Eight-Core Mac Pro Finally Arrives
After months of speculation, Apple finally released an 8-core Mac Pro today. It employs two quad-core Xeon’s clocked at 3 Gigahertz. The price is high — $1500 more than the standard system with two dual-core chips — about $4K.
The big question is how much real-world speed increase you get with this baby.
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Splice Now 
April 4, 2007 at 7:09 pm
I’m thinking FCP6 will be catered to the octo-core. Well i’m hoping it is, off to Vegas in 2 weeks to find out! You know of any Avid events worth checking out, Steve? I’m already signed up for the Walter Murch thing on the FCP front…
April 5, 2007 at 6:57 am
Yea, FCP is probably going to do a lot with this machine. I’m wondering if the same will be true with the Media Composer. It’s been written for Mac-on-Intel so it makes sense that the extra cores would be used.
The only Avid event I know about is a big party they’re hosting at the “The Joint” at the Hard Rock Hotel on April 15 from 7 to 11. But it’s now sold out.
http://www.avid.com/events/nab2007usergroup.asp