You may wonder why I bothered to post this, well I thought an 8 core DESKTOP that runs Unix and Windoz would interest some ppl, that's all:
New Mac Pro is eight-cored beast
Claims it is twice as fast
By Nick Farrell: Wednesday, 09 January 2008, 2:36 PM
TOYMAKER Steve Jobs has been getting his Christmas elves to build him a new Mac Pro which has more processor cores than you can poke a stick at.
The new Mac Pro comes with not two, or four processors, but a pair of Intel's 45 nanometre Quad-Core Xeons all plumbed neatly together and supported by four terabytes of disk space.
It seems that Jobs has been taking the INQ comments to heart about Apple turning into an entertainment gadget maker to heart. But bigger fish than us have been saying that Apple has been disappearing from producing anything cutting edge for a while.
According to the press release, each processor is backed up by 12 MB of Level 2 cache, and the new high-bandwidth architecture runs dual-independent 1600MHz frontside busses with up to 32GB of 800MHz DDR2 RAM.
Apple claims that this spec equates to a 61 per cent increase in memory throughput.
Graphics on the beast come from ATI's Radeon HD 2600 XT with 256MB of VRAM. But there is support for up to four graphics cards so the Pro can run eight displays at once.
Needless to say it is very pretty. It will set you back $2700 in the US, but you will have to find your own monitor.
Not only that, but with Apple's attention to detail and belief in SILENT computing this err... hybrid will be VERY VERY can you spell WHISPER quiet which is NOT something MOST PC users can claim. And for ANYONE who's 'heard' or NOT heard as the case may be how SILENT these things are, PCs doh even come CLOSE, but its all in the air flow engineering
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