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Apple Announces Penryn Mac Pros and Xservers

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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by andrewg on Tue 8th Jan 2008 21:31 UTC in reply to "RE: ..."

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Have you seen this link? http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=942

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by evangs on Wed 9th Jan 2008 07:04 in reply to "RE[2]: ..."

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It doesn't run OS X, ergo it doesn't run FCP and other Apple Pro applications. You may diss that requirement, but some people do want (need) to run OS X.

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by andrewg on Wed 9th Jan 2008 11:43 in reply to "RE[3]: ..."

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I agree completely. If you want to run MacOS you have to go with a Mac which means you won't be able to select hardwire options that best fit your price/performance requirements and you may have to pay a premium for a part which is available for far less.

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by MysterMask on Fri 11th Jan 2008 01:10 in reply to "RE[2]: ..."

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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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