Episode 15 The New Kid On The Block

Intro

This week on the show we have……….

  • Stefan Langford
  • Mike Yaroshinsky
  • Mike Burgess - the new kid… introductions…

QuickFire News

Apple Releases 8 Core Mac Pros, and cuts price of Cinema Displays
LSW2 near release, demo by the time you hear this
LSW1 UB patch
Europa Universalis III, X³ Reunion (Ciderised), And More Coming To Macs
BSG:Behind the Red Line demo released - FreeSpace 2 based mod work in progress
AoE3 Demo released
SW:EAW in stock at MGS

News Features

Apple Releases 8 Core Mac Pros

Sporting two 3.0Ghz Quad-Core Intel Xeon "Clovertown" processors, the 8-core build's hefty power comes with a price to match - $3,997.00 for the base model.

Some of the tech specs include:

Two 3.0GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon 5300 series processors
Intel Core microarchitecture Intel Xeon
8MB of L2 cache per processor (16MB total; each pair of cores shares 4MB)
128-bit SSE3 vector engine
64-bit data paths and registers
1.33GHz, 64-bit dual independent frontside buses
Apple also continues to offer the quad-core Mac Pro models with no price changes. Buyers can opt for two Dual-Core Intel Xeon "Woodcrest" processors in 2, 2.66, or 3GHz flavors.

Discuss new busy release schedule

Lego Star Wars 2 out in the next week or so, CMR is eternally just around the corner.
DEFCON nearing release - already into release candidates.
EU3, X3 and others announced. - X3 is the 3rd cider based game to be announced.
Yet Aspyr and MacSoft are both rather quiet. aside from the sims…

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