Posts by mjteix

Quote: Originally Posted by dagamer34 Still looking for Thunderbolt devices... otherwise it's just a miniDisplay port with a nifty logo. Promise Pegasus R4 and R6 will be available for order from the Apple Store and authorized...

Quote: Originally Posted by AllanMc But what professional users need is a re-designed MacPro, maybe half the volume size of todays having just a motherboard with twin zeon multicore processors 32gbt of RAM slots and 8 full PCIexpress...

Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil They'll be updated when the chips exist. They're tracking for Q4 this year. Depending on the models... The Xeons are divided in multiples families of products, not all will be made available at...

Quote: Originally Posted by zeph OK, just read on another forum that the Xeon 3.2GHz W3565's price came down just last month. Perhaps Apple will address this when they buy them at the new prices. Right. That's right, Intel...

Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil Thunderbolt, same form factor, same screen sizes, Sandy Bridge chips, same RAM/HDD, GPU from the Radeon 6xxx family. It may look not that much on "paper", but if they can do for the...

Quote: Originally Posted by marvfox Will this be a great advantage over the 2011 Sandy Bridge Processor they are using now? Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil Depends on what you mean by great. I wouldn't think any more than a...

Quote: Originally Posted by wizard69 I just took a peak at some info on the new Xeons. In turbo Mode the single core speed of the SB based Xeon will hit almost 4GHz. That is interesting in and of itself as it might indicate a faster...

Quote: Originally Posted by JoeB why not use the other 4 on the X16 link? plans for 2 TB port systems? at least hook them to the stuff on the DMI linked SB. Ask them! The controller chip itself is small 15x15mm (or so), but to...

Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin You get 95% of the performance from the card with just PCIe 2.0 x4, which has a bandwidth of 2GByte/s (16Gbps) and 75% with PCIe 2.0 x1 (500MB/s = 4Gbps). That reminded me of an article about the new...

Quote: Originally Posted by Tailpipe mjteix, If Apple can put in an i7 SB running at 2.3 Ghz with 25 W TDP, that would be much better. Of course, the overlap with the 13" MBP will be noticeably greater. When it arrives, I think...