Billed as a world exclusive, Neil Bennett, deputy editor at our sister title Digital Arts magazine, has reviewed Apple's new Mac Pro, the first to use the Quad-Core Intel Xeon Nehalem processor.
It provides a "sit-up-and-take-notice" boost in power compared to the previous generation of Mac Pros – and with future software releases it should become even faster says Bennett.
Nehalem also sees the reintroduction of Intel’s Hyper-Threading technology, which runs two processes on each chip core, so Mac OS X thinks it has twice the number of cores it actually has - which in Digital Arts tests have show give you up to a 10 per cent performance boost.
The full detailed review can be found here.
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David said on Fri, 20 Mar 2009
"No Firewire" and "512GB VRAM". Really!
Keith T said on Fri, 20 Mar 2009
another lame upgrade when they should have introduced a midi desktop.
mark ryder said on Fri, 20 Mar 2009
no this is a serious upgrade (the only apple serious upgrade) just need the new snow os to appreciate what this can really do
Joker said on Sun, 22 Mar 2009
They are churning out the same stuff. Bored now.
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