Mac Pro refresh bumps up the high end: these go to 12 cores

I am disappointed about the new Mac Pro (and the new Macs in general)

The latest Macs/Mac Pros have no:

- no HDMI (except for the Mac Mini)
- no Blu-ray
- no USB 3
- no eSATA
- video cards are so damn slow.... 1 GB...??? ATI Radeon HD 5870 is a joke... PCs have 2 GB video cards or even Dual SLI cards
- loud (no Zalman cooler as an option)
- no decent keyboard (it's a pain to type with it!!! The Logitech Wireless Keyboard K350 is so much nicer!)
- no acceptable mouse!
- Mini DisplayPort is another bad joke! Why do I have to shell out $30 to connect my screen?

The first thing I do is throw away (actually give away to students) the mouse and the keyboard and get myself a real keyboard and a real mouse from Logitech.

An entry level Mac Pro is empty, I would have to add all these components... and still Blu-ray wouldn't play. A better video card won't help much without an driver blessed by Apple. I spend a boatload of money and the new Mac Pros aren't faster. My new Dells are so wicked fast ;-)

The 6-core is a little slower and the dual 6-core is a lot slower (but I paid a fortune for it!!!)... OK, admitted Cinema 3D would be indeed faster, but I don't use it (and I won't use it anytime soon) and most apps won't take advantage of anytime 6 or 12-core anytime soon. Maybe in 2-3 years multi-core will be en vogue, but today neither Final Cut nor Creative Suite 5 takes much notice whether you have 4 core or dual 6core...

The new Mac Pro late summer 2010 is so much slower than my new Dells!

And most of all Macs are totally overpriced! Look at how badly the economy is doing:-(

Unexpected Halt to Foreclosures at Ally Financial and JPMorgan Chase

And you know why Apple will be doomed! ;-)

Phil, Houston, Texas

w0w-wa-wee-wah!!! ;))

So, if the Radeon HD 5770 is shipping in a brand-new, just-introduced top-of-the-line Mac Pro, does that make it one generation behind the curve or two?

OMG, CS5 is gonna crash SO fast with the new mac pro I'm gonna order next month! And with Dual 27's, is that Adobe Error screen will be beautiful!

Damnit I knew it. As we discussed on Sunday's talkcast… it was inevitable Apple would release new Mac Pros because I recently bought one. The crappy part is I couldn't wait because of a project I'm working on.

Argh

How fast will these baby's convert my media with handbrake :-)

My current Quad Core iMac rendered my Elgato Turbo HD stick redundant.

Video card stats are always a bit confusing to me, including this time.

What does "one DVI (dual-link) port" mean? Does dual mean I can hook up my 2 DVI monitors to the dual-link port?

And still no USB 3.0....

Excuse me while I go cry all over this:
http://www.blackmagic-design.com/products/ultrastudiopro/

Only this to say, Wwwwwooowww! 12-core of Wowsomeness!

If I had the money to just throw around, the first thing I would do is buy a totally maxed-out Mac Pro.

Damn those are sweet machines...