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It is a long debate whether an 8 core machine can actually take advantage of all the cores at any given point. While the Mac community is screaming of excitement this morning when the announce was made on Apple.com, some were just impressed with the price. One would have to pay almost $1,500.00 to upgrade the base model with these Octo processors but lets debate, is it worth it.

Apple website has this page found at www.apple.com/creativesuite3 that talks how CS3 takes advantage of Intel processors, at the same time all the benchmarks posted in the Mac Pro page compare the old Power Mac G5 to the Intel line and CS2. Running Rosetta, the Intel machines fall behind in performance and after having CS3 beta running around for a couple months now, they didn’t even gave us a little taste of the advance technology this Octo processor supposedly has.

But lets be optimistic, after all Apple wouldn’t make a big deal of it if it wasn’t a cool deal. But, what about Final Cut Studio? Again the specs on the Mac Pro page compare the G5 against Intel Quads not Octos. So whats the deal? When encoding HDV both Xeon 2.66 and 3.0 behave the same, but, what about Octos? Logic Pro can take advantage of a small power difference between the Quad cores, no word on Octos. I know is too early, and I know I’m asking too much but I really don’t think that a little research before putting them out there would have hurt them.

Do yo shoot RAW? Well, Apples recommended system can cost you $4,904.00. Ok. Nevertheless, this machine is awesome, looks great, behaves like a “Tiger”, and trust me it roars. So I was thinking that maybe this is just the way Apple celebrates their 31st anniversary, the DRM issue is a publicity scheme. DRM does not affect me and the whole thing sounds like an excuse to start charging $1.29 for downloads. Whatever the case is I which I hit the lottery so that I can move to Cupertino, CA, just kidding.

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