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 10:04:14 -0400
- Acceptlanguage: en-US
- Thread-topic: [Fed-Talk] OS on new hardware?
All,
I think I just had a "doesn't have aspergers, but I play someone who does
on TV" moment - I meant no disrespect to Mr. Blackmon. It just occurred to
me that the physical constraints of the mini were not suited to a
processor that demands that much cooling (much less 2 of them). If Mr.
Blackmon was wondering about what the arstechnica forums refer to an xMac
(think Mac pro in a smaller form factor, with various compromises.), that
is certainly possible (but unlikely for reasons listed below).
The bigger issue is that the i7 does much of what you'd expect a xeon to
be able to do (and certain xeons on certain motherboards are
interchangable with i7s), but with an eye toward power management.
The xeons are meant to be stuffed in a box/rack somewhere, run at full
load for 5 years and not fail. The i7s are not over engineered like that,
but provide much of the same power on an intermittent basis.
So, a Mac Mini with an i7 is much of what Mr. Blackmon is asking for.
Perhaps not specifically, but in effect. And it makes an "xMac" redundant.
--
John Lamb
Desktop Support Technician (Contractor)
Customer Service Branch
Center for Biomedical Informatics (CBI)
National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, NIH
10 Center Drive - Building 10 6C103
Bethesda, MD 20814
Telephone (240) 751-6562 | Email: email@hidden
NHLBI Computer Services: http://insider.nhlbi.nih.gov/computer
On 9/20/11 9:49 AM, "Lamb, John (NIH/NHLBI) [C]" <email@hidden>
wrote:
>I have a Mac Pro at home. The heatsink is bigger than a Mini. So... that
>perhaps.
>
>--
>John Lamb
>Desktop Support Technician (Contractor)
>Customer Service Branch
>Center for Biomedical Informatics (CBI)
>National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, NIH
>10 Center Drive - Building 10 6C103
>Bethesda, MD 20814
>Telephone (240) 751-6562 | Email: email@hidden
>NHLBI Computer Services: http://insider.nhlbi.nih.gov/computer
>
>
>
>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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