8-Core Mac Pro? Now?

[StealthRider]

On CNet's front page, there is a link to a Sony VAIO PC that recently debuted at CES - boasting, among other things, a Blu-ray burner. The good folk at CNet decided to compare it to the Mac Pro, and ended up making an interesting slip: "The VAIO RM has a single Core 2 Duo processor to the Mac Pro's pair of dual core Xeon chips, Sony has only two processing cores to the Mac Pro's eight."

Of course it's probably just a typo...but it makes you wonder doesn't it?

Linky

 

[dllavaneras]

Do you think they know something we don't? TIME once leaked word of an upcoming iPod...

 

[StealthRider]

We'll know on Tuesday, won't we?

 

[Quboid]

Do you think they know something we don't? TIME once leaked word of an upcoming iPod...

I would liek to think we know more than time, especailly about iPods.

 

[StealthRider]

Ha well...Time rules the world, apparently - they have the power to determine the most important person of the year and everything!

 

[Quboid]

Ha well...Time rules the world, apparently - they have the power to determine the most important person of the year and everything!

If i remember correctly, i was that person. For last year that is.

 

[StealthRider]

Oh...if I had a dollar for every time I'd heard that crack...

Anyway, back on topic...

 

[Counterfit]

ZOMG OCTOCORE!



Seriously, Ars put a pair of quad-core Xeons into a Mac Pro months ago, and it worked fine. This will be a natural progression (and probably an option).

 

[StealthRider]

Yeah but expensive - it'll be Quad-Quad-Octo just like the DC PowerMacs; if it even happens before WWDC ( ) that is.