arstechnica.com — What has two "Nehalem" Xeon processors, eight cores, a non-workstation class graphics card(?!), and a positively stratospheric sticker price? The answer is, of course, Apple's new Mac Pro tower, an aluminum-clad whale of a machine that art director Dave Girard put through its media-creation paces in this massive review.
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mscripApr 7, 2009
>> "But why does Apple always seem to put an underwhelming graphics card into these Pro systems?"Probably because Apple only refreshes the Mac Pros once a year... and this revision started month ago with testing, configuring, etc.If a new graphics card came out 2 months ago... it won't be in this system today.But, you can replace it yourself.. right?
mrbitchApr 8, 2009
@ vibrate RE:"Just install Windows on a separate HD and you have two machines. One for games, and another for everything else."You don't even need a second hard drive. Just fire up OSX's "Disk Utility", and create a second partition, then fire up "Boot Camp" and install Windows into the second partition.The only reason I have a separate bootable Windows partition on my MacBook Pro is because I still like to fire up a game of TF2 every now and then.Windows is my games OS, while OSX is what I use for everything else.
mrbitchApr 8, 2009
You're still stuck in the year 2000 (the year intel released the P4 with HT enabled).You haven't been keeping up with the HT developments in chip design have you?
Closed AccountApr 8, 2009
The big story here is the Nahalem architecture which has been out since November for those of us not hampered by Apple's slow adoption rate. Nehalem Xeon's are the second group released (Core i7 was the first)There is a definite smell of Apple fanboyism trying to attach Apple's name to Intel's ingenuity, but I am sure I will get dug down for pointing out this unpopular truth.FWIW, the DELL T5500 Precision series has better hardware choices as well including the faster versions of the Xeon Nehalem's, but I don't see Ars reviewing that.
lonelytylenolApr 8, 2009
But gmail will still be slow...as always....*sigh*...
lonelytylenolApr 8, 2009
Linux and open source will always win in the end....ALWAYS!
lonelytylenolApr 8, 2009
Finally, a positive comment that actually is helpful....Thanks anubis2night!
Closed AccountApr 9, 2009
sure, but you might have to wait a while for that 4GHz core. ;-)
pamuckrakerApr 14, 2009
Skype is the type of product that doesn't jive with either Apple or AT&T's business plans of monopolization. Neither will talk about the alleged federal violations regarding Skype on AT&T's wireless network. For more information on this issue, here is an article to read: <a class="user" href="http://www.yourlawyer.com/topics/overview/Iphone-Skype-Att-Lawsuit">http://www.yourlawyer.com/topics/overview/Iphone-S ...</a>
twizzlenicoleAug 4, 2009
I do like macs, but yes they are over priced, they suit graphics based things I feel.,