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Intel has confirmed that they will be delivering the first of the Nehalem (Core i7) processors to customers in November with expectations pointing to the 17th. The Core i7 represents a significant architectural improvement over the Core 2 Duos used in existing Macs. The exact rollout of these chips remains a bit unclear. The first processors to be released in November are said to be high end Desktop versions of the processor. Apple, however, has traditionally used Intel’s server-class processors for the Mac Pro rather than the desktop versions…
While this should be a good marker for performance improvements coming to the Mac Pro, it’s still not clear when Intel will be introducing the appropriate server-class (Xeon) versions of Nehalem. Apple has traditionally used Intel’s Xeon chips for their Mac Pros which are due to be updated.
I’m looking at the 2.8 quad-core Mac Pro, but the above has given me pause. Would the new *Core i7* necessarily mean that third-party RAM would have to be updated, or would the current sticks (for the quad-core) still work in the new?
I’m probably still leaning to the current Mac Pro as I don’t know how long it will be ’til the new models come out and I usually wait a while after anything new comes out for others to be the beta testers, see if there’s bugs in the latest and greatest.
Still it makes the decision that much harder…
Intel has confirmed that they will be delivering the first of the Nehalem (Core i7) processors to customers in November with expectations pointing to the 17th. The Core i7 represents a significant architectural improvement over the Core 2 Duos used in existing Macs. The exact rollout of these chips remains a bit unclear. The first processors to be released in November are said to be high end Desktop versions of the processor. Apple, however, has traditionally used Intel’s server-class processors for the Mac Pro rather than the desktop versions…
While this should be a good marker for performance improvements coming to the Mac Pro, it’s still not clear when Intel will be introducing the appropriate server-class (Xeon) versions of Nehalem. Apple has traditionally used Intel’s Xeon chips for their Mac Pros which are due to be updated.
I’m looking at the 2.8 quad-core Mac Pro, but the above has given me pause. Would the new *Core i7* necessarily mean that third-party RAM would have to be updated, or would the current sticks (for the quad-core) still work in the new?
I’m probably still leaning to the current Mac Pro as I don’t know how long it will be ’til the new models come out and I usually wait a while after anything new comes out for others to be the beta testers, see if there’s bugs in the latest and greatest.
Still it makes the decision that much harder…
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