Apple Ships 8-Core MacPro

Apple Ships 8-Core MacPro 628

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday April 04, 2007 @09:52AM from the way-more-cores-than-the-earth dept.

ivan1024 writes "The Apple website is announcing the availability of an 8-core Mac Pro. The machine will ship with two 3.0 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon 5300 processors. Older models with the Dual-Core chips remain available. Base model with two 3.0 GHz Quad-Core Xeon processors start at $3997, (albeit with unacceptably minimal RAM or HD space; fully spec'd with dual 30" monitors and tons o' RAM/HD still over $10K... bummer)"

Apple Ships 8-Core MacPro

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This will help with the performance problems ... (Score:5, Funny)

by badfish99 ( 826052 ) writes: on Wednesday April 04, 2007 @09:59AM (#18604175)

Since Apple have now fixed Boot Camp so that you can run Vista, this new hardware will help with the Vista performance problems.

Re:awesome machine (Score:5, Funny)

by Paulrothrock ( 685079 ) writes: on Wednesday April 04, 2007 @10:02AM (#18604217) Homepage Journal

Yeah, Apple's totally missing the boat. If only they made some sort of "mini" Mac for consumers, or a Mac notebook. They could call that a Mac Book or something.

Re:Advantage? (Score:5, Funny)

by UnknowingFool ( 672806 ) writes: on Wednesday April 04, 2007 @10:07AM (#18604293)

I would say that Apple (not Dell) finally put out a machine capable of running Vista. [dodges flying chair]

Re:Technological superiority at last! (Score:5, Funny)

by dsginter ( 104154 ) writes: on Wednesday April 04, 2007 @10:13AM (#18604379)

duel-3GHz

Actually, Intel hasn't yet shipped the Quattro Quad Core Core 2 Dueling Dualist Duo - that is coming later this month.

Apple is using the Core 2 Quad in this box (which lacks the swashbuckling extensions).

Re:Technological superiority at last! (Score:5, Funny)

by Carthag ( 643047 ) writes: on Wednesday April 04, 2007 @10:13AM (#18604387) Homepage

You sound like the PC version of the Mac guys you gripe about. :)

Re:Advantage? (Score:5, Funny)

by xouumalperxe ( 815707 ) writes: on Wednesday April 04, 2007 @10:13AM (#18604393)

composting effects
Hmmm... Didn't know macs were into manure these days.

$175 keyboard (Score:0, Funny)

by athloi ( 1075845 ) writes: on Wednesday April 04, 2007 @10:16AM (#18604451) Homepage Journal

Last time I bought a Mac, in the 1980s, they charged me $175 for the extended keyboard. Do they still do that?

Re:What do use it for? (Score:5, Funny)

by woolio ( 927141 ) writes: on Wednesday April 04, 2007 @10:19AM (#18604529) Journal

I don't see the average consumer being smart enough to lobby for multi-threaded software....?

I don't see the average programmer experienced enough to write multi-threaded software...

An apple with more than one core ... (Score:5, Funny)

by ThirdPrize ( 938147 ) writes: on Wednesday April 04, 2007 @10:22AM (#18604571) Homepage

that would be some sort of freak of nature. I wouldn't eat it.

Re:What do use it for? (Score:2, Funny)

by howlingmadhowie ( 943150 ) writes: on Wednesday April 04, 2007 @10:23AM (#18604609)

probably best to install gentoo on it and compile everything yourself

Re:8 cores ought to be enough for anyone (Score:5, Funny)

by Quiet_Desperation ( 858215 ) writes: on Wednesday April 04, 2007 @10:45AM (#18605003)

But seriously, unless you're gonna keep all 8 cores cooking a lot, or you do a lot of seriously high-end video work or something else where speed above all else matters, they'll be a waste.
OK...
I'm sorry, but is Apple running a "Buy an 8-Core Mac for your grandma" campaign or something?

Re:Technological superiority at last! (Score:3, Funny)

by ProfessionalCookie ( 673314 ) writes: on Wednesday April 04, 2007 @10:54AM (#18605187) Journal

Yeah I'm running him in bootcamp.

Whiney Mac Fanboy (Score:5, Funny)

by ColdWetDog ( 752185 ) writes: on Wednesday April 04, 2007 @10:55AM (#18605195) Homepage

As it is I have to wait several days for even small galaxy models to complete.

Come on, it took GOD a whole week to make just this puny little planet and you complain that it takes several days to make a whole Galaxy!
In my days, we had to ... oh never mind.

Re:Advantage? (Score:5, Funny)

by Steve--Balllmer ( 1070854 ) writes: on Wednesday April 04, 2007 @11:00AM (#18605327)

"Hmmm... Didn't know macs were into manure these days."
Well, they are able to boot into Windows since the Intel switch...

