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- matperk, on 10/12/2007, -5/+82and the career of a (somewhat dumb) apple employee ends today.
- Raian, on 10/12/2007, -2/+75How to piss of Steve Jobs 101.
1) Steal from him
2) Defecate on his trampoline
3) Pre-anounce an Apple product
4) Give him a camera that wont turn on
5) Work less than 160 hours in a week
... this clearly falls under number (3) which means someone is going to die tonight. - robdazomba, on 10/12/2007, -3/+50As a Windows user (who enjoys keeping up on Apple news), I'm pretty disappointed with some of the trolls here. I read a lot of the MS articles on Digg and I see only a few anti-MS trolls over there. Meanwhile, there are loads of anti-Apple trolls in the Mac articles. If you're one of them reading this, please note that it sure makes us non-Mac users look like a bunch of insecure little babies. I for one don't appreciate it and wish you would stop. Thanks.
- thecanadiangeek, on 10/12/2007, -3/+43Tomorrow is a Tuesday!
- mgkwho, on 10/12/2007, -2/+39It's true! (Until they take it down at least)!
http://store.apple.com/Apple/WebObjects/ukstore.woa/wa/RSLID?find=mac+pro&btn.x=0&btn.y=0
-=|Mgkwho - BZKyle, on 10/12/2007, -3/+39Here's a picture in case they remove it...
http://bzfusion.net/apple/8core.png
Doubt they will though. - Gerz1219, on 10/12/2007, -0/+33I'm pretty sure anyone involved in HD film editing, 3D rendering and the like will find a way to use all those cores. Mac Pros are for the professional market, not for gamers or casual desktop users.
- lucas911, on 10/12/2007, -2/+35I'd like to see and upgrade on the MacBook Pro. LED screens? Flash HDD? Some day...
- danielwsmithee, on 10/12/2007, -2/+35Unless he was told to do by the advertising department the further the hype. Apple knows how to drive the rumor machine. It could be an accident or it could just be intelegent advertising.
- fober, on 10/12/2007, -2/+33Fear the octocore.
- xioner, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21the battery trouble is in laptops, not desktops.
8-core laptop... ouch... wow... - j_bellone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19You have any idea how much you'd be paying for a flash hard-drive?
- dscx, on 10/12/2007, -5/+23and...? (dumb ass)
- unleashedlive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18The store just went down. I think they found it.
- adinb, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19I'd happily take an octocore. It means I can do more at the same time with apps that don't properly multithread. And I can get stuff done faster with apps that do properly multithread.
I'm on a dual core iMac, and I'm already feeling "constrained". I want to be able to watch a movie while my browser is open on the other monitor, rip a DVD, run my home music server, run xtorrent all at the same time on the same machine.
And that isn't including running the downstairs appletv that the wife is watching. - windowsrookie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17"We are Busy updating the store"
I think they found it. :) - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14Short answer: Yes. Long answer: Very yes.
- hirstopher, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16Why don't they call it octo-core?
Dual Core, Quad Core, Octo Core.
That would be BADASS! - BZKyle, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14@iammat:
Not an attack or anything, but thats my server. I think it may hold up better then imageshack. - godofpumpkins, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13yeah, somehow things like this always manage to "leak". if companies cared about it, they'd tighten their security around things like this... it takes a lot of work on most company websites to get the live version changed... there's a process, and it's not as simple as "whoops I changed the page by mistake!"
so yeah, it's advertising, but I enjoy it :) - BZKyle, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Kinda sounds like that guy form spiderman...
- TheCount, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Man, I've been waiting to buy a Mac Pro... do I really need 8 cores? Probably not, but I'm glad I waited.
- superal1394, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Will they finally add dual PCI Express X16 slots? cause when they do this would be the gaming rig to end all gaming rigs.
just drop a couple 8800's in here, boot into windows, enjoy Crysis at 1920X1080 goodness - MScrip, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11The good thing is that Apple makes their software work with their hardware. So, eventually all their software will be optimized to take advantage of all those cores.
Imagine OS X and Final Cut Pro using 8 cores... yummy! - craftyguy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9@kroccamen
You can only rip DVDs as fast as your DVD-ROM can read! Yea! - virtualball, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Yeah, I mean because the leak of the G3, G4, iWeb, MacBook, 5G iPod,etc. Were all mistakes...right?
- chiva, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13viruses? as i recall there hasen´t been a mac virus in a loooong time. Vaya con Dios.
- corossus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Glad the Apple I just ate didn't have eight cores.
- Frost9999, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8And since it was the Apple UK store.. you could say we love maths too.
- robdazomba, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9What line of work are you in? It's a Mac *Pro* which means it's intended for professionals and there are lots of processor-intensive jobs out there that benefit from all the power you can give them.
