out this box looks like it is the ultimate desktop computer on the market today,” Gary Krakow reports for MSNBC.
“With two, 64-bit, dual-core Intel Xeon “Woodcrest” processors and it’s sleek design, the Mac Pro is the computer equivalent of a Ferrari, Maserati or Porsche… The Mac Pro is encased in real metal rather than cheap pressboard or molded plastic that looks like metal,” Krakow reports.
“Inside, the Mac Pro has two dual-core processors. That’s the equivalent of having four 64-bit processors. And, you have a choice of dual 2GHz, 2.66GHz or 3GHz chips,” Krakow reports.
“This baby is fast! How fast? Apple tested the Mac Pro’s processing speed while running software by Logic Pro 7.2.2., Soundtrack Pro 1.1 and Final Cut Pro to Xcode 2.3, PyMOL 0.99 and Mathematica 5.2.2 and they said the Mac Pro runs 1.4 to 1.8 times faster than their previous G5 speedster,” Krakow reports. “The Mac Pro comes with Mac OS 10.4 Tiger installed. I also saw a demonstration of Apple’s next operating system, Leopard (OS 10.5) running on the Pro and it looked great.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Michael” for the heads up.]
MacDailyNews Take: A nice bookend to: MSNBC’s Krakow: Apple’s MacBook ‘the best notebook computer I’ve ever used’ – June 28, 2006
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Even an MSN organ can’t deny the truth.
By 2020 when the machines have taken over and John Connor is leading the rebellion, it will be MacNBC.
Things must be bad at Redmond. Even thier own cable channel is talking up Apple……
Microsoft and NBC have split. MSNBC is as MS as just the name. Otherwise do you think the stories would even make it past the editing floor?
Just makes me feel sorry for the chairs.
Huh-huh. He said… “organ.” Huh-huh. Huh-huh.
If the MS management had any sense, they would buy Apple stock. They could make a bundle that way.
The glimmer of light before the dawn.
I want to know what Jonathan Ive has been working on. Organic enclosures?
Microsoft still owns 18% of MSNBC. NBC has the option of buying them out completely by December of 2007.
im looking for mac conner
Seems like this guy is yelling out his article when I read it… hehe, kinda funny.
Ampar,
Ive is having a bit of difficulty molding the Aerogel enclosures, should be 2nd quarter.
Uh, flks, um, well, you see, Microsoft sold off their interest in MSNBC a few years back. It is wholly owned by NBC now.
They just didn’t change the name.
I’m getting my Mac Pro in 5 days! Me happy. Now, if Adobe would get it together…
great that they love the new macs. Now how about making msnbc.com-videoes work on a mac?
I’m trying to get a Mac Pro past the missus (business on a budget, never go into business with your other half by the way), and just want to clarify that if I by the base model I can upgrade the processors at a later date?
Cheers
“If the MS management had any sense, they would buy Apple stock. They could make a bundle that way.”
What do you think they were doing when the invested $150 mil in apple a couple years ago? (Source) Do you think macs with intel chips and bootcamp was an accident?
MSNBC promoting Apple products!?
mycampusguide.com
Airhead reporters writing reviews from press releases…..
This article is the most useless thing I have ever read. Who gives a rats ass if you can write 2 dvd’s at once? I could do that 3 years ago. Whoopie. Nvidia 7300 graphics card? Come on! Teletypes run faster. Dual 2.6ghz processors. Wowza….Thats got to be better than the dual core monsters people get for half the price eh? This guy needs a kick in the head.
That $150M ‘investment’ was to have Apple change the already Gold-mastered MacOS8 discs & packaging to make MS IE the default browser.
[FWIW, When MS got caught lifting line-for-line code from QuickTime in 1997, Apple got an undisclosed (reports of $800M!) settlement and a five year promise for MS Office.]