E5 Xeon’s officially launched

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Frank Gothmann] “Well, in case there are no new MacPros, HPs has just announced its E5 Xeon based Z820.
6 PCIe slots, five of them Gen3 plus one legacy PCI, USB3 built in, 16 memory slots that can hold up to 512 GB of Ram.”

Does it ship with OSX?

[Jeremy Garchow]

“Expected ship April 2012”

[Andrew Richards]

AnandTech has Cinebench numbers on the 2660.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/5553/the-xeon-e52600-dual-sandybridge-for-servers/10

Best,
Andy

[John Pale]

[Jeremy Garchow] “Does it ship with OSX?”

It just might…all it would take is a willingness to license to HP.

You know I don’t think they dropped “Mac” from Mac OSX just to stick an “i” in front of it in the future.

[Jeremy Garchow]

Even the lower clock speeds are faster than the previous version (?) higher clock speeds.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[John Pale] “You know I don’t think they dropped “Mac” from Mac OSX just to stick an “i” in front of it in the future.”

As many problems that would “solve”, and as optimistic I try to be about all of this, I would be very shocked if this happened.

Except for a few brief stints, Apple has always controlled their hardware environment pretty tightly.

I’m asking becuase I don’t know, but what would be the advantage to license OSX?

It can’t be about the money as they probably don’t need that particular revenue stream and the support system that would create, but is it about the money? Putting OSX in the hands of more people? What’s the advantage there?

This would also mean you could run OSX on portables, a segment where Apple does very well.

I don’t know, it would make our Pro lives easier, but it’d make everyone else’s lives more difficult and Apple would have to give up major amounts of control.

Or maybe I’m being too closed minded? I’d love to hear hypothetical advantages to OS licensing.

[Andrew Richards]

There are none for Apple. It simply won’t happen. OS X is what sells Macs, which is where the money is. Apple sells the total experience. It just won’t happen.

Best,
Andy

[Moody Glasgow]

That would be a nice upgrade for my Flame…. 8 cores and 16 GB ram seem so small now…

moody glasgow
smoke/flame
http://www.thereelthinginc.com

[John Pale]

Fair enough…..

But if it keeps a facility an all Mac shop….often a post house or facility will also have MacBook Pros, iMacs, etc. in addition to their MacPros….and spares Apple having to build an unprofitable line of machines..they might consider it. If fact, I am sure they are, at least looking at it.

They get a licensing fee from HP…the video/film pros get a pro workstation running OSX, and Apple doesn’t have to build, sell and support machines that don’t make them much money.

I don’t think this will be like the old Power Computing, UMAX clones of old. This will be strictly controlled by EFI. Only, high end workstation and server configurations available.

Again…they dropped “Mac” for a reason. I don’t buy that it has anything to do with iOS.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[John Pale] “I don’t think this will be like the old Power Computing, UMAX clones of old. This will be strictly controlled by EFI. Only, high end workstation and server configurations available.”

It’s a valid point, John. It would surely be great for people like us.

Jeremy