[Swordmaker]

What's expandable to 32 Gigabytes?

The new eight core Mac Pro for $2799... PING!

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[Swordmaker]

Hmmmmm.... Case stays the same but the goodies inside get a big boost. Quad core fades into history. 8 cores now standard.

I wonder at the timing of the announcement, one week before Steve Jobs Keynote Address at the San Francisco Macworld Conference. What is he going to announce? A new ultra-thin Macbook

[metmom]

ping

[doc1019]

Sweet!

I guess Rush has his on order. Of course, with all the free publicity he gives Apple on his program, he will get his for free. ;-)

Oh, to have $3,000 I could part with!

[rmlew]

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT or NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 graphics cards;
Finally, the Macs have decent vidio cards. It was kinda of sad that unless one was willing to cough up 1200 for a NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500, their Mac Pro would be bested in graphics applications by a Macbook Pro.

[Blue Highway]

Interesting. Can you loan me one so I can run it through it’s paces? lol.

[Filo]

Well, I’m not a Mac fan but I’ll have one of these in the house by the end of the month, I suspect.

[Eddie01]

An Apple II in 1977 with 48k RAM was $2,638.00.

http://oldcomputers.net/appleii.html

I would have to say product value has improved a bit.

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

>>lust<<

[antiRepublicrat]

Wow! It’s hard to compare to the Dell 690 since they don’t have the same graphics options, but this at 3 GHz is over $1,600 cheaper with the top 512 MB GeForce card than the Dell with a 256 MB Quadro. The Quadro is worth about $700 more, making the difference still $900.

And you get the 5400 series Xeon, 1600 MHz bus and 50% more cache with the Mac.

The Mac Pro is again the best value OEM workstation.