lol Apple

13/01/2008

Some Apple news reporting today:

Macworld’s Speedmark tests of Apple’s latest high-end desktop system—the eight-core 2.8GHz Mac Pro released earlier this week—show that it’s notably faster than the four-core 2.6GHz Mac Pro it replaces in Apple’s product line.

Thankfully some other people have provided me with an appropriate collection of responses:

1. In other news 2 pounds of feathers weighs more than a pound of lead.

2. Hmmm, new 8 core 2.8 ghz Mac Pro is faster than the old 2.6 ghz 4 core? Alert the press! This is huge!

3. OH MY SCIENCE

But wait, this astounding piece of news continues…

Even more impressively, the new Mac Pro comes close to matching the speed of the previous-generation eight-core 3GHz Mac Pro model, suggesting that internal changes to the Mac Pro line are bolstering performance.

…so it’s pretty fast. But the real innovation here is that it’s almost as fast as a way older model. Well fuck me, I’ll take 2.

There are 5 comments in this article:

  1. 13/01/2008alice say:

    heh heh, “Talks about: andrew, apple, silly”

    that sums it up, doesn’t it? lol

    And btw, every time I mouseover the “Post” button FireBug cries :(

    Event is not defined:
    element=event.srcElement;

    ?

    lol :)

  2. 13/01/2008sergey say:

    That does just about cover it : )

    Oh no!
    An error report at 1:20am… this means only one thing. Enabling FireBug!

  3. 13/01/2008Mujibar say:

    Aww, I have my very own tag on your blog! I’m flattered!

    But yeah, some people get too excited over benchmarks. The only somewhat interesting benchmark is that the new 8-core 2.8 GHz beats the previous generation 8-core 3.0 GHz in many tests. Just shows that Intel’s actually making their chips more efficient.

    Macworld is only 2 days away. I can’t wait to see what goodies are going to come. I think I might need to buy some more tissues.

  4. 16/01/2008lu lu say:

    lol, will you kill me when i tell you i just bought an iMac?

  5. 17/01/2008sergey say:

    Of course not. I only pick on the things that Apple does that I disagree on.

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