I found myself waiting for Apple to do the right thing and release a Mac based on the Core i7. Steve didn’t need another Benz that badly. My desktop tests showed that Penryn generally yielded a 0 - 10% performance increase over Conroe and I wasn’t about to spend $3K for 10%.
8 CORE MAC PRO 2009 HD VIDEO UPGRADE
I stayed away from the Harpertown upgrade simply because it was a lot of money for a moderate increase in performance. While you could stick Clovertown into the first generation Mac Pros, you couldn’t upgrade them to Harpertown without hardware modifications to the system (don’t ask me what they are :).). That was then, this is now.Īpple released a newer Mac Pro with quad-core Clovertown parts (65nm Kentsfield equivalent), then once more with Harpertown (45nm Penryn equivalent). You’ll remember that I was quite happy with Conroe when it launched in 2006, so by extension I was quite happy with my Mac Pro. Woodcrest was the server version of Conroe, the heart of the original Core 2 Duo. In it are the same two 3.0GHz dual-core Woodcrest based Xeons that I upgraded it with for part 3 of my Mac Pro coverage. It may look modern, but this is actually the same Mac Pro I reviewed back in 2006. The processor itself isn’t overly expensive, it’s the motherboard that really puts it over the top but if you have the means, I highly recommend picking one up. In the months since that review went live I’ve had the benefit of using the i7 a lot. Sure, it was fast, but it wasn’t that much faster than a speedy Core 2 Quad. If you read my review of the i7 you may have left the review feeling slightly underwhelmed by the processor. Both our SSD and GPU testbeds use Intel’s new Core i7 processor. In my line of work, I tend to get access to a lot of very fast hardware.
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