Potential reference to new Mac Pro found in OS X El Capitan code

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  • Reply 61 of 65
    Originally Posted by Frank777 View Post

    The all-new Mac Pro...




    And then they build a touchscreen into the Mac Pro’s case. Yes, curved. All the way around. Hey, you can use the Pencil with it!

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  • Reply 62 of 65
    frank777frank777 Posts: 5,839member

    Maybe Apple really is holding the new Mac Pro for a 2016 introduction in order to include Optane memory.

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  • Reply 63 of 65
    hmmhmm Posts: 3,405member
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    Originally Posted by Joe Blasi View Post

     

    they need more pci-e lanes to bad they can't tap the QPI  bus to add more pci-e lanes. Like how some boards did with AMD's HTX bus.


     

    You're just throwing words together here or at least it sounds that way. Intel has those processors set up to allow 40 lanes per cpu. It only seems constrained because Apple attaches a lot of stuff to one socket.

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  • Reply 64 of 65
    wizard69wizard69 Posts: 13,377member
    frank777 wrote: »
    Maybe Apple really is holding the new Mac Pro for a 2016 introduction in order to include Optane memory.

    The way I understand this release is that Octane will first appear on client hardware. It looks like it might take awhile to get to Xeon. Beyond that I'm not convinced that this will be a free upgrade in the sense of OS support. In any event I would suspect that Apple is waiting on new technology, specifically high speed RAM of which there are a number of possible approaches. I still have this desire to see Apple implement Xeon Phi in the Mac Pro and that would have RAM embedded right into the processor package. Phi in the newer revisions could be the system processor but It could also be a replacement for one of the GPU cards. The value of Phi though depends upon the market that wishes to buy a Mac Pro.
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  • Reply 65 of 65
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    Originally Posted by wizard69 View Post





    The way I understand this release is that Octane will first appear on client hardware. It looks like it might take awhile to get to Xeon. Beyond that I'm not convinced that this will be a free upgrade in the sense of OS support. In any event I would suspect that Apple is waiting on new technology, specifically high speed RAM of which there are a number of possible approaches. I still have this desire to see Apple implement Xeon Phi in the Mac Pro and that would have RAM embedded right into the processor package. Phi in the newer revisions could be the system processor but It could also be a replacement for one of the GPU cards. The value of Phi though depends upon the market that wishes to buy a Mac Pro.

     

    The Optane Memory is just a hyper fast SSD (newer technology).  They plan on targetting the consumer market first.  Depending on the interface it will plug into either M.2 slots, though they are also showing off concepts of SSD-DIMM based modules that hook directly into the memory controller (which would provide even lower latency).  The Xeon chips that are available now can handle the existing version of the Optane memory.  Apple could just offer it as an option for installing the Optane based SSD modules in the next Mac Pro which will provide 5 - 7 times the speed over their current SSD and lower latency.   

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