Mac Pro, Mac OS X Virtual Desktops Announced at WWDC

haym37 writes "Of the many announcements yet to come at WWDC, the first is the announcement of the Mac Pro. The Mac Pro contains two Intel Xeons, up to 3 GHz, and is supposed to be 1.6x to 2.1x the speed of the PowerMac G5 quad. It can hold up to 2 TB of internal storage and up to 16 GB of memory. The graphics card can be up to a Radeon x1900 or an FX4500. The case will be the same as the PowerMac." MacRumors.com is providing running coverage from the floor (Note: "[U]pdates will be automatically inserted at the top of the updates section. Do not reload manually."), including another announcement that OS X will include virtual desktops. What a great idea!

Damn...

[Anonymous Coward]

looks like Vista is gonna be delayed another 4 months now.

Re:My keynote thoughts so far...

[toQDuj]

"Web Clip looks killer. "

Well, if you have 62 online comics you want to keep track with like me, dashboard really isn't up to the task. I keep a bookmark auto-open folder with all my online comics; at the press of a button, all 62 of them load in tabs in the Safari window.

B.

Re:I'm a mac fanboy but

[amliebsch]

It's not much of a time machine if it can't go into the future and retrieve the documents I haven't written yet.

Ooooo I want one! I want one!

[Stormwatch]

I want-- oh, wait.

*checks wallet*

Uh, I want a Mac mini. With fries and a chocolate milkshake, please.

Apple'r making the machines SGI should have been..

[torpor]

.. making, 2 years ago.

Re:I'm a mac fanboy but

[powerlord]

It's not much of a time machine if it can't go into the future and retrieve the documents I haven't written yet.

Expect that bug to be fixed in the next major upgrade 11.0 ... just as soon as they get that Einstein-Rosen-Padolsky [wikipedia.org] bridge software working properly.

Re: Copying Scorecard

[dch24]

Look, I know I haven't taken the time to research this properly, but I thought you'd like to read this:

Xerox Parc: The GUI, +1 Brilliant
Apple II: The Usable GUI on a home computer, +1 Informative
Apple II: Hierarchical File System, +1 Interesting
Apple II: 3.5" Floppy, +1 My Favorite
MS-DOS: Directories, -1 Redundant
Macintosh: QuickTime, +1 Interesting
Macintosh: 44khz 16-bit sound, +1 Funny
Microsoft: Windows, -1 Offtopic
Microsoft: MPC standard (attempt at multimedia), -1 Overrated
Macintosh: SCSI, +1 Fast
Macintosh: 68030 multitasking, +1 Useful
Microsoft: Windows 3.1, -1 Redundant
Macintosh: Apple Menu, +1 Informative
Microsoft: Windows 95 Start Menu, -1 Redundant
Microsoft: Windows 95 Recycle Bin, -1 Offtopic
Macintosh: PowerPC, changing processor architectures, +1 Gutsy
Microsoft: Windows NT Alpha, -1 Unsupported
... (skip ahead, I'm in a hurry) ...
Macintosh: OS X, +1 Drool
Microsoft: Windows 2000, -1 Bugfix
Macintosh: BSD utilities included, and the OpenDarwin project, +1 Insightful
Microsoft: TCP/IP stack, -1 Stolen
Macintosh: Spotlight, +1 Useful
Microsoft: Windows Vista, -1 Nothing To See Here, Move Along

Okay, and the preliminary scores are:
Xerox Parc: +1
Apple: +12
Microsoft: -10

And for the record, I don't own a Mac. (*shakes wallet, hears two nickels rub together*)

Does somebody want to reply to this with a more comprehensive and accurate list? I've gotta go watch "The Pirates of Silicon Valley."

Re:While I'm impressed with what Apple is offering

[soft_guy]

For me since I graduated 2001 it makes most sience) In college you wore very libral clothings and in the Corprate enviroment you are more town down

I think you should consider returning to school (and perhaps slapping the teacher who was supposed to have taught you to spell.)

Re:I'm a mac fanboy but

[gb506]

The Time Machine beta just told me that fourteen /.ers would complain here today that they can build a comparable PC for $14.93 less than the Mac Pro.

Let's check back in a week and see how it does!

Definitely a keynote for developers...

[payndz]

...because there was very little for users. Backdrops in iChat? Spaces? I'd definitely call myself a Mac fan, but there was nothing here that made me go 'Wow, I must have Leopard for that feature!'

I didn't quite get this quote about Time Machine, either: "If your hard drive dies, you can buy a new hard drive, put it in your machine, and be right back where you were." So Time Machine backs up your HDD to the ether? ;)

Seriously, Steve, how about something basic like improving the damn Finder, which is still very nearly as clunky and annoying as it was in 10.0? Or is that something you're saving for the next keynote that you don't want MS to photocopy?

Re:Did I read correctly?

[milkman_matt]

But hey, dual 5150s for $2500?

Ugh, when I saw that I could just picture them selling it through an electronics liquidator... "5150s, why that's just INSANE!!" ...sorry for that, heh.

a political joke?

[k2enemy]

Thought this was an interesting feature and funny comment from the new Xcode page [apple.com]:

Project Snapshots
Record the state of your project anytime, and restore it instantly. Experiment with new features without spending time or brain cells committing them to a source control system. Like saving a game in Civilization 4, Xcode 3.0 lets you go back in time without repercussions. If only reality worked this way at the Pentagon...

Re:My keynote thoughts so far...

[dfghjk]

on versioning file systems, here ya go: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versioning_file_syste m [wikipedia.org]

very old idea and there are products today that do it. thank God we have Apple to invent it again for the very first time!

Re:My keynote thoughts so far...

[nytes]

uck you ad your advice! It's the worst idea, ever!

I mapped the '' ad '' keys to Expose and ow everytime I type something with a '' or a '' i it all my reakig widows get rearraged.

ow I eed to go back ad restore my settigs. I hope I have a backup ile aroud here somewhere.