Apple said to be preparing 12-core Mac Pros and 27-inch LED Cinema Displays

Engadget ^ | 3/19/2010 | Vladislav Savov

[dangerdoc]

AppleInsider has rounded up its stable of "people familiar with the matter" and squeezed them for info on Cupertino's plans for the near term.

Firstly, they've heard that a 27-inch version of the currently available 24-inch LED Cinema Display is on its way, sporting a 2,560 x 1,440 resolution and targeted for release "by June."

The more exciting tip from those in the know, however, relates to the well aged Mac Pro and its future upgrade path. Apple has apparently firmed up plans to offer 6- and 12-core options (to replace the current 4- and 8-core variants), though the star of the show internally is said to be Intel's Xeon 5600, rather than the similarly specced Core i7-980X that had been rumored.

This seems to be motivated by the fact the i7 beast can't do dual-CPU configurations, which are necessary to offer a dozen cores. Pricing for the single Xeon CPU model is expected to be close to the current $2,499 starting sticker, but release dates still elude us

[Bookwoman]

You are right on here. My son gave me a Mac Mini a couple of years ago, and being a Windows User through and through, I was very slow to start using it. However... now that I have been using it, I can’t wait to upgrade to one of these new models and get a new MacBook. I am dumping my Windows machine.

I never realized how much overhead and additional time and cost it was to be running Windows compared to Mac. I do a lot of sophisticated computing, and Mac handles it all very well. I have only two programs to run under Windows and can handle that with Parallels.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

Thanks for posting what many of us would like to post. However, we, and you, could just cut and paste the same thing on every thread and it would be true except for the specific posts.

Unfortunately, calling children what they are, children, is rarely effective.

[tubebender]

Dittos from a 15 year Mac user...

[zeugma]

Thanks. I've just gotten tired of their behavior. I'm not even a Mac user, just a longtime freeper who is fed up with people acting like teen-agers. Some of the comments may have been mildly humerous 10 years ago, but the constant repetition on almost every single thread is tiresome.

They always say that other folks do it on MS-Windows related threads, but they can't seem to find any examples to post. I believe I asked for same at least 3 times yesterday and was greeted with nothing but continued name-calling.

If you've been around here long enough, you'll know that on topics concerning the latest MS-Windows virus of the week, disparaging comments tend to me made about MS-Windows and its weak security and virus-prone design. Of that there is no doubt, but almost never are the comments targeted at the users of Microsoft software. However, on just about any Mac or Linux thread, the users are called everything from "insane", to gay, to various forms of fan-boys.

[WVKayaker]

'87 560SEL 6.9 in my garage! Pleasure with high test compression, and reclining back seats! Solid thunk when doors close!!!

MacBook and IMac on my desk...

( not mine, I'm dark blue!)

[SunkenCiv]

Six and twelve core suggests a hotter OS on the way?

[Swordmaker]

Thanks. I've just gotten tired of their behavior. I'm not even a Mac user, just a longtime freeper who is fed up with people acting like teen-agers. Some of the comments may have been mildly humerous 10 years ago, but the constant repetition on almost every single thread is tiresome.

It's why I took a six week break from posting Mac Ping list articles... I got sick and tired of being insulted by the same people over and over again.. always posting things i knew to be lies. I had to go back into the real world for a while.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

You have figured it out. I am a Mac user in my personal life but in business I have often sold software and systems which were DOS, VOS or windows based. I dealt with what I had and never cared about others choices.

Yet, I was dealing with mathematicians, EEs, software programmers and system engineers in my business life and they seemed to look down on those of us who weren’t. I knew enough about what I was selling to be able to explain it and sell it but I never even wanted to be a programmer.

That is what I see on these threads. Those who build their own computers and can write a little software look down their noses at Mac users because we never had to be proficient in DOS or the others just to use our computers. Early on they probably thought the mouse was unnecessary and a sissy tool.

That is the difference, ego, not the machine.

[zeugma]

It's why I took a six week break from posting Mac Ping list articles... I got sick and tired of being insulted by the same people over and over again.. always posting things i knew to be lies. I had to go back into the real world for a while.

Well, you've always done a good job combating their foolishness. I can understand why you would want to take a break from it though. I've just finally reached the limit of my tolerance for such childish crap.  I tried to look for the post where you did an analysis of a bunch of tech threads and broke down exactly where the rudeness originated, but it was too far back, and I got distracted by something shiny before I found it.

Good to have you back btw, since my MIL bought herself a Mac mini recently, I may have questions for you. :-)

First one that comes to mind, is do you know how to connect to a Mac with RDP? If I can get an RDP client and server working on her mini, that would mean that from any computer in the house, you can have direct access to a login on all the other ones. The wife was really liking being able to login to my desktop from her laptop.