10-02-2006, 03:27 AM
I don't doubt that they're awesome machines. But it's the "only" intel tower that Apple makes now. The others are yesterday's keynote news, so their only modern tower is an expensive machine that at this point appears to be financially prohibitive for anyone but the most well-heeled of customers. You don't have to run a bank of rendering workstations to desire or "need" the most power that you can get your hands on. At this point, this one intel tower is their only transitional offering.
My attitude doesn't come from a position of complaint but surprise. I was glad that Apple had apparently completed it's transition to intel based processors. The tower has been the venerable centerpiece of Apple's computer arsenal and I'm sure it will continue to be just that.
You all make a lot great points regarding the breakthrough nature of the ram, and the nuclear properties of of it's computational prowess. That's great. More than the well-heeled bought the previous towers. That's why I suspect Apple has something else coming out. Perhaps they can ratchet down the speed a mach or two make a normal tower for normal professionals like myself.
I have a feeling though, that even if Apple charged 10 grand for the thing, and the ram was $1000 per GB, this thread would read the same.
My attitude doesn't come from a position of complaint but surprise. I was glad that Apple had apparently completed it's transition to intel based processors. The tower has been the venerable centerpiece of Apple's computer arsenal and I'm sure it will continue to be just that.
You all make a lot great points regarding the breakthrough nature of the ram, and the nuclear properties of of it's computational prowess. That's great. More than the well-heeled bought the previous towers. That's why I suspect Apple has something else coming out. Perhaps they can ratchet down the speed a mach or two make a normal tower for normal professionals like myself.
I have a feeling though, that even if Apple charged 10 grand for the thing, and the ram was $1000 per GB, this thread would read the same.