EricM Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 This thing must scream. Dual-core, 3.0GHz Xeon 64-bit, quad core, 16GB of RAM,2TB's of hd space...even looks fast too. <br><br><center><img src="http://images.apple.com/ca/macpro/images/designtop20060807.jpg "></center><br><br> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmanthree Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 Price one out on Apple's web site, and then scream because you have to choose between this and the Canon 5D with a lens. Nice, but very expensive... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitchfalk Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 They just came out with a Quad 3.0 yesterday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
._._z Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 Mitch, that's what this post was about.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uhooru Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 I'm NOT worthy...I wonder how fast this runs CS2 in emulation, or would you just dual boot into Windoze? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad_ Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 And a super-robust OS thrown in for free. Heh. Eric's getting the shakes big-time now. He knows what he has to do... At Apple's WWDC where OS 10.5 was announced yesterday, Apple had a huge banner saying, "Mac OS X Leopard - Introducing Vista 2.0" www.citysnaps.net Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrew_kaiser2 Posted August 9, 2006 Share Posted August 9, 2006 I like Mac and all, but what is up with their latest advertisements bashing Windows? Am I the only one that finds it super petty? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricM Posted August 9, 2006 Author Share Posted August 9, 2006 i know i'm going to end up running both platforms...again...16 gig! you could run a small country on that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott_eaton Posted August 9, 2006 Share Posted August 9, 2006 Does that new Mac come with a version of Photoshop that can use 16gig of RAM? Oops...I forgot. To Mac users, the OS is *WAY* more important than the applications you use on it, which is why I guess you keep buying new versions of OSX. While Xeon/Woodcrest is long over-due, the fact remains a few months after it's introduced you'll be able to mount this processor on a better motherboard and essentially build the same box for 1/2 the price. One of the unfortunate side effect of moving to Intel is Apple can no longer justify proprietary designs. Still, according to Steve J's own math, a 1.8ghz G5 is faster than this box. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricM Posted August 9, 2006 Author Share Posted August 9, 2006 scott, do you know many gigs of ram 64 bit cs3 can use? exactly... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sean de merchant httpw Posted August 9, 2006 Share Posted August 9, 2006 Scott, With large amounts of RAM PS will use the OS'es disk caching mechanism if properly configured. Hence the scratch disk will write to those "unusable" GBs of RAM. In short, Adobe claims it will use it. It just may be at half RAM speed (like the 640 KB window of old into high memory) rather than at 1/100th or less of RAM speed like it does writing to disk. In short, yes, PS can use that extra RAM. Perhaps not at optimal speeds, but still a damn sight faster than writing to disk directly. XP-64 also supports this. enjoy, Sean Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitchfalk Posted August 9, 2006 Share Posted August 9, 2006 Spoke to a friend of mine who works at the Apple store on 23rd St., he said it scream'n fast w/pscs2. They hooked up an V700 scanner to it and it did M/F slide at top resolution in half the time of the old machine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
._._z Posted August 9, 2006 Share Posted August 9, 2006 <i><blockquote> Spoke to a friend of mine who works at the Apple store on 23rd St. </blockquote> </i><p> This is a worldwide website, Mitch. <p> If you're talking about NYC, the only Mac-related store on '23rd St' is Tekserve, which is not an Apple Store. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrew_rodney1 Posted August 9, 2006 Share Posted August 9, 2006 Absolutely beautiful design (despite Scott's attempt to build a garage unit at "?" the cost). Scott, there are all kinds of responses waiting for you in the last Mac titled post you did your typical "duck and cover" assault on Apple: http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00HXKN It must be really painful to see this companies market shares increase along with all the "Switchers" and fantastic new products. Look, I'll make a you a great deal on a used G5 since I want one of these new Mac Pro's bad. I'll even stick a poster of a pin up girl on it from someone's oily garage... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karim Ghantous Posted August 9, 2006 Share Posted August 9, 2006 Yeah, a beautiful design, but way out of my budget. Heck even if I could afford it what would I do with it? ;-) This is what the G5 could not have ever been - look at it: four hard drive bays, two optical drive bays, fewer cooling problems, more RAM. (BTW Eric although I share your enthusiasm there doesn't seem to be much point in this post.) Anyway, high performance computing is a given but there are other issues that are IMO more pressing to digital photography that aren't being solved. In any case those aren't Apple's problem. And can we keep from getting bitchy with each other? I don't care who "started it"; this forum is supposed to be either helpful or fun and if it isn't either it becomes no fun very quickly and we lose readers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad_ Posted August 9, 2006 Share Posted August 9, 2006 <a href= "http://developer.apple.com/documentation/HardwareDrivers/Conceptual/ Mac_Pro_0608/Articles/M43_0906_arch.html">Some technical details.</a> www.citysnaps.net Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricM Posted August 9, 2006 Author Share Posted August 9, 2006 Karim, "(BTW Eric although I share your enthusiasm there doesn't seem to be much point in this post.)" you don't think the latestest mac has relevence in the digital darkroom? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karim Ghantous Posted August 10, 2006 Share Posted August 10, 2006 Well Eric it's just that a mere product announcement isn't that big a deal for this particular forum. I mean, a post on the release of Aperture or Lightroom certainly would be helpful because it's very specific. This is not that specific towards photography IMO that's all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricM Posted August 10, 2006 Author Share Posted August 10, 2006 hardware and software, just tools we use; applicable and of intrest, obvisoulsy. it's a thread on the endless internet, if it bugs you, don't look? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digitaldog Posted August 15, 2006 Share Posted August 15, 2006 Scott, of course EVERYONE knows that Mac's cost more than comparable PC's and are over priced.... NOT. Read this one dude: http://www.macworld.com/2006/08/features/macproprice/index.php Save yourself $1000 and run both operating systems. Author “Color Management for Photographers" & "Photoshop CC Color Management" (pluralsight.com) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricM Posted August 15, 2006 Author Share Posted August 15, 2006 i hire a tech to build my own boxes from parts warehouses and have always been able to build a pc that outperforms both the top of the line Dell and Mac for 30% less. I doubt this will change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelly_flanigan1 Posted August 15, 2006 Share Posted August 15, 2006 So will this new box help with Apple's delisting letter from Nasdaq? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrew_rodney1 Posted August 29, 2006 Share Posted August 29, 2006 Good news, bad news for ol' Scott: The bad news: Mac Pro: The ultimate in desktop computing: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14553650/ The good news: Apple scolded by Greenpeace for environmental policies: http://news.yahoo.com/s/macworld/20060829/tc_macworld/greenpeace20060829_0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark_richards Posted August 29, 2006 Share Posted August 29, 2006 But it's still just a metal box with the usual bits & pieces inc. a couple of 3 GHz Core 2 Duo chips with whatever allows them to work in tandem (that is all the Xeon label indicates) running Apple's OS - it isn't the Second Coming of Big J. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricM Posted August 29, 2006 Author Share Posted August 29, 2006 "...they said the Mac Pro runs 1.4 to 1.8 times faster than their previous G5 speedster." they shouldn't say things like that. many have year old pc's that are running at least 2x faster than the g5 for a fraction of the cost of the new pro fully kitted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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