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Apple quietly adds new Mac Pro and Xserve configurations - kj4btkljv - 12-04-2009

If you weren’t swayed by Rob Griffiths’s reasoning that the iMac was now, for many people, a more sensible option than the Mac Pro, you’ll be glad...

Read more here:
http://www.macworld.com/article/144768/2009/12/pro_xserve_config.html

Jeff


Re: Apple quietly adds new Mac Pro and Xserve configurations - Doc - 12-04-2009

Not the $1600 tower some of us have been clamoring for...


Re: Apple quietly adds new Mac Pro and Xserve configurations - kj4btkljv - 12-04-2009

Doc wrote:
Not the $1600 tower some of us have been clamoring for...

That would have been great, no?

Knock that fancy-schmancy new super powered iMac down a few notches. Stupid iMac.

Smile

Jeff


Re: Apple quietly adds new Mac Pro and Xserve configurations - decay - 12-04-2009

no more 8-core towers?


Re: Apple quietly adds new Mac Pro and Xserve configurations - DRR - 12-04-2009

8 cores still available - just another, faster, 4 core option.


Re: Apple quietly adds new Mac Pro and Xserve configurations - Blankity Blank - 12-04-2009

decay wrote:
no more 8-core towers?
The eight core towers are still available, they just don't have the 3.33Ghz option.


Re: Apple quietly adds new Mac Pro and Xserve configurations - decay - 12-04-2009

my bad, selected the lower-end model, and didn't see 8-core upgrade options.

so it's $3,300 to get in the door with 8-core. ouch.