Re: [Fed-Talk] New MacBooks, etc. UNCLASSIFIED
Re: [Fed-Talk] New MacBooks, etc. UNCLASSIFIED
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] New MacBooks, etc. UNCLASSIFIED
- From: Bryan William Jones <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:37:04 -0700
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.
Yeah, and they are *LOUD*. :-)
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.
Very true. Not many folks have a rack at home... I used to, but my
wife made me take it into the lab.
Bryan
http://prometheus.med.utah.edu/~bwjones/
Bryan William Jones, Ph.D.
email@hidden
University of Utah School of Medicine
Moran Eye Center Rm S3872
65 N. Medical Dr.
Salt Lake City, Utah 84132
http://prometheus.med.utah.edu/~marclab/
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