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Quote: Originally Posted by troberts Montevina platformPenryn processors - more energy efficient, faster FSB, SSE4.1 GMA X4500 - better integrated graphics DDR3 RAM - faster and more energy efficient WiMAX - 802.16 wireless There are three up…
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It would be just a tad simplistic for anyone to attribute Apple stock drop of the yesterday just to bad reactions to Steve's product announcements at MW08. Both the Dow and Nasdaq had severe drops yesterday, and heck so did eBay, Google and RI…
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Quote: Originally Posted by 9secondko I also am waiting to buy a new Macbook Pro. Hopefully Apple can get the quad core mobile chips early enough (doubt it, but boy would that be spiffy) The current state of Leopard, while perfectly functio…
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Quote: Originally Posted by lookingglass A $1,000 Mac, please??? Hello? Sure, No Problem: A 2.0GHz Core 2 Duo Mac Mini with 2 GB of Ram and a 160 GB HD. Actually, that would be $1,024, before sales tax and with no mouse or keyboard. A…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Joe_the_dragon A amd 4x4 system can give you a dual quad-core cpu system without the high cost sever ram and with more io at lower price then a Intel system. But Apple is MARRIED to Intel now (which is why they mana…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Joe_the_dragon Skull Trail is a joke FB-DIMMS and weak SLI 2 Full x16 pci-e 1.1 slots are linked over a pci-e 1.1 x16 bus from the intel server chipset io to the nvidia chip. FB-DIMMs at 800 with even more chipsets …
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Quote: Originally Posted by mjteix I think it's gonna be the other way around. When the Mac Pro will have 8 cores, there will be room for a quad-core midrange Mac (whatever form factor Apple chooses for it). According to the leaked specs and p…
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Quote: Originally Posted by vinea I was about to say that Dell does it but they don't anymore...its $1674 now. So I guess we're at 2.0Ghz for $1649 if they want to stay below Dell pricing or $1699 if they don't care. Does $200 more make you f…
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Quote: Originally Posted by vinea As Ben points out its a modified X5000 motherboard. There's also no "fun with numbers". Dell offers a single 2.0Ghz CPU X5000 based Precision for $1503. A price $4 less from Apple is hardly impossible. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by vinea The retail price of a 5130 is only $300 while the 5150 is $680. Take $1300 off the stock Pro (2500 - 1300=1200) and add $300 and you're around that $1500 mark. That's not quite how it works but as a quick sanit…
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Quote: Originally Posted by vinea Apple has no economies of scale going for them with Conroe given they have no other model using Conroe at this time. The iMac and Mini both leverage the 1.5M laptop sales to reduce component costs (or vice versa…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin That thing is absolutely amazing looking. For some reason, I've never liked the Mac Pro/G5 design but it must have been the sheer bulk of it. In that form factor, that design looks very nice indeed and look at a…