New Mac Pro and MacOS 10.5 announced
While we have been at the ESRI Plenary, Steve Jobs took stage up north and introduced a couple of little things. I am pretty excited about the new Mac Pro which is based on the new Core 2 Duo chips including the high-end dual chip (4 cores total) option. Check out Engadget’s cover for details on MacOS 10.5…it looks pretty good.
Update: My bad, there is only a dual-chip option…no single processors for the Mac Pro
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The new Mac Pros don’t have Core 2 Duos but Xeons. The Xeon is based on Core 2 Duo architecture, but is more advanced.
Thanks for pointing that out. I still haven’t had a chance to really look into the details, but I am excited about the potential of dual-booting on a quad-core machine…or even just using a virtual XP machine within MacOS.
I’m stuck on macs like white on rice.
I am in the market for a Mac Pro or a MacBook Pro, as I am taking an entry-level (graduate) GIS course that uses ArcGIS. I can see myself utilizing ArcGIS as a research tool to aid the development of my thesis. Of course, ArcGIS does not run on Mac OS Anything. Not wanting to have two machines to do my homework, I’m getting ready to trade up.
As part of my research, I have found that while you can run WinXP on the Xeon-based Mac Pro via the use of Boot Camp, Parallels has not, as of yet, released a product that will run WinXP in a virtualized environment on the Mac Pro. They’re working on it, but it’s not out yet.
My understanding is that Parallels provides an environment that makes WinXP scream within Mac OS X on an iMac and MBP, so I’m truly foaming at the mouth to see what Parallels will do on the Mac Pro.
There is apparently a WINE based virtualization package available now for the MacPro (I can’t remember the name) that will allow Windows software to run with OS X, but I am also excited about VMWare for Mac. VMWare offers great/stable virtualization on both Linux and Windows already, so I think their option will be a good offering.