appleinsider.com — "Apple Computer is prepping a lavish new version of the Mac Pro that will boast nearly twice the brawn of existing models and form the centerpiece of the company's high-performance professional desktop line, AppleInsider has learned..."
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Closed AccountOct 26, 2006
@maxplanar:somebody should punch you in the stomach until you spit blood.
jimxugleOct 26, 2006
Oh My God!Apple is actually trying to stay ahead of the competition and actually stay ahead of User Demand so that they're well prepared for the future and satisfy their current customers!Those damn capitalists. [/sarcasm]
ahinkleOct 26, 2006
Wow. I can only imagine how much this will really sell for.<a class="user" href="http://one.revver.com/find/video/arcane#_show_video_83654">http://one.revver.com/find/video/arcane#_show_video_83654</a>
goodbrainOct 26, 2006
It really depends on what you are doing. Some people do things that are easily broken up onto 8 cores. A lot more people do things that either aren't easily broken up to run over multiple cores, or just have never been performance limited enough to even make the effort.
hotdamnOct 26, 2006
I know that Cinema 4D for example splits up rendering tasks between the cores and it's awesome.
rickcarsonOct 27, 2006
"other aspects of Neooffice:-not as featured"And thank [insert Deity] for that.I cannot stand Microsoft's 'mess up your bullet points' feature in Word. It drives me nuts.The basic problem is that if you have a document created and edited under several different versions of Word (such as a CV for instance), each version had its own rules for formatting paragraphs, subtly different from all the others. So Word tries to preserve the original formatting within that paragraph. As soon as you cut and paste anything between paragraphs though... all bets are off.This shows up really badly with bullet points, where you paste one in from somewhere else and it will have a slightly different offset than everything else in the list. Incredibly annoying.In a way I feel sad for Microsoft. They've tried to do something really smart, but ended up doing something so unspeakably evil that that single 'feature' is quite enough to drive me straight into the arms of NeoOffice.Slightly less important, but a very nice bonus, is that NeoOffice's Word format can be read by the various different versions of Word that the job agents have. Whereas 'proper' Word documents created in MS Office *will* be unreadable by half of the people I send them to, simply because they have a 'wrong' version of Office (either too old, or too new, and lacking the extensions to read the older formats).For a while there I got so annoyed with the lack of basic IT skills of the job agents that I'd send them my CV as a PDF instead. (Worked pretty well as a filter, removed the clueless bozos straight up, and then if they read the CV and wanted to talk to me about the role because it was a good match, they'd ring up and ask for a Word version, which removed the time wasters (I have ten years of Java, and you want me to do Visual FoxPro? Bog off!), and also gives a pretty good indication of how lazy the agent is, if it takes them a week ot ask for the Word version, you can be pretty sure the role is already filled).
brstilsonOct 27, 2006
Are you saying I stole their idea?I don't even listen to diggnation, and I'm definently sure that neither I nor Kevin rose were the first ones to make that comparison.