Can someone tell me what this means?

[Zane H. Healy]

At 1:10 PM +0100 8/12/07, Stroller wrote:
>To be fair, you probably fancy a MacPro with EIGHT cores. I know I do!!

Ditto, though I will probably go for a 2 dual core system rather than 
the dual quad core when the time comes.  That $1500 price jump is a 
bit hard to stomach, and even a 4-core system will blow my current 
dual 2Ghz G5 tower away.  Besides I'll need a nice chunk of change to 
beef up the RAM.

>From whom else could you get an 8-core desktop workstation?
>I doubt that it'd be very much cheaper!

I don't know what a 8-core desktop from anyone else would cost (I'm 
not even sure anyone offers something like it), however, I do know 
that a laptop from Dell comperable to the top of the line Mac Book 
Pro was about $600US more last November/December when I spec'd them 
out for someone.

>When I open a Mac I feel the same sensation of quality workmanship 
>that I do with old Unix workstations like SGIs & Suns. The screws in 
>the base of iMacs

I feel it is actually higher at least on the Pro systems than on some 
of the more modern Sun hardware I've seen.

		Zane


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