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Schpickles
14-10-2005, 08:02 AM
4 Core monster in the works, apparently. As in 2x 2-core PowerPC970MP processor.

http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=1320

http://www.macrumors.com/c.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thinksecret.com%2Fnews%2F 0510power.html
Grebe
14-10-2005, 01:20 PM
Take your apple shades off dude

http://www.livingnutrition.com/images/fruit-in-sun.jpg

Thats a pineapple i know, just picture it as an regular apple ok?

But yeah, sounds swell
Jordan
14-10-2005, 01:28 PM
Schpick, who's making the CPU? IBM? Intel... or someone else?
RoadKill
14-10-2005, 02:07 PM
Uh, it's a PowerPC chip, it's going to be by IBM.
Schpickles
20-10-2005, 08:15 AM
This was unveiled last night

http://www.apple.com/uk/powermac/

4x2.5Ghz G5 Cores with a 1.25Ghz FSB. Nice.

Do the sums: quad-core processing means four Velocity Engines and eight double-precision floating-point units for blistering performance of up to 76.6 gigaflops.

The powerbook range also got upgraded a little.
Ryan
20-10-2005, 11:31 AM
Wow! And I can't even dream of affording one!
Lammie
20-10-2005, 12:09 PM
*shakes uncontrollably*

Oooooooooooh!
RoadKill
20-10-2005, 01:40 PM
You can already build/buy, 4 way, dual core AMD Opteron systems, effectively 8 cores at 2.8Ghz each.

For example here is a Sun Fire V40z: http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/v40z/specs.jsp

Sure it's a server but holy shit, a workstation based on such a design would make you cream your pants.
Charlie
20-10-2005, 03:26 PM
Sure it's a server but holy shit, a workstation based on such a design would make you cream your pants.

But the dual dual core PowerMac doesn't?
JonSt
20-10-2005, 04:58 PM
Shame apple dont accept paypal :P
Dieter
20-10-2005, 05:37 PM
http://www.apple.com/uk/powermac/



Read the little letters at the bottom. I could feel the bills stacking to the moon :)
Charlie
20-10-2005, 06:07 PM
Read the little letters at the bottom. I could feel the bills stacking to the moon :)

Woah, 8 23" monitors, not bad :D
Raining_again
20-10-2005, 06:20 PM
that sounds super sexy......and im sure its super expensive too :heh: me wants!!!!
Colin
20-10-2005, 07:40 PM
You can already build/buy, 4 way, dual core AMD Opteron systems, effectively 8 cores at 2.8Ghz each.


But if you buy a Dual Opteron rig with similar specs to the Quad PowerMac's you'll be paying a hell of alot more.................and would you want to pay that bit of extra money just to run that buggy OS we all use aswell.

I can see these new PowerMac's improving render times a hell of alot............but I think another big factor with these new PowerMac's is that Apple have decided to ship Quadro FX's with them finally.

Still, the majority of artists aren't going to move over from Windows based machines just because Apple have decided to ship a decent workstation graphics card with their new Mac's.

(although they'll still all drool over the processor speeds)
Schpickles
20-10-2005, 08:19 PM
The other thing is you need the software and in particular the OS to really take advantage of those cores. OS X actually does take advantage of such a system.

I'm sure it's no coincidence that these were announced the same day as the new professional photography package Apple unveiled. A media editors dream, no doubt :)