Re: [Fed-Talk] OS on new hardware?
Re: [Fed-Talk] OS on new hardware?
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] OS on new hardware?
- From: "Lamb, John (NIH/NHLBI) [C]" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 09:49:06 -0400
- Acceptlanguage: en-US
- Thread-topic: [Fed-Talk] OS on new hardware?
I have a Mac Pro at home. The heatsink is bigger than a Mini. So... that
perhaps.
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On 9/20/11 9:25 AM, "Blackmon Jerry (Contractor)" <email@hidden>
wrote:
>I was talking to someone about this yesterday. What's to stop Apple from
>putting Xeon chips in a mini and calling it a day? Thunderbolt solves
>expansion problems. Hell, the new i5 minis alone are pretty powerful.
>I've got one effortlessly handling streaming video that choked a Core 2.
>Processor load is negligible where the Core 2 was running at 98% and
>stuttering.
>
>Trucks. I handle H I G H end data processing requirements. The Mac Pros
>we currently have are overkill.
>
>---
>Jerry Blackmon <email@hidden>
>Engraving Support: Mac Specialist
>Senior Systems Administrator, OITO
>
>"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to
>change. The realist adjusts the sails." -- William Arthur Ward
>
>From: "Pike, Michael (IHS/HQ)"
><email@hidden<mailto:email@hidden>>
>Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 19:43:29 -0400
>To: Todd Heberlein <email@hidden<mailto:email@hidden>>
>Cc: "email@hidden<mailto:email@hidden>"
><email@hidden<mailto:email@hidden>>
>Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] OS on new hardware?
>
>I predict mac pro goes way of Xserve.
>
>Mac pro is too much power for the average Facebook/twitter user and that
>seems to be apples new target. IMHO.
>
>They dumped optical media why keep a machine around that has not one but
>two optical drives?
>
>Sent from my iPhone 4
>
>On Sep 19, 2011, at 5:13 PM, "Todd Heberlein"
><email@hidden<mailto:email@hidden>> wrote:
>
>I picked up a new Mac Pro at an Apple Store today and was surprised to
>find that it had Snow Leopard (10.6.4) on it and not Lion. Is Apple not
>shipping Lion on the latest Mac Pros, or do I just have an exceptionally
>old computer that had been sitting around in the back room? :-\
>And if anyone has a new Mac Pro that came with Lion, how was the
>re-install media shipped? On a little USB stick?
>Todd
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