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New Mac. WHOA.

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nothanks
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GAME OVER.
64 Bit.
Quad-Core Xeon 3ghz.

The thing is NUTS.

http://www.apple.com/macpro/
Aug 9 2006 12:24PM
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juanborlando
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yeah i heard about that. things crazy.
Aug 9 2006 12:25PM
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BigJew
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and the best part is, What the fuck do you need all that for?
Aug 9 2006 12:32PM
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nothanks
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I don't know....... using.... iTunes and AIM and Safari. Oh and GarageBand.

Actually, a ton of people need extremly high end systems, AND 64-bit is the future.
Aug 9 2006 12:34PM
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ski_cartel
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I know, when I saw that I was like holy shit, time to sell a few things. I cant wait for lepeord too, the samples look sweet. You can even creat your own widgets of web site. Now I dont even half to type in newschoolers.com. It will just always be there
Aug 9 2006 12:41PM
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fukeneh
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daaaaaaaaammnnnn




Aug 9 2006 12:43PM
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St.Steezy
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its nuts, two 3ghz dual core chips. When I first saw it I was like, what the fuck.
Aug 9 2006 12:50PM
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coordy12
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16gb RAM

uhhhhh who needs that other than the fucking pentagon
Aug 9 2006 12:50PM
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St.Steezy
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and yeah the new ichat looks sick, the remote desktop feature is going to be so handy.
Aug 9 2006 1:04PM
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Luc.
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this all sounds the same to me...which isnt saying much.
Aug 9 2006 1:40PM
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-=koLLac=-
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damn, talk about overpowered. Now Mac's are really gonna take over the video editing users
Aug 9 2006 2:02PM
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Xave
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wish i could buy that with 2 30 inch displays...

i wouldnt get out of my house for weeks
Aug 9 2006 2:11PM
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What_A_Wookie
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its only like 9g's
Aug 9 2006 2:13PM
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ski_cartel
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no kidding, and the new time machien feature is wicked, you can go back and retrieve almost any deleted file. As soo as they put it on the macbook pro im buying one
Aug 9 2006 2:15PM
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mad_540_trix
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this is getting kinda rediculous. two dual cores? four 500GB hard drives? 16GB of RAM? two 30 inch displays?  you could do lots of shit with that computer, but i'm not sure why you'd need it yet lol.
Aug 9 2006 2:29PM
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Ghst
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That's fucking crazy, my balls just exploded
Aug 9 2006 2:36PM
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hendrik.
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didnt the last crazy overpowered Mac get removed from sale because they were worried terrorists would put it to use to coordinate hundreds of attacks at once or something?
Aug 9 2006 2:39PM
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St.Steezy
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what?!?!... Never heard that before. The G5 (previous most powerful comupter) was never removed from sale.
Aug 9 2006 2:42PM
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Holte
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my neighbor ordered one yesterday. i'm almost debating getting one of the less expensive ones. it would solve all my video editing needs forever.
Aug 9 2006 2:48PM
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ski_cartel
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people in the graffic design buisness. I have family friends that own signing companys and do work the the city and provience. They have 5 mac G5's all with the most you can cram into them and they are all used nearly to their potential. They have one computer controling 4 or 5 machiens at once. Its crazy but nessary
Aug 9 2006 2:48PM
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skierdudeguy
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i have no idea what any of that means. so like... 4 times faster? holds 8 times the stuff?
Aug 9 2006 2:55PM
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Kornn101
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two dual cores = pimp
have 4 gigs of ram, and render a video in two hours, or have 16 gigs, and render in 30 minutes
500gb Harddrive will fill up FAST when your raw video is 1080i
and two 30 inch displays? shit why not
Aug 9 2006 3:26PM
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KillerMonkey
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I want one but all  the macs are so goddamn expensive. I only have 512mb of ram and that thing can have up to 16gigs. THAT IS REDIC.

Aug 9 2006 3:30PM
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andy_boy
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I went into the purchase segment for that computer, and do you realize that:
$2,499.00 is just the base model.
If you want to get all of the things they list, the total cost is $18,432.000.
Now who the fuck wants to pay that?
Aug 9 2006 3:30PM
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mad_540_trix
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if you read more on it i believe that it says you can have up to 8 displays.
Aug 9 2006 4:07PM
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steevner
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HOLY SHIT. you can have up to two terabytes of storage, that means:

2 terabytes of storage gives you:
4 hours of uncompressed HD video (1)
144 hours of high definition video(2)
168 hours of digital video (3)
250,000 RAW photos (4)


(copied from the site)
Aug 9 2006 4:19PM
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Giv_Clothing
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Macs are amazing to say it simply...The fact that you could build a supercomputer out of a bunch of G5's was amazing...with the new mac it's going to make supercomputers more common place. I know this is not interesting to most people but supercomputers will eventually control the world a'la the Matrix...and we have Apple to thank for starting the revolution...I'm so excited...
Aug 9 2006 4:32PM
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Ryno
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Just...wow...
Aug 9 2006 4:36PM
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Aseets
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You could have 1 computer for your entire family, and have everyone use it at the same time, right?
Aug 9 2006 4:39PM
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nothanks
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Shit is blowwwin up.
Aug 9 2006 5:16PM
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cobra_commander
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one hard drive for most computer stuff (all programs and software) one harddrive for back ups (using time machine) one hard drive for media (video, photo and music) but this could easily expand to another harddrive. and the last hardrive for any thing else. 

