“According to anonymous sources, the upcoming Mac Pro will rock the recently announced Intel Core i7-980x processor which will clock in at a fast 3.33GHz with TurboBoost to 3.6GHz and feature 6 cores and 12 threads of processing power, a 32nm architecture, Socket LGA1366 and 130W TDP,” Hodgkins reports.
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “David E.” for the heads up.]
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Some would call that snappy.
Typical…
And it will have anti-gravity, read minds, have a 7 day battery, and fold up and fit in your shirt pocket. …..
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Why cannot Apple hype be normal hype instead of Star Trek hype???
Just a thought,
en
Hopefully it won’t get bogged down by poor Flash performance.
@ElderNorm:
I agree with you except the part about the battery- it’s a Mac Pro, not a MacBook Pro (so no battery).
Just thought I’d mention it…
So is that still a Xeon or is it a step down from that? If it’s not, why the Core naming? It’s confusing.
And Flash will only spike to 50% on them. HA.
Can any of Apple’s current software access all this new power? I know it’s fairly useless to any other such as Msoft ofc or anything Adobe.
But will it multitask?
@ElderNorm & @MacMan,
What?! No time machine?!! If I can’t go back in time to correct some things in the past, then I’m boycotting this release.
Will it have a TURBO button?
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If there is no spoiler on the trunk, that’s a deal breaker. Will Apple ever get it? Drivers like spoilers.
Eider isn’t that actually your hype rather than Apple’s hype or am I missing something?
Giggity! Need to find a buyer for my 2008 model mac pro.
Any rumours on MBPs?
@Jeeve Stobs
I concur.
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“So is that still a Xeon or is it a step down from that?”
Despite Intel’s silly naming scheme, this would be quite the step up from a Xeon… and Xeons were pretty good to start with.
In further updates, Mac Pro to continue to be a ridiculously expensive and only way to get a better graphics card and continue to be enclosed in a case that needs a forklift to move and still not have.
Mac Pros = niche market.
Who cares how expensive they are. If you are concerned about price, get an iMac.
Cheers!
wow, awesome, great /sarcasm
k, now can you make a mac pro mini based on the desktop i7 and a real gaming card?
please for the love of GOD give us a mac tower that doesnt cost $2000 !
MacMini Pro
MacPro Mini
gMac
hook it up apple… I am sick of waiting.
I want a hundred cores and a thousand gigs for my home media multiplex which will also be capable of deploying hundreds of Matrix-style sentinels FTW. And then maybe I’ll be satisfied. Snap to it JobsCo!
Dodecaphonic with the moon rock needle…
if it is online it must be true!!
The Mac Pro’s primary market is for video editing, servers, power junkies, etc. The Mac Pro’s market is *NOT* computer gamers. For it’s target market, the Mac Pro more than delivers for its price.
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“k, now can you make a mac pro mini based on the desktop i7 and a real gaming card?”
First of all, really? A desktop i7 and a high-end video card in a mini-like device? You want to PAY for a device that will melt itself? How hot do the QC iMacs get? Think about it. Mac Pro mini is an oxymoron.
Second, you mean a “good” *video* card; good is relative. The 4850 you can get in an iMac is more than enough for most people. If you want a machine specifically for *high-end* gaming, then you don’t need a machine that runs Mac OS X anyway, so just build a PC and stop whining. At any rate, the Mac Pro doesn’t have “support” for the option of two or three OC’ed 295 GTXs in SLI with liquid cooling, so it’s pointless regardless of price. Also, if you could drop a grand or two to buy those graphics cards, you can drop another two on a computer to run them in.
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“please for the love of GOD give us a mac tower that doesnt cost $2000 !”
Apple has already done this. The Mac Pro does not cost $2,000. It costs $2,499.00, plus tax, less any applicable discounts. Just sayin’
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“I want a hundred cores and a thousand gigs […]”
A thousand gigs? Is that like a terabyte? =p
I’m definitely likin’ the whole sentinel deployment thing. Brings a whole new meaning to the phrase “botnet.”
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The 4850 is a watered down mobile card, it’s a JOKE as far as real gaming cards go.
I don’t care if it gets hot, I just want a gaming rig that isn’t a gay pc and isn’t a $2000 mac, I could e satisfied with a gaming iMac, but I want a better cpu and video card!!!
Apple currently uses 0 mainstream desktop CPUs and video cards, they go from mobile hardware to workstation grade hardware, I woulld love a tower that has room for 2 standard hard drives, a full size pcix 16 VGA slot (or two), and uses a standard desktop chip, if u are building a true gaming machine today you will not be getting a mac, this needs to change!
The mac mini really only needs a good boost in the gpu to be a decent gaming machine.
Also they are finally coming out with external graphics cards. No clue if they will work with macs but they are still in the very early/expensive stage.
Look em up, it’s pretty cool.
In other news imagine using onlive on the ipad! I think apple should buy them. Someone is going to eventually.