- LoganT, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Something similar happend with the Powermac G5.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMHrFqeMgTc - burke, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Yeah, the HHK is pretty LHY lately. I don't think the NQL can handle all the QPN that HJQR is throwing at it.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10Imagine how quick you could rip a DVD with Handbrake on a Octocore Mac Pro!
- Frost9999, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10I am patiently waiting until CS3 comes out. Then I will ditch the WinXP AMD-X2 whatever-it-is box I currently run and buy a Mac Pro. Probably not going to afford the 8-core but I'm sure CS3 will fly on a quad-core of average spec.. and it will run that lovely OS X that my MacBook has on it... mmmm... OS X. This choice saves also saves me from having to deal with Vista, all 73 versions of it.
- Pfhreak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Somebody's going to really get it...
http://geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/491.html - durandal2005, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8But even if a single application can't use all 8 cores, you can spread your existing applications out across the 8 cores; everything gets a speed increase because now they can command some more CPU cycles. That stops working when you have more cores than you have running processes, but I don't think that's going to be a problem soon :P
Edit: beaten by gerz1219 and adinb - superal1394, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6gaming uses:
core 1: General game logic (loading levels, ammo counts, music, controlling the other 7 cores and ram)
core 2: Artificial Intelligence
core 3: Active Object Physics
core 4: Environmental physics
core 5: Graphics Control
core 6: Controlling online elements and audio chat (live compression/decompression for internet streaming)
core 7: Keeping those torrents downloading smoothly
core 8: Sending all the other computers on your network taunts that its grandmother has more cores than them.
ok, in all reality, 8 cores is ridiculous, today. Imagine what it could be used for tomorrow
and I dont think DVD ripping at speed has been a problem since the G4. I have never had a computer that had a drive faster than the proccessor could decrypt the data. maybe for Blu-Ray and HD-DVD and their "ultra" encryption it will be useful - jacobpellegren, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7UK apple store is down. Clean up on aisle "Mac Pro"
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Exactly, at best hybrid hard disks in MBPs. My personal 'likes' for improvements would be 1GB standard, LED/SED/OED screen, No more latch holes, no more 4200rpm options for HDDs, 100GB 7200rpm available (max is 80 atm).
- mshea, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Why oh why couldn't it have been a widescreen ipod leak?
- wphj, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Not too much of a surprise, but good to hear! Must be coming soon then.
- idean360, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I pee'd myself a little reading that...well done, thats going to be the name of my Mac Pro when I get it, "Octocore" it will strike fear into the hearts of my network enemies.
- mejason69, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5then it would have to be 2x4cores = 8.... don't we just love math....hmmmmm
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Someone must be doing a MASSIVE SEARCH AND REPLACE!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Yah, it was a given that they would go dual quad core as soon as Intel announced the quad core chip
- SVPirate, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@phlanx
RTFA!
@troye
I did a quick back-of-a-cigarette-packet calculation using prices from the best UK suppliers pricewise and I came to around 1200 GBP including tax for a decent rig equivalent in spec to my Mac Pro (Dual 2GHz 5130s, 1GB RAM, GF7300GT, 160GB HDD and BT2.0). My Mac Pro cost GBP 1459 including tax. More over the build quality and noise level of the Mac Pro is amazing for the amount of power under the hood. Other nice stuff like having no wires visible inside (not just a looks thing it also helps airflow) and the easy to access upgrade items, and not having all t he drives stuck right in the way of the fans, make it well worth the extra money (and don't forget to include 79GBP in that for the copy of OS X and the time and screwing around factor if getting it working on a generic PC). Of course on top of that you would likely want a better graphics card - so add 170 to the Mac Pro and 200 to the standard PC.
I don't think you can build a generic PC of the same calibre as the Mac Pro for less money IMHO. For the same money perhaps, but then the Mac Pro ceases to be expensive...
Oh and factoring in the cost of a pair of Quad-Core Xeons would, at UK prices, more than double that 1200GBP and then some, say 2500 GBP approx. A basic Mac Pro with 3GHz CPUs is 2200 GBP, so I'd expect maybe 2499 also for 8-cores? At most maybe 2699?
Oh and as a complete system they also happen to be cheaper than their equivalent Dell and HP models.
I'll stop there.... - t4inted, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4the Swiss Apple Store is down too .... is this really the long awaited update?
*crosses fingers too* - dDuk, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Hey, I know the majority of Windows users here do not troll, but for the few that do...
Get a life.
Mac and Windows (and Linux!) machines will be able to use 8 cores as the technology becomes mainstream, so what's the point in flaming? It's only a computer at the end of the day.
As for the Apple Store link, looks pretty genuine to me, since the store is now 'updating'. Either someone's gonna be fired or 8 core machines are gonna be announced in the next few hours. - BZKyle, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Yeah, although Doctor Octavius (instead of Dr. Octopus ) sounds more like Octo core to me...
- anti_hax0r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3NAB is mid April, they will have the HW out sooner and the new FCP suite at NAB.
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