8 core mac pro 2008 vs mods#

As always for me it's the process not the product. I think that's why I like futzing with the PowerPC's they aren't silly fast and they take a bit of effort to make them usable in the modern age. I know things are much better now but the 'ain't that cool' factor is gone for me. We used to have al kinds of cool different connectors now not so much.

8 core mac pro 2008 vs mods#

Overclocking took actual HW mods now it's a simple as changing a number in the BIOS/EFI.

Computers are obscenely fast now and making them obscenely faster is kinda boring. I remember back in the day but it seems to me less exciting now than it did when I was a kid. I was in and out during my time in the Army. I stayed pretty in touch until I went to OSU in '94 and stayed out of touch until '00. Starting in 1988 my dad (a shop teacher) began converting shop class to tech class at his school the transition was complete in 1989 when we spent the better part of 3 weeks assembling 20 or so 486DX 33's. My/The families first computer was a IIe then a IIc then we got a 256sx 12 not long after that I built a cyrix 386dx 16. I've seen the progression of computers since the late 80's, so this is not a 'surprise' for me, but the fact that what we used to do REQUIRED desktop computers can now be done on a device that is 3 pounds and includes a screen is just fantastic. This is why Apple has been slow to adapt the Mac Pro as they think computers such as the iMac and Mac Mini are fast enough for desktop uses. The point is/was that, regardless if mobile devices are behind desktop computers, it's the fact that the idea of a 'mobile workstation' is becoming truer and truer and closing the gap of having a desktop and mobile device. If you remember when the G4 and Pentium 4 were competing, the computer industry was stalling when AMD came into play, then Intel went to the drawing board and completely changed things.I'm not even talking about the movement in the smart phone arena, which I appreciate, but don't really care about, but the mobile arena has a direct connection with what is happening with the CPU/GPU industry. Never before that was the transition of technology that quick. You guys might shrug at the fact that we're moving at the speed of light in terms of faster computational devices, but I think the last 3-4 years have been amazing as far as the speed of processors and advancements. A mobile device is more of a 'transitional' device for me, but it's amazing that I can start work on a laptop when I'm traveling and push my projects on the desktop when I get back. Haswell is on the path to do that.ĭon't get me wrong, for what I do, I don't see ever going to only a laptop for work. Intel will definitely make 6-8 Core (+ HyperThreading) a reality on mobile computers a reality within the next year or two.