I was just thinking this morning about Apple, and their unspoken agreement with creative digital media professionals, and yes, there is one. Steve (Jobs) makes the offer to you of a free new Apple computer every year. Plus, he’ll pay you a little cash to take it.
Many perceive that Apple purposely drives software development such that the computer that was screaming fast last year is barely chugging through jobs this year. Now that Apple supplies us with most of the software we use every day, they have more control over this planned obsolescence than ever before.
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Exit Power Mac, enter Mac Pro
"Well, today, the Power Mac is going to fade into history," said Jobs. Apple VP of worldwide sales and marketing Phil Schiller joined Jobs on stage to introduce its replacement.
Schiller introduced the Intel Xeon-based Mac Pro. The processors that power the Mac Pro are Intel’s "Woodcrest" design — dual core processors at speeds up to 3GHz.
Schiller said they have 4MB shared Level 2 caches and 128-bit vector engines that replace the "Velocity Engines" found in Power Mac G5 systems. And they’re 64-bit.
"These are
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