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Quote: Originally Posted by mjteix According to the developer notes, here, and here, it's x16, x1, x4, x4. This is the default configuration, it may be changed to x8 x8 x4 x4 or others (Configuration Expansion Slot Utility), if you don't need x16 …
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross I suppose. What would have been nicer though, is something I just noticed the possibility of, when taking another look at a pic of an opened machine. The four drives, being installed in removable sleeves,…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross I don't think it means much of anything. These are pro machines. Very few will be sitting around long enough, idle, for someone to be watching a movie on it, though I might. One might use it to demo the medi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mwswami The Mac Pro doesn't seem to have an IR sensor \ . It pretty much means either 1. New Cinema Displays with IR (and iSight) are coming, or 2. Separate IR accessory (USB/IR and Apple Remote) that can be used …
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There are a total of 4 full length slots, one double width 16 lanes slot is occupied by the graphics card. The remaining three slots seem to support configurable lanes. But, I couldn't seem to find any info on the total number of lanes.
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It's more than plenty for my use. I plan to deploy 4GB (8x512MB), as I remember reading somewhere in Intel documentation that you get best performance (on Bensley) with all slots occupied. Other Woodcrest workstations are being offered at 32 and …
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The Mac Pro doesn't seem to have an IR sensor \ . It pretty much means either 1. New Cinema Displays with IR (and iSight) are coming, or 2. Separate IR accessory (USB/IR and Apple Remote) that can be used with older Macs as well
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Quote: Originally Posted by JeffDM If I am interpreting it right, I think all the Mac Pro carriers are included and no extra boards are needed. In the "Tech Specs" page: "Four independent 3Gb/s Serial ATA cable-free, direct attach hard drive…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross It looks to be a simple removeable drive case, or plate that the drive is attached to, similar to a hot removable system. It just plugs into the rear sockets. I had a G5 XServe and it shipped with filler dr…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross But not by more than a few percent. It was a problem years ago, but not anymore. I used it successfully with far slower machines than these. Thanks, that's good to know.
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I am waiting on the iMac update as well before I buy it for my son. HP seems to have good supply - they have a lead time of under a week for 2.4GHz Conroe. Dell seems to have a much longer wait.
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Quote: The new "cable-free, direct-attach installation system" for the hard drives seems like the mechanism used in the G5 XServes. I REALLY HOPE that Apple will provide all the enclosures for the drives so that we will be able to upgrade/add the d…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross Software RAID isn't always slower. Hardware RAID often has better fault protection though. Doing RAID in software should take additional cycles from the CPU, specially for RAID configurations that require p…
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Few observations: - SAS support only in the new XServe. Would have preferred it in the Mac Pro as well but it's OK. - 4 hard drives but no hardware RAID support. \ Have to depend on Mac OS X to get RAID which is got to be much slower. There m…
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Quote: Originally Posted by JeffDM The real difference, to get a reasonable comparison, is closer to $300. Still is a better deal, but the old RDF is over stating the price difference. The Mac Pro might be more comparable to the Prec 590 than th…
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Quote: Originally Posted by JeffDM The real difference, to get a reasonable comparison, is closer to $300. Still is a better deal, but the old RDF is over stating the price difference. The Mac Pro might be more comparable to the Prec 590 than th…
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And it is $1000 cheaper than Dell!!
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At the WWDC 2004, when Apple introduced Tiger there were banners saying something like this ...
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Quote: Originally Posted by 1337_5L4Xx0R Also, I've seen benchmarks of Merom with 667mhz and 800mhz frontside busses, and it makes like 5% difference... Hence, I'm grabbing the first Merom MBP. Yes, but the highest Merom (2.33GHz) is a 14x mult…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Placebo So basically Santa Rosa = Centrino 2? Napa is called Centrino Duo, so logically Santa Rosa may formally be called Centrino 2 Duo.