Linked by Adam S on Tue 8th Jan 2008 19:20 UTC
Apple today announced upgrades to the Mac Pro and the Xserve, which now feature Intel Penryn processors. Quad-core processors that go up to 3.2 Ghz, powerful video cards, and superfast front-side bus and memory make these especially delicious, however, there are still no Blu-ray drives available. Macrumors has more. 
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Member since:2005-07-06
Have you seen this link? http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=942
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Member since:2005-07-12
Have you seen this link? http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=942
Highly relevant. You do realize that you can build a cheaper, more powerful CPU from scratch than Intels current top of the line (if you forget to count the approximate 56687 years you need to build it). George Ou is always soooo insightful!
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2006-01-06
You shouldn't need more than 640k.
Seriously though, working with multi core machines like this a "good" rule of thumb for serious processing is about 1GB ram per core.
- 8GB of ram today doesn't cost that much
- people buying this system likely don't want to skimp anyways
Although I have to admit the only people I know who bought 8 core apple systems bought them pretty much just to be cool.
What makes me sad is that to build a full 8 core system yourself (tyan board, case, PS, hard drives, 12GB ram) cost ~$1400 back in september. That was with slower clovertowns at the time.
Edited 2008-01-08 20:43 UTC