“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.
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What about an i7 MacBook Pro with a kick-ass graphics card?
I do agree about the gaming gap in the mac line though.
With steam coming to the mac and others lining up beside them maybe things will change and we will see a good gaming mac.
It’s pretty exciting really, the pc gaming market is coming to the mac, not the other way around.
Now we just need to see how apple responds.
Maybe in the near future we can all look back and credit valve for nudging apple into the desktop gaming market.
Bah 2.0 comes with the enhanced reason module but at the expense of the hyperbole overdrive mechanism. Ah, tradeoffs. =p
I want a Tesla Roadster for $10.
I want a 3 bedroom, 3 bath home with a daylight basement for $120.
I want Safeway to sell me 4 winning Powerball tickets in a row.
I’m getting tired of waiting for them.
There are currently 2 kinds of external video cards, ones that plugs into a pcix16 slot that has a cable that feeds into an external box, and ones that suck
and if they supped up the mini it would still suck
we needs full size harddrive, CPU, and VGA
if apple wants more of the coveted over $1000 Market then they need a REAL gaming rig!
In two years, you might not need a video card for great “graphics”.
Unlimited detail. Done in software.
Apple should buy that company.
They could do it with the iMac, it would be great for LAN parties, it would just need a heftier power supply and better cooling, IT CAN BE DONE.
And we are not asking for a mac pro at a discount, we are willing to pay a fair price, we just want awesome 3D performance equivlent to a PC, I think we could do a headless for $1100 and a gMac for $1400,
Seriously, I just want updated Mac Minis with HDMI so I can have my HTMac. Forget the sentinels. Blu-bagohurt-Ray would be nice, too. I promise I’ll subscribe to upcoming iTunes subscription TV too.
Kevin J. Weise – 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.
Get it up to 88 MPH and you’ll be amazed at what it can do.
Now.
$2379 will get me a i7-960 3.2GHz, 12GB RAM, 2x1TB drives, ATI 5770 with 1GB DDR5, and 2 DVD+/-RW drives from Dell.
What will that get me from Apple? Well for $120 MORE, I can get a 2.66Ghz Xeon, 3GB of RAM, 640GB Drive, NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 512MB, and 1 superdrive.
Gaming machine, the MacPro isn’t. But its hardly all that great for anything else at that price either.
@Big Al:
Spoilers? Spoilers aren’t any good – I need a real big wing on the back of my ride or it’s a no-go.
Mac………Book……..Pro………please…………..
“But its hardly all that great for anything else at that price either.”
Hence the pending hardware update.
Critical though i may be, this statement is just ridiculous:
“…a processor overhaul of colossal proportions extremely soon.”
Few people would be impressed with a colossus. Nor do most people believe that a timeline measured in days or even hours is “extreme”.
The boy genius must think he is “massively” smart, but his metaphors and similes are lacking. One would expect less hype for the “tick” of Intel’s chip release cycle, please.
MacBook fans: WAIT YOUR TURN.
“If there is no spoiler on the trunk, that’s a deal breaker. Will Apple ever get it? Drivers like spoilers.”
It already has two. What did you think those were…..handles?
Whether it’s a core i7 or a Xeon makes a big difference regardless of the processor speed.
A Xeon is a server grade processor that will access way more memory than the i7 desktop version.
That i7 980 would be more in line for the next iMac I’m thinking.
(Steve said big things were going to happen)
Notice the difference between the two.
Xeon 5570 as in top end Mac Pro.
http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=37111&processor=X5570&spec;-codes=SLBF3
core i7 960 Extreme, top of the heap desktop.
http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=37151&processor=i7-960&spec;-codes=SLBEU
Intel is supposed to be introducing an 8 core Xeon this month, I think that one will be in the Mac Pro, or at least I’m hoping.
I would like to see is AMD and Intel offerings in a Mac Pro, but more so I would like to see PPC in the Mac again.
I personally don’t care about which is fastest, as long as it’s efficient, reliable, and consistent.
Bill,
The i7 960, for which you provided a link, is a quad core processor. The one rumored for the Mac Pro is the 980x, a CPU with six cores.
Yeah I’m also getting tired of people whining about mini versions of stuff like Mac Pros. Mac Pro Mini is an oxymoron and will never exist.
Sorta reminds me of when I was working at the Apple Store back in the day. Apple had been selling the 17″ laptops for a short while and some friggin tool came up and asked me if people were “complaining about how big the screen is.” I wanted to kick him in the nuts right there.
“Bill,
The i7 960, for which you provided a link, is a quad core processor. The one rumored for the Mac Pro is the 980x, a CPU with six cores.”
I know, was comparing previous top i7 to Xeon used in current Mac Pro, should have made myself more clear.
The 6 core 980 is the new desktop offering, the new Xeon server version is supposed to be an 8 core.
http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/
I figure since the 5500 series Xeons premiered in the Mac pro before anyone else had them, that they might do it again with the new Xeons.
(5600 series????, Xeon EX????, who knows?????)
It’s about time. And how much will it cost me to plug it into my less-than-a-year-old Quad?
Now … about MDN and Flash … “The page “1 Tip of a Flat Belly: A Surprising New Way to Burn Fat Quickly | WeeklyHealthNews” has content of MIME type “application/x-“
And I’m blocking Pop-Up Pages. I see the ads on the page. Those that open another window Offend me.
A mac for editing? Blu-ray recording?
Just so long as it runs calculator ok.
two independent things –
one – the “Core” line of intel processors is their consumer line. The Xeon line is their pro line. As long as mac pros have intel inside, they will have xeons. Period. This rumor is BS. Perhaps they will get a new CPU bump with the upcoming 8 core xeons that are coming out soon, but certainly they will not be updated with any core processor.
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two – Generally, I love to shoot down the “Apple needs to start selling a ********* to succeed” crowd, but in this case a $1000 headless midtower is way overdue. They would need to engineer something that wouldn’t cannibalize mac pro sales… Perhaps a single quad core consumer level processor, 2 expansion slots and 2 hard drive bays. This would be a much better business machine than a mac mini (more expandable, looks like a ‘real’ computer), better than an iMac for business (headless, cheaper, easier to deal with physically…), better than a mac pro for business (less than half the price of a mac pro..)
Also – this would make a fair mid level gaming machine.
Steve – it’s time. Please. Make it limited enough that pro users still need to buy a pro, but give the geeks something better than a mini.
(Side note – I know this is reaching, but you could sell the mid-tower motherboard + a snow leopard disk for $250 or $300 and finally get the DIY crowd to shut up…)