Mac Pro Arrived! Pics Included

[ampd]

Zomg! Macrumors Drama! Its starting to sound like a reality TV show in here.... thats not good guys. Anyway, MacPro = Awesome... yeah its overkill for some, but its a good deal for what it is. And on the Clovertown buisness and the such... since when did everyone in here forget that technology advances faster than you can buy it... so your always behind, heck, even when apple releases it, your behind, thats nothing new, so why are we eating eachother over it? Anyway, just hope were all still grand apple buddies .

? me.

agreed...chill and be happy

 

[TBi]

i agree with TBi except for the graphics card statement. I want full size since i can get that in a shuttle

I know, i would too but apple is probably worried that it will cannibalise sales of it's higher end Mac Pro's if it can take a high end card. So they can restrict this by only allowing mid sized cards (7600 and X1600's) but not the big cards. If you want a big card you get the pro. The MXM module would do too. Plus with that they could make it quite small. Give you upgradability but make it hard enough to push the pro's to the Mac Pro.

It's a trade off, apple might give us that but they'll never give us a fully upgradable mid -system.

 

[camomac]

mmmm shiny

congrats Laslo Panaflex

i can't believe that i just read through 26 pages.

i want
i want
i want

dang it, it is always something...

 

[devmage]

arstechnica has a review up of the Mac Pro.

http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware/macpro.ars/1

The reviewer didn't seem as enthused as some of us are. I of course still am and can't wait for my delivery date

 

[hadleydb]

congrats Laslo Panaflex

i can't believe that i just read through 26 pages.

i want
i want
i want

dang it, it is always something...

I know what you mean... I've had more Macs than a lot of people I know and whenever Steve Jobs appears in that black turtle neck I have to sell my somewhat older system and shell money out on a newer one. I am a sick early adopter... My wife may divorce me over it...

 

[MovieCutter]

I know what you mean... I've had more Macs than a lot of people I know and whenever Steve Jobs appears in that black turtle neck I have to sell my somewhat older system and shell money out on a newer one. I am a sick early adopter... My wife may divorce me over it...

I know the feeling...some of the people on this board can back me up on that...

 

[tuartboy]

WOW. To upgrade that system from 2GB to 64GB is a $49,000 option!

Can the fluid dynamics software be run via a distributed computing system or is this a real time single system package? And is it even available for OS X?

It's quite a beast of a machine. It's custom-rolled software for research work and I seriously doubt it was written for anything other than this machine. I really know nothing more. We were just tasked to make the BSOD go away.

I thought this pic was funny. Nearly 60 grand on a machine and it still gets a BSOD.

Edit: for those who don't know, this is the Precision 690 apple is comparing with the Mac Pro.

 

[digitalbiker]

I'm not talking about a higher model, I'm talking about a midrange model between the cube and tower. Right now there is NO "prosumer" model. Mini is very consumer, Pro is very pro. They need something in the midrange.

milo,

I agree with you. Apple's line-up is missing an obvous piece.

CONSUMER / PRO
MacBook / MacBook Pro
iMac / MacPro
MacMini / ?

Apple needs a MacMini Pro.

In otherwords, make a slightly taller mini, add FW 800, X1900 GPU card and Highspeed PCI-Express card slot, Socketed Merom core 2 Duo, expanded MB with additional PCI-E and Optical Connections, SATA 500GB HD.

These would be a cheaper, smaller, introductory PRO machine. Thereby creating a hierachy that goes;

MacMini=>iMac=>MacMiniPro=>MacPro

 

[hadleydb]

milo,

I agree with you. Apple's line-up is missing an obvous piece.

CONSUMER / PRO
MacBook / MacBook Pro
iMac / MacPro
MacMini / ?

Apple needs a MacMini Pro.

In otherwords, make a slightly taller mini, add FW 800, X1900 GPU card and Highspeed PCI-Express card slot, Socketed Merom core 2 Duo, expanded MB with additional PCI-E and Optical Connections, SATA 500GB HD.

These would be a cheaper, smaller, introductory PRO machine. Thereby creating a hierachy that goes;

MacMini=>iMac=>MacMiniPro=>MacPro

They pretty much need a Mac Gamer. Core 2 duo and high end graphics. That would be my perfect Mac.

 

[Chone]

They pretty much need a Mac Gamer. Core 2 duo and high end graphics. That would be my perfect Mac.

Well I guess we'll have to settle for a 2.66ghz 2GB X1900XT rig in the meantime, not cheap for 3000$ but the best value as far as a gaming mac goes.

But yeah I agree, a single processor Core 2 Duo equipped upgradeable machine with several graphic card options and non buffered non ecc ram would be great as it would be a lot cheaper and a superb performer.

 

[elbirth]

It would be named Mac _____ . If it's a cube-rebirth, I would guess Mac Cube. I can see a Conroe Mac Cube in $1299/$1499 configurations. No way under $1000.

sounds like my (fairly new and growing) blog's title http://www.heycubed.net/blog/

 

[dmw007]

It's quite a beast of a machine. It's custom-rolled software for research work and I seriously doubt it was written for anything other than this machine. I really know nothing more. We were just tasked to make the BSOD go away.

