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[MacRumors : Mac News and Rumors] According to Apple's official specs, the Quad-Core Mac Pros only support up to 2GB modules in its 4 memory slots resulting in a maximum installed memory of only 8GB. This finding by OWC means the maximum installed memory in these new machines is at least 16GB.

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[Mac|Life News RSS Feed] Quad-Core Mac Pros to Support 16GB Memory Expansion | Mac|Life: Apple specifies that the Quad-Core Mac Pros only support up to 2GB memory sticks in either of its four memory slots, which suggests that the limit is 8GB. OWC is offering the ability to increase that limit to 16GB.

[Tech Universe] Tech Universe : Weblog: Plus, they're the ones who proved that the single Quad-Core Mac Pros can support 4GB modules of RAM (Apple says they support only 2GB). FYI, the 8-core system can support 16GB, no problem.

[Apple Bloog] Apple Bloog » Blog Archive » Quad-Core Nehalem Mac Pros Support ...: Other World Computing has begun selling 4GB SDRAM memory modules for the Quad-Core Nehlaem Mac Pros that were introduced in March. A reader emailed OWC and confirmed that 4GB modules had been successfully tested on the Quad-Core Mac Pros.

[LastJediMaster] Mac Pro Quad Core Can Support 16GB Of Ram? - Digital Media Online ...: It looks like the new Mac Pro with a single Quad-Core chip (4 processors total) can support up to 16GB of RAM, albeit unofficially. Read the story at MacRumors.com.

[Macworld UK Reviews] Mac Pro Quad-Core/2.66GHz review (2009 edition) - Mac - Macworld UK: The Mac Pro still has four internal cable-free hard-drive slots, using a sliding tray to attach the drives directly to the motherboard. Now, though, the large plastic piece holding the fan near the front of the Mac Pro is much smaller, giving your fingers more room to grip the hard-drive sleds.

[t-break: Technology @ Its Fastest] New Apple Mac Pro launches in the Middle East | t-break ...: The new Mac Pro includes Intel Xeon processors running at speeds up to 2.93 GHz, each with an integrated memory controller with three channels of 1066 MHz DDR3 ECC memory that delivers up to 2.4 times the memory bandwidth while cutting memory latency up to 40 percent.** Every Mac Pro comes standard with the NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 with 512MB of GDDR3 memory, a high-performance graphics card with nearly three times greater performance when compared to the previous generation system.*** An optional ATI Radeon HD 4870 is available for even more performance. With both a Mini DisplayPort and DVI port, the new Mac Pro provides out-of-the-box support for the 24-inch Apple LED Cinema Display, the 30-inch Apple Cinema HD Display, or other DVI based displays.

[@Work] The 8-Core Mac Pro Rocks for Graphics Work - @Work: (We were unable to run our 3DMark 06 benchmark on it due to an incompatibility.) It actually did better in many tests under Windows than under Mac OS X (Leopard). This is because certain applications such as the Mac version of Photoshop CS4 can take advantage of only part (3.5GB out of 6GB, in this case) of the system's memory.

[Apple, iPhone, iPod, Mac, Apple News] Quad-Core and Eight-Core Mac Pros (2009 editions) | Apple, iPhone ...: Although you do not know by looking at the new round of Apple's Mac Pro has just received a major overhaul. The two models of a new tower with processor and.

[Site Check - Web Site Advice] Site Check - Web Site Advice » Blog Archive » Essential Mac Software: Today, I received my new Mac Pro and I’m about to move all software from my aging PowerMac G5 to this new machine. As I’d like to make a clean install of everything, I’m downloading all the latest versions of the software I use regularly.

[Crave: The gadget blog] Mac Pro 3D test scores revisited | Crave - CNET: Also to the Mac Pro's credit, its gaming profile improves considerably in Vista via Boot Camp compared with what we saw in OS X. What we want to make crystal clear, however, is that with two quad-core Nehalem-based Intel chips and a well-regarded 512MB ATI Radeon HD4870 graphics card, the Mac Pro might sound tempting as a serious gaming system.

[The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)] Some thoughts on the new Microsoft ads: After pricing out a Mac OS X compatible computer that has an Intel 3.0GHz Quad-core CPU, nVidia GeForce 9800 GT, 8GB of DDR3 RAM, 1TB hard drive, 5 optical drive bays, 5 hard drive bays, 7 PCI-X slots, DVD burner, Gigabit Ethernet, etc., it was less than half the price of the low-end 4-core Mac Pro. The computer case isn't as "pretty" as the aluminum Mac Pro case, but considering that they would both be hidden under my desk it really doesn't make any difference.

[CNET Blogs] The $999 PC that out-gunned the Mac Pro | Crave - CNET: Gateway has a good gaming/business desktop that is only 2000 dollars (a drop in the bucket for everything that was included, less than HALF of what the parts in it would cost if I bought them and built the computer msyelf) and a good laptop gaming computer for 1200 dollars, that the stuff in it should cost about 700 dollars more than the computer costs.

[Mega WAREZ Blog] GeekBench 2.1.2 keygen key serial carck patch download free ...: Whether you’re running Geekbench on a single-core Pentium, a quad-core Mac Pro, or a sixteen-core Sun server, Geekbench is able to measure the performance of all the processor cores in your system. Every processor benchmark is multi-threaded and multi-core aware to show you the true potential of your computer.

[Photography Blog - News] New Apple Mac Pro | PhotographyBLOG: The new Mac Pro includes Intel Xeon processors running at speeds up to 2.93 GHz, each with an integrated memory controller with three channels of 1066 MHz DDR3 ECC memory that delivers up to 2.4 times the memory bandwidth while cutting memory latency up to 40 percent.** Every Mac Pro comes standard with the NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 with 512MB of GDDR3 memory, a high-performance graphics card with nearly three times greater performance when compared to the previous generation system.*** An optional ATI Radeon HD 4870 is available for even more performance. With both a Mini DisplayPort and DVI port, the new Mac Pro provides out-of-the-box support for the 24-inch Apple LED Cinema Display, the 30-inch Apple Cinema HD Display, or other DVI based displays.

[KIDTECHGURU-The Young Technology Guru] KIDTECHGURUKIDTECHGURU » Blog Archive » Intel’s Xeon 3500, 5500 ...: If you’ve got the newest Mac Pro, however, then you’re already using the new quad-core CPUs, but for everyone else, they’re now being sold en masse to manufacturers at a price ranging from $188 to $1600 for the Xeon 5500 and $284 to .

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