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Early next year we could see a 12-core Mac with 128GB RAM that just screams: a Mega Mac, if you will.


Never mind the environmental effect of cheap flights... have Apple no conscience? :shock: ;)

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Well, I could remove the radiators, oven and gas hob from my flat. This Mac will heat my home and cook my fud. 8-)

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A V-12 Mac. Will make my current V-8 look rather tame.

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....because the general user really needs that many cores

*sigh* :roll:

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....because the general user really needs that many cores

*sigh* :roll:


As Dell put it in one of their adverts: one for reading email, one for downloading music. It’s all very simple. Please try to keep up. ;)

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A V-12 Mac. Will make my current V-8 look rather tame.


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....because the general user really needs that many cores

*sigh* :roll:


General users don't buy Mac Pro's...But compiling on 8-cores is nice and fast, as it video encoding :D


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Yeah.... I want one...

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Lets hope they'll have worked out what triple channel RAM is by the time they release the next one!

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Yeah.... I want one...

ditto heck knows what for though! :oops:

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I think I’ll wait for the dual 16-core Mac Pros.

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