All profesionals that use a computer for editing and  design (graphical or engeniring) have atleast two displays. and when you start useing CADs or doing video or photo editing or creating just about anything you are often useing more then one program. and you always need itunes and a safari window for newschoolers. yes you could be using that 16 gigs of memory+ 2 gigs of video memory.
Aug 9 2006 5:35PM
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Crock360
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You could've had 16 gigs of RAM on the G5. It's all optional, and waaay expensive.

basically the only difference is the processing speed. I love my G5. This Mac Pro is sick, but doesn't really make the previous model obsolete either. 
Aug 9 2006 7:17PM
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weenox
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Specifications spacer.gif i just built my dream computer....too bad its $18432

  • Two 3GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon
  • 16GB (8 x 2GB)
  • 500GB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s
  • 500GB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s
  • 500GB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s
  • 500GB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s
  • NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 512MB, Stereo 3D (2 x dual-link DVI)
  • Apple Cinema HD Display (30" flat panel)
  • Apple Cinema HD Display (30" flat panel)
  • 2 x SuperDrives
  • Both Bluetooth 2.0+EDR and AirPort Extreme
  • Fibre Channel Card
  • Apple Wireless Keyboard and Apple wireless Mighty Mouse - U.S. English
  • Mac OS X - U.S. English
  • Mac OS X Server (Unlimited-Client)
  • Logic Express preinstalled
  • AppleCare Protection Plan for Mac Pro/Power Mac (w/or w/o Display) - Auto-enroll
Aug 9 2006 7:36PM
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Liam.
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i dont have money to get a computer...im jea!lous
Aug 9 2006 7:51PM
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LDuggan420
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That is rediculous.... but so is the price
Aug 9 2006 7:51PM
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Thomson.
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umm, you forgot a very important feature. Liquid Cooled !
Aug 9 2006 7:53PM
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nothanks
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Obviously it dosen't. Your G5 is still most likely screaming if you're running a fair amount of RAM.

But...

with stuff like this, it just jumps up the game, and blows away all competition...and re-sets the bar...SUPER high. leads to more and more advancements...which we can all enjoy.
Aug 9 2006 8:02PM
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scratchskier170
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that already happened.

that things ridiculous. im more of a laptop person though. i got a powerbook g4 17". definatly enough for me
Aug 9 2006 8:05PM
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spere
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a look into the future

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Aug 9 2006 9:15PM
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Nihiriju
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yeha those wrere the first g4 towers i think.....cuz they wrere regarded as mild super computers for thier time. its awesssome!
Aug 9 2006 10:31PM
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wolfmansbro
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Amazing yes. im glad apple has finally starting to get the money to bring the power of PC's to Macs. Once the price gap is narrowed microsoft will have a run for its money.
Overpriced? yes but you gotta realize HD and graphic designs need this. most use two computers anways
Aug 9 2006 10:33PM
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Dirty.Harry.
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dude. macs are amazing. ive used them forever. never, never get bugs and shit like that.
Aug 9 2006 10:34PM
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SiverMike
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Damn man, and it cooks food too!
Aug 9 2006 11:30PM
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yeti
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the price gap HAS been closed with this release. nearly neck to neck if not slightly cheaper than a comparable dell...but you can run OSX and XP.

power of pc's to macs? with every new chip release (pre-intel switch) they clobbered PC's. Yeah were pricy, but its kinda like buying a corvette vs. a porsche.
Aug 10 2006 4:08AM
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d-loc
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ive had 64-bit for 2 years now or more... glad mac can finally catch up
Aug 10 2006 8:49AM
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SammyBK
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64 Bit won't really even matter until the OS and all software running under it is native 64bit.

Also, you can't forget that not all of the software has been ported over to x86 architecture, so all of the performance gain over the G5 may be lost to rosetta for the time being.

Aug 10 2006 11:46AM
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wolfmansbro
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its one of those things that you buy for furture upgrades. deff be worth it in the near future once 64 bit catches up
Aug 10 2006 1:41PM
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cobra_commander
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Lepord comes out in the spring.
Aug 10 2006 2:21PM
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fukeneh
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at WWDC steve said late 2006/early 2007
Aug 10 2006 2:24PM
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cobra_commander
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web site says spring 07.
Aug 10 2006 2:25PM
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