As we reported it last
ihttp://www.hardmac.com/news/2007-09-19/#7217, Apple will open the first French Apple Store in Paris, not on the Champs Elysées as originally planned and expected, but in the famous Carrousel du Louvre located underneath the renowned Museum "Le Louvre".
Our information was confirmed today by a news released today by
Paris Addict. They found the information in a document released by the Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie de Paris and published last December (
immo_paris_commerces.pdf).
We can not reveal many details, but the Apple Store will feature a large area splitted over 2 floors.
A reader, Nicolas has just received his Mac Pro Octo 3 GHz fitted with a Radeon X2600 XT. He shares with us the results obtained with Cinebench R10:
We have redone he same test using a first generation - 4 core Mac Pro
Running with a single core at the same frequency, the new machine does better; with multiple core, it is almost exactly twice as good (due to twice the number of cores). Even though this last result seems mathematically trivial, it is not so - since the efficiency of each core decreases as one adds more cores. The Mac Pro 4 x 3 GHz has an efficiency of 0.7775 per core, while the 8 x 3 GHz losses relatively little with an efficiency of 0.72375.
These excellent results are due partly to the improvement of the CPU architecture but more so to the new architecture of the faster memory bus.
Note: as far as we know the software used for these tests has not been optimised for the SSE 4 instruction set.
Without official statement, Apple update the Apple Store webpage corresponding to the
GeForce 8800 GT.
It is now clearly stated that this card will only be compatible in PCI Express 2.0 enable Mac pro models, in other words the last models.
In other words, it is now clear, without a special GF8800 GT, previous Mac Pro will not be able to benefit from such last generation graphic card.
