Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 11th Aug 2006 08:48 UTC, submitted by alcibiades
Ars does its usual
thorough stuff on the new Mac Pro. According to Ars: "The interior layout is a big win for Apple. Four drive bays is adequate for a pro tower, and the fact that each drive is on its own bus is a smart design decision. It's also great having room for a second optical drive. In terms of performance, it's good news - with a caveat. While the fully-buffered memory, the screaming-fast Xeon 5150s, and the 1333MHz FSB are all great, Apple's video card choice is most definitely not. It doesn't fit, and it detracts from the overall experience. Despite that, the Mac Pro is a very solid graphics or video editing workstation. When all the major 'pro' applications have made the transition to Universal Binaries, the PowerPC years will be little more than a memory."
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RE: A shame they didn't try a Linux on it...
by ThanhLy on Fri 11th Aug 2006 20:17
in reply to "A shame they didn't try a Linux on it..."
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I bet a 64-bit Linux distro would probably outperform both Mac OS X and Windows XP on the Mac Pro, but I guess we'll never know...<sigh>...
Uhh... this is not the be all, end all review of a Mac Pro. It's only been 1 week. Just wait. You're being a little over dramatic 
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2005-07-06
Fedora Core, for example, now has support for Intel-based Macintoshes, so it would be interesting to see how 64-bit FC ran on the Mac Pro box, but nope, no attempt at all was made to try it.
Considering that people who buy Mac Pros are probably quite averse to running Windows (otherwise why not buy a cheaper-but-same-speced Intel box that comes with Windows?), it seems bizarre that reviewers just ignore Linux as a possible option on Mac boxes. I bet a 64-bit Linux distro would probably outperform both Mac OS X and Windows XP on the Mac Pro, but I guess we'll never know...<sigh>...
Edited 2006-08-11 19:49