Re:a good chunk... (Score:5, Funny)

by ProfessionalCookie ( 673314 ) writes: on Wednesday April 04, 2007 @11:05AM (#18605425) Journal

flint/flame/inferno/etc./etc
...All we ever got was a little Spark *sniff*

Re:Advantage? (Score:4, Funny)

by noewun ( 591275 ) writes: on Wednesday April 04, 2007 @11:07AM (#18605483) Journal

Are you kidding? I will finally be able to use Word, with check-spelling-as-you-type on, and not have a lag between pressing the key and the character appearing on the screen!

Re:Technological superiority at last! (Score:3, Funny)

by Geoffreyerffoeg ( 729040 ) writes: on Wednesday April 04, 2007 @11:15AM (#18605677)

I always give my girlfriend shit when something bad happens on her mac, I say, "That doesn't happen on PCs." And now her 6-month old Powerbook is slowly crapping out, and as it dies, I will be vindicated. Ahhhh, sweet vindication.

How can you possibly love your platform more than your girlfriend? Even if my girlfriend were using a Commodore 64, I'd still support her choice of platform.

Re:Advantage? (Score:4, Funny)

by bareman ( 60518 ) writes: on Wednesday April 04, 2007 @11:22AM (#18605833) Homepage Journal

He did mention TV production...

Re:Advantage? (Score:5, Funny)

by drinkypoo ( 153816 ) writes: <drink@hyperlogos.org> on Wednesday April 04, 2007 @11:29AM (#18605987) Homepage Journal

Tons of 3d/4d rendering software can use these things.

4d? Are you sending your rendered images into the past, or the future?

ObComment (Score:1, Funny)

by cain ( 14472 ) writes: on Wednesday April 04, 2007 @11:33AM (#18606081) Journal

Imagine a single Beowulf machine of this!

Re:What do use it for? (Score:2, Funny)

by Frumious Wombat ( 845680 ) writes: on Wednesday April 04, 2007 @11:36AM (#18606149)

That's just... wrong. If you have a 570 lying around to run gentoo on, you should at least be typing, "emerge written_language", or "emerge photosynthesis". Oh wait, sorry, that's a 590 I'm thinking about.

Re:Advantage? (Score:5, Funny)

by Altus ( 1034 ) writes: on Wednesday April 04, 2007 @11:44AM (#18606331) Homepage

thats impossible even for an 8 core machine.

please stop spreading this misinformation.

Re:Advantage? (Score:5, Funny)

by wass ( 72082 ) writes: on Wednesday April 04, 2007 @11:55AM (#18606543)

hat is what hose computers are designed for.

Hose computers are great, especially when you connect them up to a series of tubes.

Re:a good chunk... (Score:2, Funny)

by gb506 ( 738638 ) writes: on Wednesday April 04, 2007 @12:05PM (#18606709) Homepage

How about the ridiculous price of said hardware? I went on Newegg and spec'd out components similar to the "entry-level" $4000 Mac Pro... for about $2000.

I was wondering when the first "but I can build one for $13.45 cheaper" turd would float to the surface. Here's a clue, bud: most people who use this type of hardware (vid editing, 3d, graphics in general) don't get their jollies sourcing components on the net and assembling a machine in their basement. They want to do actual work.

Re:parent is not off topic (Score:3, Funny)

by skinfitz ( 564041 ) writes: on Wednesday April 04, 2007 @12:32PM (#18607169) Journal

This is apple.slashdot and the usual rules do not apply. Mod points here are to be used to mod down when a comment upsets someone, or is not explicitly positive about Apple or one of it's products.

They may be used in a positive manner for posts along the lines of 'omg I luv apple' and 'mee too' etc.

Re:Technological superiority at last! (Score:4, Funny)

by NDPTAL85 ( 260093 ) writes: on Wednesday April 04, 2007 @12:50PM (#18607495)

Obviously you aren't a true geek.

Re:Advantage? (Score:5, Funny)

by istartedi ( 132515 ) writes: on Wednesday April 04, 2007 @01:48PM (#18608497) Journal

Usually E and the spacebar wear out first. I wonder what this guy was doing with his keyboard. Then again, maybe he just missed his t-time.

Re:Advantage? (Score:2, Funny)

by stokessd ( 89903 ) writes: on Wednesday April 04, 2007 @04:26PM (#18611161) Homepage

It's part of their "Core Excrement" framework which is primarily used so people migrating from windows aren't so lost.

Sheldon

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This will help with the performance problems ... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:awesome machine (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Advantage? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Technological superiority at last! (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Technological superiority at last! (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Advantage? (Score:5, Funny)

$175 keyboard (Score:0, Funny)

Re:What do use it for? (Score:5, Funny)

An apple with more than one core ... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:What do use it for? (Score:2, Funny)

Re:8 cores ought to be enough for anyone (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Technological superiority at last! (Score:3, Funny)

Whiney Mac Fanboy (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Advantage? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:a good chunk... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Advantage? (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Technological superiority at last! (Score:3, Funny)

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ObComment (Score:1, Funny)

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