I already abandoned ship. Sold my 2008 while I could get something for it and built a nice westmere system. Just installed a ATI 6950 too. My mini keeps me connected to the apple would. Won't pay much more to do it.
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I already abandoned ship. Sold my 2008 while I could get something for it and built a nice westmere system. Just installed a ATI 6950 too. My mini keeps me connected to the apple would. Won't pay much more to do it.
Just as an aside, I don't think I even saw a Mac Pro displayed at the Apple Store in Meadowhall, Sheffield!
Really? Weird. Apple even advertises them as available in retail stores on their page. They're certainly still in the stores here, usually on one of the far side walls.
Yeah they keep them on the back. but no on display. I bought my 2009 Octad in Altamonte. It wasn't on display but I asked and they said... sure, how many u want?? lol...
Maybe they only have them at certain larger flagship stores?
In Seattle area:
Seattle has them on display. Last time I checked.
Lynnwood, WA had them.
The rest of the smaller mall mini-stores (Bellevue, Southcenter) don't.
Maybe it is based on per capita geek populations
In Seattle area:
Seattle has them on display. Last time I checked.
Lynnwood, WA had them.
The rest of the smaller mall mini-stores (Bellevue, Southcenter) don't.
Maybe it is based on per capita geek populations
They have the Mac Pro out at my local Temecula, CA Apple Store. They are in a mall location. (They are outside of the mall, but it isn't a big store)
I have no idea what the methodology is then. Any shoebox mall stores have them then?
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Ugh so tired of this. Some of us don't want a giant glossy imac with a screen we cannot carry over to a new system.
Ugh so tired of this. Some of us don't want a giant glossy imac with a screen we cannot carry over to a new system.
These threads are getting really absurd. It doesn't matter how many RAID enclosures I can hook up to my MacBook Pro with Thunderbolt, that doesn't make it a workstation. By *any* stretch of the imagination.
The core professional market is also *way* more fundamental to Apple's business, and has been for years, than their dabbling in rack-mountable servers.
The core professional market is also *way* more fundamental to Apple's business, and has been for years, than their dabbling in rack-mountable servers.
Pf... I networked my Powerbook G3 to my eight core Xeon. Pretty sure this makes my Powerbook G3 a workstation.
And I SSH into a research university cluster from my iPad.
Pretty sure that doesn't make it a workstation.