[geeks] Replacing a Mac Pro 2006

[Mark Benson]

On 2 Dec 2012, at 17:24, Shannon wrote:

> I love Apple's gear, but they really need a mid-line that isn't an iMac,
their
> style BS be damned.

The thing is thought their stylistic intentions WOULDN'T be damned. Make
another Cube. If HP can pack a 4-drive carrier, motherboard and 2 PCIe slots
into the Microserver Apple should have no probblem scaling that down a bit to
1 PCIe slots (for Gfx), plus 2 RAM slots (for up to 32GB), a mini-itx size
mainboard with a i5 or i7 on and a couple of hard drive/SSD bays. It'd be
little and cute compared to a DELL and be gut wrenchingly quick... but they
then wouldn't be able to rip off design studios and sell them 68" iMacs or Mac
Pros with 12 cores 'just because'. That's the fear at Apple - they don't want
to sell a mid-size PC because it'd actually be the death of the Mac Pro... but
would that be such a bad thing? (I know, yes it would, but you catch my
drift).

> For now I'm in limbo the Pro seems to be working fine again but I really
> would like to be running Mountain Lion, and I know its days are numbered.

Same here. When you look at the CPU performance figures for a i7 Quad Core
compared to my poorly old Xeon 51xx 2.0GHz 4-core rig it uses a lot less power
and turns out a lot more muscle.


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