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I still don't see what's preventing them from shipping Core i7 Ivy Bridge Mac Pros now. I wonder if the near future of the Mac Pro might be headless, providing
by WiseWeasel 14y ago
I still don't see what's preventing them from shipping Core i7 Ivy Bridge Mac Pros now.
I wonder if the near future of the Mac Pro might be headless, providing storage, CPU and maybe GPU horsepower and advanced legacy I/O for an iOS device, which serves as the principal UI.
- wmf 14y agoMac Pros use Xeons, not i7s. But yeah, the big question is why they aren't using the Xeon E5 that's available now.
- WiseWeasel 14y agoI'd probably take an i7 Ivy Bridge over the Xeon Sandy Bridge, especially if it meant a lower price point. I don't really make good use of all those cores in any case, though the L3 cache penalty would probably be felt.
- wmf 14y agoNow you're into the xMac discussion. Everybody says they want an xMac, but Apple doesn't want to sell one.
- WiseWeasel 14y agoHmm, maybe you're right. The xMac is traditionally assumed to be a gaming device, with prosumer CPU and beefy GPU. This is likely a battle Apple can't win, as I can build a nice gaming rig for a relatively low price, and I'm going to want to run Windows on there in any case. Maybe what I really want from Apple is an iServer, which is a Mac Mini with lots of HD bays and legacy I/O. Or maybe I'm in too small of a market, and I should just consider a Mac Mini and a Thunderbolt breakout expansion box. It seems to me like using iOS apps to access your iServer's resources is the direction we're headed.