Mac Pro: Seymour Cray Would Have Approved | Monday Note

Some 30-year Mac perspectives from Jean-Louis Gassée

"At 7 teraflops, the new Pro’s performance specs are impressive…but what’s even more impressive is how all that computing power is stuffed into such a small package without everything melting down. Look inside the new Mac Pro and you’ll find a Xeon processor, twin AMD FirePro graphics engines, main memory, a solid-state “drive”, driven by 450W of maximum electric power… and all cooled by a single fan. The previous Mac Pro version, at only 2 teraflops, needed eight blowers to keep its GPU happy."

Mac Pro: Seymour Cray Would Have Approved | Monday Note