Apple Unveils New Mac Pro Featuring Quad 64-bit Xeon Processors
Apple Unveils New Mac Pro Featuring Quad 64-bit Xeon Processors: “Apple today unveiled the new Mac Pro, a quad Xeon, 64-bit desktop workstation featuring two new Dual-Core Intel Xeon processors running up to 3.0GHz and a new system architecture that delivers up to twice the performance of the Power Mac G5 Quad. With advanced performance, greater expansion, higher performance graphics options and unprecedented customization, the newly designed Mac Pro is the ideal system for the most demanding user.”
(Via Apple Hot News.)
Now this is a bummer, i just bought my G5 2 months ago, and now they have come out with the new system. Thank goodness apple machines hold their value. I spoke with the company i purchased this machine from and as soon as they get the new machines, I will be able to upgrade for around $500 for the bigger machine 
I am looking forward to getting the new workstation in a few months, once i get it and have time to run it I will post a review here.
The stats for my current workstation are as follows
- Quad 2.5 gHz PPC Processors
- 4 GB Crucial 533 mHz PC 4200 Ram
- NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT
- 250 GB Hard Drive
- Airport
- Bluetooth
- Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-110D
This system seems to perform pretty well, i have had it hang in some windows before, such as Zend Studio, when i format the code using the keyboard shortcut. Firefox sometimes get’s overloaded.
This is pretty much how it runs for me.
RAM Usage: 1 GB / 4 GB [||||||||||] – Disk Space: 1.36 TB with 1.1 TB Free – Resolution: 1920×1200 – Running: Mac OS X 10.4.7 (8J135) – Processes: 132 – Uptime: 11:58 up 6 days, 20:36, 3 users, load averages: 2.55 2.59 2.62