I thought this pic was funny. Nearly 60 grand on a machine and it still gets a BSOD.

Edit: for those who don't know, this is the Precision 690 apple is comparing with the Mac Pro.

That is great- the BSOD on such an expensive, cutting-edge computer!

 

[SWC]

That is great- the BSOD on such an expensive, cutting-edge computer!

At least the BSOD tells you what caused the problem. When I get a kernal panic I just get a message in 10 languages that my system crashed with no indication to what caused it was it hardware? software? both? you never know.

 

[elbirth]

At least the BSOD tells you what caused the problem. When I get a kernal panic I just get a message in 10 languages that my system crashed with no indication to what caused it was it hardware? software? both? you never know.

The BSOD is almost always just as unhelpful as a kernel panic. Very rarely does it ever tell me anything that I can use to effectively troubleshoot the problem.

 

[elbirth]

It's quite a beast of a machine. It's custom-rolled software for research work and I seriously doubt it was written for anything other than this machine. I really know nothing more. We were just tasked to make the BSOD go away.

I thought this pic was funny. Nearly 60 grand on a machine and it still gets a BSOD.

Edit: for those who don't know, this is the Precision 690 apple is comparing with the Mac Pro.

it makes me cry that they spent all that money on that system and there it's hooked up to such a tiny, pitiful monitor

 

[Multimedia]

2GHz Dual Core PowerMac G5 $864.26 • Deal? Or No Deal? •*I decided Deal!

Found this at Fry's today. Bought it.

Bottom of the last G5 line from October 2005. 4/5 of half a G5 Quad. Floor model. 512 RAM, 160GB HD, New Keyboard with new extension cable, Mighty Mouse, new DVI to VGA Apple dongle. Docs No Discs. I have them. Will Ca;; Applecare and have them send me a set.

Such a deal.

Anyone have a price they think base G5 Quads are worth? I'm thinking $1700-$2000 would be a bargain.

 

[macdon401]

....this thread is really pathetic, you would think this was the only guy to have ever spent big on a system, and the first posts of....OOOOOOOO more pics please, very strange, go to the Apple site, better photography, but maybe you guys get off seeing boxes being opened in dingy apartments...LOL....it really is strange ...I just can't figure it out???
R

 

[elbirth]

....this thread is really pathetic, you would think this was the only guy to have ever spent big on a system, and the first posts of....OOOOOOOO more pics please, very strange, go to the Apple site, better photography, but maybe you guys get off seeing boxes being opened in dingy apartments...LOL....it really is strange ...I just can't figure it out???
R

it's one of those things where if you need it explained, you'll never get it... I almost feel sad for you that you'll never experience a giddy feeling of the announcement of a new Mac

 

[Gurutech]

Well.. just want to say this..
Not that many people upgrade their machine from the Quad G5 to Mac Pro.
Please. just congratulate new Mac Pro users.

I'm pretty sick of hearing about Clovertown or oct whatever craps in all the thread regarding any CPU or Mac pro.

Or you can make your own "I feel reassured cuz my Quad G5 is still competent. Clovertown ftw" thread.

 

[miniConvert]

That is great- the BSOD on such an expensive, cutting-edge computer!

Mhm, I have a 670 and it pisses me off no end. It's dual Xeon, but old netburst Xeon, and bugger me is it crap.

Hence why I've got a Mac Pro on the way.

 

[MIDI_EVIL]

Well.. just want to say this..
Not that many people upgrade their machine from the Quad G5 to Mac Pro.
Please. just congratulate new Mac Pro users.

I'm pretty sick of hearing about Clovertown or oct whatever craps in all the thread regarding any CPU or Mac pro.

Or you can make your own "I feel reassured cuz my Quad G5 is still competent. Clovertown ftw" thread.

I hear you bro!


Rich.

 

[Chone]

Mac Pro´s best selling point for me is the fact the Intel processor opens a range of new possibilities and better design on the inside of the case, of course, a faster processor IS very nice but Quad G5 was already powerful, too bad it wasn´t an X86 and it required over-the-top cooling.

The sole idea that my Mac (which will always be here and upgraded, regardless of what happens) will satisfy my gaming needs while I wait to build a much more powerful DX10 PC Gaming Rig is awesome, I don´t buy my Macs for games but the Mac Pro will let me game on it while I wait to build my real new gaming machine and let the Mac Pro satisfy my other needs (such as editing, etc).

I´ve never been this excited about buying a new Mac, and thats saying A LOT in my case.

 

[Mr. Mister]

Looks like it's time to update your sig, Laslo.

Hopefully the Mac Pro's won't be bitten by a Rev. A bug

The Powermac G5s weren't, or at least mine wasn't, affected by that bug, so let's hope!

 

[ender78]

Barefeats has some impressive tests in Photoshop when the machine is outfitted with 3GB of RAM [we all know that Rosetta loves RAM].

http://www.barefeats.com/quad06.html

 

[trogdor!]

uhhh, all this crap being said about the mac pro having obsolete stuff is pathetic. The machine has been out for what....6 days. Lets try and talk about the mac pro, not some non existent i want everything in a tower for under 1000 bucks talk.