12 Aug
2007
12 Aug
'07
10:15 a.m.
At 1:10 PM +0100 8/12/07, Stroller wrote:
To be fair, you probably fancy a MacPro with EIGHT
cores. I know I do!!
Ditto, though I will probably go for a 2 dual core system rather than
the dual quad core when the time comes. That $1500 price jump is a
bit hard to stomach, and even a 4-core system will blow my current
dual 2Ghz G5 tower away. Besides I'll need a nice chunk of change to
beef up the RAM.
From whom else could you get an 8-core desktop
workstation?
I doubt that it'd be very much cheaper!
I don't know what a 8-core desktop from anyone else would cost (I'm
not even sure anyone offers something like it), however, I do know
that a laptop from Dell comperable to the top of the line Mac Book
Pro was about $600US more last November/December when I spec'd them
out for someone.
When I open a Mac I feel the same sensation of quality
workmanship
that I do with old Unix workstations like SGIs & Suns. The screws in
the base of iMacs
I feel it is actually higher at least on the Pro systems than on some
of the more modern Sun hardware I've seen.
Zane
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