Overnight Scare and Badge Pickup Suprise
Monday, January 14, 2008 at 8:28PM Following on from my extended 25 hour plus journey and arrival meal, I finally hit the sack and fell into a deep, deep sleep. Figured if I could sleep through until at least 9am, that should stand me in good stead until tomorrow. All was well until 2:30am when the phone rang with a call from home. Temporary automotive crisis! Why do these things happen when I'm away? All sorted and managed to get back to sleep until the alloted 9am - phew! Thanks to the power of Twitter, I discovered the lines to pick up the badges where horrendous so decided to leave picking them up for an hour or two. Leisurely got myself together and had a hearty breakfast on the way to Moscone. The queues had died down by the time I got there and my user conference badge was duly picked up. No printed schedules for the conference available - huh! Went upstairs to pick up my presenters badge for Friday. Given my badge, a ticket to the MacBlast party ($40), a ticket to the Cirque Du mac Party and a ticket to the Mac Life party - result! The icing on the cake was that I was told the pass will get me priority access into the Keynote - double result! The dillema is now due I still queue up at 4am and meet up with the people I'd promised to meet, or just saunter along at 7:15am. What do you think?
Well I thought they'd be out before Christmas but Apple decided to release them the week after! Slap bang in the middle of CES and just before Macworld - a class act!
Based on the new Intel 45nm quad-core Stoakley (Penryn) processors at up to 3.2ghz, these new machines are smoking fast. Add in 12MB L2 cache per processor and 1600MHz dual independent frontside buses, Apple have created a new system architecture to boost performance even further stating up to 2x faster than the previous standard-configuration Mac Pro (well as it's now 8 core as standard and the previous was 4-core....)
And yes, I'll be rattling the piggy bank and hopefully stumping up the cash for one of these beauties just after Macworld (unless priorities change based on what's released at Macworld!)
At the time of this post the Apple UK store is till down so we don't know what the damage in terms of cost will be but you can check out the specs 
In addition to the Mac Pro update, Apple have also made significant updates to the 