8-core Xeon MacPros are out

[Shawn Erickson]

On Apr 4, 2007, at 10:45 AM, Larry Sica wrote:

> On 4/4/07, Kevin Callahan <kcall at mac.com> wrote:
>> <http://www.apple.com/macpro/>
>>
>
> I am debating on selling a kidney for one.  Then I think "what would I
> need it for", then i think "ohhh shiny" and re-debate kidney selling.
>
> They also dropped the prices on the displays.

If you are going for the shiny factor I would wait until summer... I  
bet the Mac Pros will get the new Intel chip-set around that time or  
Apple may wait a little bit longer for the new chip-set and 45nm Xeons.

If you have use for it I would get one now (not many would have much  
use for 8 cores just yet). Also Mac OS X 10.4 isn't the best at  
efficiently using those 8 cores (given that 4 cores live behind a  
single bus and Tiger has no core/thread affinity capabilities active).

-Shawn