The MacPro: The Single Most Beefy Thing Ever

[DoTheFandango]

http://www.apple.com/macpro/

Wow. That thing is fucking huge. In both the physical and computer sense.

Quad Core. Up to 3GHz.

Every Mac Pro in the lineup features two of the newest Dual-Core Intel Xeon processors. Two dual-cores. One powerful quad workstation. And you get to decide how fast it flies: 2GHz, 2.66GHz, or 3GHz. And at 3GHz, the Mac Pro runs up to 2x faster than the Power Mac G5 Quad.(1)

I don't know how many of you ever used a G5 Quad, but that shit could run any game you wanted at top speed, on a 30" Cinema Display.

http://www.apple.com/macpro/graphics.html

110 FPS for Doom 3 is fucking sweet, especially since my G4 can run it at around 9, because it's a P.O.S. graphically.

[ZeUs!!]

Trumped

[DoTheFandango]

I think not.

[ZeUs!!]

I've just had an idea for an invention: a cheese grater where the cheese gets grated into a box and you take the box out and empty it into your sandwich SHOTGUN

[Bioture]

On the graphics page it says:

Testing conducted by Apple in July 2006 using preproduction 3GHz Mac Pro units and graphics cards. Tested using Doom 3 v1.3.1303 TimeDemo 1, high video quality, at 1280 by 1024

110fps in doom 3 at those specs is fairly mundane especially in SLI systems.

[D1st0rt]

Xeon? If you're going to use server chips, you can get way better machines than that.

[Riesen]

I've just had an idea for an invention: a cheese grater where the cheese gets grated into a box and you take the box out and empty it into your sandwich

Revolutionary.

[tahkis]

110fps in doom 3 at those specs is fairly mundane especially in SLI systems.

Or with 3GHz quad core with $2000 gfx card. Actually you get to same results with PC in only half the price.

EDIT: MacPro with original configurations costs 2559e when you can get PC with same parts for under 2000e. But it's Mac so it has to cost a bit more. And yes, I own Mac too and love it but I don't like paying too much extra to get one even tho OSX is great.

[Zeebu]

like i really need all that shit to run my little spaceship game here

pffft

[DoTheFandango]

Or with 3GHz quad core with $2000 gfx card. Actually you get to same results with PC in only half the price.

EDIT: MacPro with original configurations costs 2559e when you can get PC with same parts for under 2000e. But it's Mac so it has to cost a bit more. And yes, I own Mac too and love it but I don't like paying too much extra to get one even tho OSX is great.

This is completely untrue, and it was shown that Dell, when comprably equipped, costs the same, IF NOT MORE.

Dell Workstation

"Take the Dell Precision Workstation 690, for instance. When kitted out with two Intel Xeon 5150 2.66GHz dual-core processors, 250GB hard drive, 2GB of 667MHz RAM, and 16x DVD burner, you’ll end up paying $3,637. That’s over $1,100 more than the base Mac Pro, which has a similar configuration. And unlike the Mac Pro, which can run Windows XP via Boot Camp, I wouldn’t expect to see Mac OS X supported on this Dell any time in the near future."

Source: http://blog.dealnews.com/?p=45

[Mr. Peanuts]

What about the Dell XPS?

[Jerome Scuggs]

like i really need all that shit to run my little spaceship game here

pffft

not to mention ss doesn't run on mac :P

[DoTheFandango]

not to mention ss doesn't run on mac :P

I beg to differ, but I'm too lazy to reinstall VPC.

[NaiLed]

[Vehicle]

I beg to differ, but I'm too lazy to reinstall VPC.

If you have a new core duo mac, you can't run VPC, which I didn't know until I bought a macbook. (I smell early retirment)

P.S. Nailed owned you Zeus.