Apple only devotes a depressing 4.5% of Apple Retail Store floorspace to the Mac Pro

It’s not looking too good for the Pros… After receiving a screen shot of the shared computers at the Cambridge Apple Store network from faithful Macenstein reader iPhelim, I was sort of taken aback by how outnumbered the Mac Pros seemed to be. Out of the 25 computers listed, only 2 were Mac Pros. That’s [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Apple only devotes a depressing 4.5% of Apple Retail Store floorspace to the Mac Pro", url: "http://macenstein.com/default/archives/1410" });

From the Lab: Mac Pro options put to the test

The current Mac Pro may be the most customizable machine to ever come out of Cupertino. But what do each of those options add in terms of performance? Macworld Lab has configured a Mac Pro to test tweaks to memory, the hard drive, and the graphics card to figure out what effect each upgrade has on the Mac Pro’s speed.

Overclocking Tool for the Mac Pro

ZDNet.de has posted a new tool called ZDNet Clock Tool 1.0 for Mac Pro which allows you to overclock your Mac Pro. The process of overclocking uses software to increase your computer's processor speed and bus speed, potentially leading to higher per...

ZDNet Mac Pro and Xserve overclocking tool

One area that the Mac has long lagged behind its PC counterparts is in custom tuning, particularly overclocking. With the Intel Macs this has naturally started to change, though the toolset for overclocking in OS X has been rather barebones. So it's interesting to see that the German division of ZDNet has released the ZDNet Clock tool for OS X.Using the ZDNet Clock tool Mac Pro and Xserve owners (and those only) can boost the processor, front side bus, and memory frequency resulting in a not insignificant "free" performance gain. It should be noted that overclocking puts a strain on the hardware and should be used with caution as it's certainly possible to damage your Mac. Furthermore, there are several side effects in OS X including distorted system time and problems when waking from sleep (the overclocking is disabled on wake). Nonetheless, for those of you out there lucky enough to have a Mac Pro (or Xserve) and crazy enough to push your hardware to the edge may want to have a look.The ZDNet Clock tool is a free download from ZDNet (the link is in German, click the Jetzt herunterladen button to start the download) and requires a Mac Pro or Xserve running Leopard.[via AppleInsider]Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

WTF is up with those Mac Pros?

Is it just me, or is there something odd about the way Apple’s Mac Pro 1 and 2 are showing up at the Cambridge Apple Store network? Thanks to faithful Macenstein reader iPhelim for the pic! SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "WTF is up with those Mac Pros?", url: "http://macenstein.com/default/archives/1400" });

Virginia Tech's Mac Pro supercomputer to crack 29 teraflops

A switch to newer Intel-based Apple Mac Pro workstations for an upcoming rekindling of Virginia Tech's supercomputer efforts will more than double the performance to as much as 29 teraflops and will once again put a Mac cluster in the limelight -- th...