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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

Spring for a new Mac Pro...now a good time?

my MBP had to get a new motherboard after 1 year and 2 months....bastards.

I just got a refurb. 2.8 so i dont blow the MBP out again.
 
yeah i dont think any MACPRO towers are gonna be announced til at least macworld so now may be a good time to pick one up.
there are rumors of new macbooks/pros maybe getting a bump on oct 14th but you never know.
 
Hmmm... I haven't seen anyone saying that Nehalem has been delayed. But who knows, could be. Intel has been pretty quiet lately.

New Mac Pros won't come until the new CPUs are shipping. And they will get here when they get here. I also won't be surprised if Apple pulls off an exclusive deal as they did with the 3GHz Xeon and the ultra-thin CPU packaging for the Macbook Air.

The current Mac Pro is still a good system to buy. If you need one, you need one and they are a very nice dual quad-core workstation. The only shortcomings are in the graphics card area, but they have a lot of attributes that make up in other places.

I'm personally more anxious for updated Macbook Pro systems. I'm really looking forward to quad core with 8GB in a new 17". Hopefully Apple is paying attention and we'll get Blu-Ray and eSATA on new models.
 
BOXXLabs said:
our sources tell us that the dual socket intel "Nehalem" systems won't be ready to sell until mid-to-late Q1 '09.

It's pretty much a sure bet that you won't see a Nahalem-based Mac Pro offering until then.
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Adam -

Could you just yank the CPU's out of the current MacPro and put Nahalems in when they become available?
 
Offhollywood said:
Adam -

Could you just yank the CPU's out of the current MacPro and put Nahalems in when they become available?
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AFAIK nehelam is a new socket 1366 so new motherboards are needed as well
 
Curran Giddens said:
Why don't you just buy a Blu-ray drive if it is that important?

internal
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Panasonic/SW5583BKMP/

external
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other World Computing/MRF8UE5583/

Blu-ray media
http://www.meritline.com/ritek-2x-blu-ray-white-inkjet-printable-bdr-252-iwcb25.html
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I remember back when I upgraded one of my older macs with a DL burner when Apple was still not up to par. I went through hell with all kind of errors and trying to figure out if it's hardware or software issues. So I prefer apple releasing the hardware not saying it will be perfect but at least there will be support.
 
Abu Reno said:
No Blu-Ray No upgrade
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For the Macbook Pro, I agree. For the Mac Pro, I'll just put the BD drive in myself. Oh, wait, I've already got Blu-Ray in my current Mac Pro.
 
Abu Reno said:
I remember back when I upgraded one of my older macs with a DL burner when Apple was still not up to par. I went through hell with all kind of errors and trying to figure out if it's hardware or software issues. So I prefer apple releasing the hardware not saying it will be perfect but at least there will be support.
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OK, but you really should be using Toast Titanium to burn discs. Not directly from the Finder or Disk Utility.
 
Curran Giddens said:
OK, but you really should be using Toast Titanium to burn discs. Not directly from the Finder or Disk Utility.
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LOL I am! I'm not sure if you ever got into burning DL discs but it was a war zone including media being corrupted that I later found out was another issue. All I'm saying I'd rather not go 3rd party and wait for apple to recommend they're brand.

BTW How's it working for you Jeff? Are you burning data or movies and have you used DL Blu-Ray's?
 
Offhollywood said:
Adam -

Could you just yank the CPU's out of the current MacPro and put Nahalems in when they become available?
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Hey Mark -

How's the show?

So, Nahalem is a completely new microarchitecture -with a new socket & package design and totally new chipset implementation.

There's no chance that existing systems will be compatible.

We are testing the single-socket Nehalem "i7" engineering platform here in my lab and getting some darn good performance. For certain apps, a single Nehalem quad-core CPU with hyper threading turned on is about as fast as a pair of current entry-level quad-core Xeons.

And that is on an early "0-stepping" samples. The final product will have optimizations which should make it even faster.
 
Abu Reno said:
LOL I am! I'm not sure if you ever got into burning DL discs but it was a war zone including media being corrupted that I later found out was another issue. All I'm saying I'd rather not go 3rd party and wait for apple to recommend they're brand.
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I burn DL DVD-R discs all the time. I've also burned Blu-ray discs including a 50GB DL disc, 25GB RW disc, and the also the regular Ritek discs I posted a link to previously.

Apple usually goes with Pioneer (they did with the Superdrive), but in my experience the Panasonic works just fine.
 
Thanks folks, this feedback is much appreciated. I was this close to buying now but managed borrow one instead :D so I think I will hold out for "Nahalem"...09 is around the corner.
 
Anyone crunching on the lower end Nahelem and happy? Making purchase tomorrow and curious how these rigs are holding up compared to one another. Cheers.
 
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