New Intel G5

alex matson · Post by **alex matson** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 10:25 am

...is being debuted at the Apple conference, and covered live at
http://www.macrumorslive.com/web/
The Apple store is down, but will be updated 'within the hour'.
And now, I will live on peanut butter for a couple of months while I save my coins...

kayagum · Post by **kayagum** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 10:49 am

This should be in the Computer World topic, but thanks for the update.

alex matson · Post by **alex matson** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 10:56 am

D'oh! You're right!
So far, though...
MAC PRO: dual 2.66 Xeon, 1 GB RAM, Geforce 7300 GT (256 MB VRAM), SuperDrive, $2499.....1.6 to 2.1x faster than the G5 quad....up to 2 TB of internal storage....two optical drives...increased front I/O as well as back I/O...back - 4 PCI express slots....room for four hard drive that snap into place w/out tools....back rubber, shoe polisher...dog walker...

Jeff White · Post by **Jeff White** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 11:15 am

alex matson wrote:D'oh! You're right!
So far, though...
MAC PRO: dual 2.66 Xeon, 1 GB RAM, Geforce 7300 GT (256 MB VRAM), SuperDrive, $2499.....1.6 to 2.1x faster than the G5 quad....up to 2 TB of internal storage....two optical drives...increased front I/O as well as back I/O...back - 4 PCI express slots....room for four hard drive that snap into place w/out tools....back rubber, shoe polisher...dog walker...

Sweet!!! Sweet!!! Sweet!!!

helmuth · Post by **helmuth** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 12:15 pm

and it's not a G5

alex matson · Post by **alex matson** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 1:03 pm

D'oh!...'ProMac' then.
Repeat to self: Buying cutting edge computer technology bad.
Dylan wrote with a guitar and a pencil and paper.
Okay, it worked! Back to 'Opus in three power chords'....

sonikbliss · Post by **sonikbliss** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 7:03 pm

alex matson wrote:D'oh! You're right!
So far, though...
MAC PRO: dual 2.66 Xeon, 1 GB RAM, Geforce 7300 GT (256 MB VRAM), SuperDrive, $2499.....1.6 to 2.1x faster than the G5 quad....up to 2 TB of internal storage....two optical drives...increased front I/O as well as back I/O...back - 4 PCI express slots....room for four hard drive that snap into place w/out tools....back rubber, shoe polisher...dog walker...

ha, I customized one of the new Mac Pros in the Apple store and loaded it up with all the top options and it was over $10000!

The Mac Pros do look sick though, as does Leopard.

Cyan421 · Post by **Cyan421** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 1:45 pm

anyone seen any update from pro app's besided Logic???

What's the point of having a stupid fast computer if it will only run its own apps?

2 TB of storage! 16 GB RAM crazy!

sonikbliss · Post by **sonikbliss** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 2:37 pm

Cyan421 wrote:anyone seen any update from pro app's besided Logic???

What's the point of having a stupid fast computer if it will only run its own apps?

I'm not sure what you're talking about exactly, the new mac pros are shipping with Tiger installed which has all kinds of apps that run on it. If you're talking about apps running on the new Leopard OS, well that hasn't even been released yet.

Cyan421 · Post by **Cyan421** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 2:17 pm

Pro tools hasn't released software to run an HD system with the intel macs. DP just barely came out with universal binaries (but costs $200 to upgrade). MOTU's PCI gear dosen't work with the MAC pro, yet. Apogee seems to be ahead of these other hardware giants.

Other than that. It dosen't seem to be to expensive, unless you want 16 GB of ram i.e. stupid.

There is an interesting debate of at the Digi board about how native processing is getting way better and people seem be going with less powerful Pro tools systems (1 or 2 accel card insted of 3 or 4) and spending more money on a faster computer. So this likely is good news for the kids who want to stick with their firewire gear and get more processing power out of a computer rather than expensive hardware.

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