Re: [Fed-Talk] OS on new hardware?
Re: [Fed-Talk] OS on new hardware?
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] OS on new hardware?
- From: "Villano, Paul Mr CIV USA TRADOC" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 11:37:46 -0400
I specifically got a Macbook Air & foolishly didn't check the chip beforehand so was surprised it's not much more than an Ipad with a keyboard.
On Sep 20, 2011, at 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.
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> Trucks. I handle H I G H end data processing requirements. The Mac Pros we currently have are overkill.
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> Jerry Blackmon <email@hidden>
> Engraving Support: Mac Specialist
> Senior Systems Administrator, OITO
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> "The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change. The realist adjusts the sails." -- William Arthur Ward
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> 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?
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> I predict mac pro goes way of Xserve.
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> Mac pro is too much power for the average Facebook/twitter user and that seems to be apples new target. IMHO.
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> They dumped optical media why keep a machine around that has not one but two optical drives?
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> Sent from my iPhone 4
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> On Sep 19, 2011, at 5:13 PM, "Todd Heberlein" <email@hidden<mailto:email@hidden>> wrote:
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> 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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