New Mac pros!!

[lozion]

NEW pro macs all QUADS!!!
up to 3ghz...!


Dual 2 2.66 dual core Xeons, 1 GB, 667 MHz FB-DIMM. 250GB HD. Nvidia geforce 7300GT, 256 MB and 16xc superdrive for $2499!!

[Shaman]

Mac pro facts LIVE from WWDC


"...design of case stays the same , graphics slot at bottom - double wide for larger graphics cards - 4 PCI express slots increased front I/O as well as back I/O second optical drive , up to 2 TB of internal storage
,room for 4 hard drives,25GB/sec bandwidth,4channel 256 bit wide memory access
twice the bus of the G5, 1.6 to 2.1x faster than the G5 quad..."

Mac Lust

[andrew269]

[~ufo~]

MAC PRO:
dual 2.66 Xeon,
1 GB RAM,
Geforce 7300 GT (256 MB VRAM),
SuperDrive,
$2499


that's the base model, everything else is built to order.
so effectively, they are moving away from the Good, better, best thing.
this also means more regular processor updates prolly, since Intel pushes out revisions much faster than moto and IBM did.

[AdamJay]

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060807-7435.html
...says there will be 3 speeds, all dual dual-core (quad)
(2.0, 2.66 and 3.0GHz across the spectrum)

so i'm hoping the quad 2.0 will be $1999, if the quad 2.66ghz is $2499

native processing biatches!!!!

[T_R_S]

2.6 Ghz dual
256 MB ram
Superdrive
$2499

processors fit in compact space - leaves lots of room in case for full size ram, drives, everything
drive carriers - insert drives without tools - just snap into place
inside, entirely new
design of case stays the same
graphics slot at bottom - double wide for larger graphics cards
back - 4 PCI express slots
increased front I/O as well as back I/O
second optical drive
up to 2 TB of internal storage
less cooling in box
room for 4 hard drives
each on it's own - 25GB/sec bandwidth
4channel
256 bit wide memory access
twice the bus of the G5
1.6 to 2.1x faster than the G5 quad
large 4 MB shared L2 cache
old case - two optical drives

[AdamJay]

Originally Posted by T_R_S

less cooling in box

sweet, quieter!

[andrew269]

well at least i'm not the only one watching macrumors live updates

[andrew269]

Originally Posted by AdamJay

native processing biatches!!!!

indeed! HD hardware is looking even LESS attractive now. dfegad

[Fredrik]

Originally Posted by andrew269

well at least i'm not the only one watching macrumors live updates

Sweet, sort of like the worldcup for geeks I´m waiting for a quicktime stream though

[lozion]

[TonyBelmont]

What happened to the "one more thing" he usually closes the conference presentation with?

[Shaman]

http://www.apple.com/macpro/

[AdamJay]

Originally Posted by TonyBelmont

What happened to the "one more thing" he usually closes the conference presentation with?

now that they're actually selling fast computers again, he doesn't need the "one more thing" to steal the show. There are finally good announcements in the actual body of the keynote.

[GilWave]

Originally Posted by TonyBelmont

What happened to the "one more thing" he usually closes the conference presentation with?

He normally reserves that for MacWorld, San Fran or Tokyo.

and only then when he's got something really cool new - no such animal at WWDC.

-gil

[upscaps]

$4300 plus w/ quad 3GHz, 3 internal SATA HDs, 2GB RAM

[kenn.michael]

Amazingly enough, Digi says PTHD will be working on these MacPros next month!!!!!

http://www.digidesign.com/index.cfm?...0&itemid=23350

Digi has really been on the ball with the IntelMac transition.

[~ufo~]

Originally Posted by kenn.michael

Amazingly enough, Digi says PTHD will be working on these MacPros next month!!!!!

http://www.digidesign.com/index.cfm?...0&itemid=23350

Digi has really been on the ball with the IntelMac transition.

nice1.... I wonder whether it will support utilising all four of those powerful cores though

[Lindell]

Originally Posted by andrew269

indeed! HD hardware is looking even LESS attractive now. dfegad

I have heard this be said for the past ten years....Digidesign dsp still rules. And will probably do so in the years to come.

[Lindell]

http://www.behringer.com/PRO

there goes that PRO word again

[Mind-Over-Midi]

Originally Posted by Lindell

I have heard this be said for the past ten years....Digidesign dsp still rules. And will probably do so in the years to come.

Agreed.

TDM + RTAS, Digi DSP + Quad Cores = processing bliss!

Those 4 internal drive bays look very nice!

[OHA]

Originally Posted by Lindell

I have heard this be said for the past ten years....Digidesign dsp still rules. And will probably do so in the years to come.

So true..

[Mind-Over-Midi]

Originally Posted by kenn.michael

Amazingly enough, Digi says PTHD will be working on these MacPros next month!!!!!

http://www.digidesign.com/index.cfm?...0&itemid=23350

Digi has really been on the ball with the IntelMac transition.

Yes they have. I wonder why no Logic announcement though? I was hoping to see something new concerning Logic! I get the felling Apple must be doing something really major with Logic, it's been too quiet for too long..............

[T_R_S]

Originally Posted by andrew269

indeed! HD hardware is looking even LESS attractive now. dfegad

High end users need will need HD for the near future ...
Large scale reliable low lentecy systems that need 160 channels of I/O are hard to find in the native world.
Digi is always movinng forward with devolopment on new hardware.
Expect new more powerfull DSP cards in the next 24 months.

[theblotted]

Originally Posted by Mind-Over-Midi

Yes they have. I wonder why no Logic announcement though? I was hoping to see something new concerning Logic! I get the felling Apple must be doing something really major with Logic, it's been too quiet for too long..............

you can see that Apple did the benchmarks of Mac Pro's audio with Logic 7.2.2, which to my knowledge haven't been released yet.

http://www.apple.com/macpro/performance.html
(scroll down)



so should be any day now.

[andrew269]

Originally Posted by T_R_S

High end users need will need HD for the near future ...
Large scale reliable low lentecy systems that need 160 channels of I/O are hard to find in the native world.
Digi is always movinng forward with devolopment on new hardware.
Expect new more powerfull DSP cards in the next 24 months.

perhaps i should've qualified by saying "for people like me."

[Reptil]

Originally Posted by OHA

So true..

whoah dude your signature! you have a single word for that? cool.
we have "paardelul", which also kindof has a nice ring to it. Sorry for this OT.

oh boy, is that fat 3 Ghz going to be a step up from my 1.4Dp Ghz G4
can you imagine, to run more than 4 convo verbs at 96Khz?
(sorry I'm still in the stoneage)

Logic 8 native 64bit? entirely possible. Maybe we'll need at least 4 gig ram ??

[GilWave]

Originally Posted by kenn.michael

Digi has really been on the ball with the IntelMac transition.

Not like they had much choice - these new MacPro's complete Apple's transition to Intel, that's all she wrote.

Pro Tools has been dual-platform for ages, so the transition would not have been problematic.

[OHA]

Originally Posted by Reptil

whoah dude your signature! you have a single word for that? cool.
we have "paardelul", which also kindof has a nice ring to it. Sorry for this OT.

[deft_bonz]

not sure if i have understood it right:

is this now the new intel mac?