Re: [Fed-Talk] New MacBooks, etc. UNCLASSIFIED
Re: [Fed-Talk] New MacBooks, etc. UNCLASSIFIED
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] New MacBooks, etc. UNCLASSIFIED
- From: "Walls, Bryan K. (MSFC-IS30)" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:31:47 -0600
At 1:47 PM -0800 2/26/08, Peter Link wrote:
It's an incremental upgrade. Faster CPU, touchpad the same as
iPhone, stuff like that. If I were in the market for a laptop, I
wouldn't hesitate buying one.
Now, if they would announce a half-size Mac Pro desktop, then I'd be
very excited. Something along the lines of a single quad-core CPU,
good video card, 4 memory slots, 2 hard drive slots, single
SuperDrive/BluRay, 2 spare PCI Express slots, 1 FW800, 1FW400, few
USB, and an eSATA port, all in a box half the size (and weight) of
the current Mac Pro. An iMac is nice but I'd really like two of them
tied together.
You know, that's pretty close to an Xserve, if you could find a
BluRay to fit in an SATA port. Definitely not cost effective at
somewhere around $3k, and the video card is really the pits.
2.8 GHz Quad-Core CPU, ATI RAdeo X1300 64MB video, 8 memory slots, 2
hard drive slots (SATA or SAS), one slot for BluRay (8x double layer
SuperDrive already included ), 2 spare PCI Express slots (one 8-lane,
one 16-lane), 2 FW800, few USB (2 on back, one on front), no eSATA
port. One third the size, but 75% of the weight of a Mac Pro! Comes
with a single 80GB SATA drive installed, and you'd need to buy a copy
of Leopard (unless you're comfy with Server). $2700 on Smartpay +
$200 for Bluray.
Not exactly convenient for home use, I'll grant you.
--
Bryan Walls My words are not NASA policy.
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