Posts by Marvin

Quote:Originally Posted by Lemon Bon Bon If HP can have 'Workstations' starting at £700+? Why can't we have a top end iMac config' monitor less price of £1295-iSH with 8 gigs of ram, SSD, 7xx Nvidia and an i7 quad? Well, those...

Quote:Originally Posted by nht Hmmm...12x? That's in the data spec and they control both GPU and MB completely. Maybe, Thunderbolt bandwidth is confusing. There are two controller types: 2-channel and 4-channel. The 2-channel ones...

Quote:Originally Posted by superjunaid too bad Purge command no longer works with Mavericks. I wonder why they'd do that. Compressing inactive memory is fine but sometimes it just needs flushed. SSDs are so fast now, I don't think...

Quote:Originally Posted by Tallest Skil Quote:Originally Posted by ndoboy1984 Wow, so many Nintendo haters in here. I wonder if you guys want Apple to kill Xbox and PlayStation as well? Xbox One has killed itself. Absolutely...

Quote:Originally Posted by Tallest Skil *low whistle* Is that really to scale right there? Yup, that's to scale. The Cube would be a touch shorter (9.1" vs 9.9") but the Cube photo there was at a slight angle and it wasn't that far...

Quote:Originally Posted by nht The same thermal and power requirements exist for both machines for the FirePros. The old one had two CPUs so 130W went to one of them. You can't put two of these FirePros in a 2012 Mac Pro. The Dell...

Quote:Originally Posted by nht Also it is 2x FirePros in the spec bumped Mac Pro unless you think that Apple would simply leave a bunch of lanes unused.  Why would there not be two x16 slots?  None. So it is: 2x 8+ core Xeon + 2x...

Quote:Originally Posted by nht The old Mac Pro was limited by the chipset.  A spec bumped 2013 Mac Pro has the same number of PCIe lanes.  Lets count in the new Mac Pro:  Two x16 lanes + 6 x4 lanes. Split that up into the spec bump...

Quote:Originally Posted by Junkyard Dawg Asking pros to throw out their $5000 iTubes to upgrade the GPU isn't what most people would call "compelling". I agree that Apple should focus on Mac Pro GPUs, but using proprietary...

Quote:Originally Posted by Junkyard Dawg Hint:  if you have to explain a product name that relies on a reference to a relatively unknown locale...it sucks. Most people haven't seen the movie "Mavericks".  Most people have no idea...