Tag archive: Mac Pro

By now, you’re all too aware of the Black Friday deals. Target, Amazon, Radio Shack…they’ve all released (or leaked) their red, green, chaos-filled, full-page ads announcing their discounts. Large retailers have been heavily advertising their TVs, iPods, and tablets this year – choosing to focus on general consumer electronics. But finding gifts for advanced gadget lovers is slightly more difficult, and there are far fewer ads for items like… Read More

High-performance PC desktops and notebooks are hurridly offering system with USB 3.0 connectivity so users with lots of media—or lots of data, anyway—can transfer it quickly between capacious storage devices. However, Apple has yet to offer any systems with built-in USB 3.0 (although FireWire 800 is still on board many Mac systems), so peripheral and storage vendor LaCie is jumping into the gap: folks with a Mac Pro tower or a… Read More

Apple's high-end Mac Pro line of desktop towers have always been aimed at the high-end content-creation and media-editing community, eschewing everyday consumer processors and going straight for the Intel Xeon hardware that normally run powerful servers. However, despite the Mac Pro's power, Apple neglected the line for over a year and a half as it focussed on its consumer offerings; however, the company today announced new Mac Pros… Read More

Sneaky sneaky Apple—today Apple quietly added some more horsepower options to its Mac Pro. If you’re looking to configure a quad-core Mac Pro online at the Apple Store, you may enjoy the new option to add a 3.33GHz Intel Xeon processor to it for an extra $1,200. The

Chipmaker Intel has formally announced its next generation of Xeon processors, codenamed Nehalem-EX, and while they're mainly aimed at data centers and servers, the CPUs could also find their way into workstations and high-end desktops like Apple's Xeon-based Mac Pro line. The new Xeons will feature eight cores, 16 threads, and 24 MB of onboard cache, offering what Intel is characterizing as the greatest performance gain over… Read More

Speculation and rumor has been building for months that Apple would be launching new desktop systems…and today the news has dropped, and Apple updating both it's consumer-oriented Mac mini and iMac desktop systems, along with its Xeon processor-equipped Mac Pros aimed at high-end computing and media production professionals. The diminutive Mac minis have received a significant update, now sporting 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPUs… Read More

Digital projector marker InFocus has long been promoting DisplayLink technology, which enables users to push audio and video to projectors over a standard USB connection, rather than using VGA or HDMI connectors. The advantage: DisplayLink can handle up to six projectors at once, which (depending on graphics capabilities) can mirror the same image or act as independent displays so users can set up video walls or set up presentations that… Read More

According to the French newspaper Libération, a researcher at the CNRS research center has studied emissions from as Mac Pro computer and discovered that they contain the hazardous chemical benzene. Although not in sufficient quantities to cause any immediate danger, the researcher said there was sufficient quantity to cause irritation in his eyes and throat, and prolonged benzene exposure could increase the risk of cancer. All… Read More

In an unusual move, Apple has preempted itself at next week's Macworld Expo in San Francisco by announcing updates to its most powerful computer offerings: the top-of-the-line Mac Pro desktop, and its rack-based Xserve servers. And for folks who appreciate raw power, the new machines do not disappoint, offering eight processor cores on two Intel Xeon 5400 series CPUs running at up to 3.2 GHz, and a new architecture designed to offer… Read More

Apple has rolled out its latest "speed bump," this time enhanceing its top-of-the-line Mac Pro desktop computers with an option to have two quad-core Intel Xeon "Clovertown" processors on board, upping the processor core total to eight for the system's high-end configuration. Apple is still offering quad-core versions of the Mac Pro, sporting two 2.6 or 3.0 GHz Intel Dual-Core Xeon 5100 processors. But the top dog… Read More

Macworld Magazine has announced its 2006 Eddy Award winners for products and services deemed outstanding for their innovation, excellence, and value. Every year, Macworld reviews hundreds of products and tallies up the opinions of its editors, contributors, and other knowledgeable members of the larger Macintosh community—and this year, it invited the larger Mac-using audience to vote for two Readers' Choice awards. Polling is closed,… Read More

At its annual World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) today, Apple Computer finally transitioned its computer product line away from PowerPC processors to Intel-based systems, introducing the new high-end Mac Pro Xeon-based desktop systems along with revamped Xserve one-unit servers. Apple's new Mac Pro line of desktop towers looks very much like the high-end PowerPC G5 quad systems they replace, but the insides are a whole new… Read More

For several articles we have been discussing how to get the most out of your new home theater system. One of the most important tools you can use at home to really optimize your system is to invest in a calibration DVD. These are discs that provide standardized, industrial test signals that will help you set your TV and receiver for the best performance. Many people delegate this task to a paid professional. While this is great if you have… Read More