Getting Mac Pro at next revision or January...buy cheap RAM now or wait???

[BillMac]

So, any chance the RAM specs will change at the next Rev or are we most likely just looking at speed boosts? OWC 2x2GB for $175? Freakin-A nuts!!

[Bernie]

If it has that new super woop de do processor, it will probably have different ram. If it does not have the new processor, I will wait until it does. I have waited this long.

http://blogs.intel.com/technology/2007/04/penryn.html

[BillMac]

damn - that doesn't make my decision any easier!!!

[IronMac]

I'd wait..you never know what's going to come out.

[Ted King]

When AnandTech compared a Penryn system to a Barcelona system they used FB-DIMMS in the Penryn system:

http://www.anandtech.com/IT/showdoc.aspx?i=3099&p=5

I suspect that means the Penryn's will require FB-DIMMS or that at least FB-DIMMS will be preferable. Either way I suspect that means Apple will be using FB-DIMMS in their Penryn Mac Pros. (The article doesn't say anything about the DIMMS being ECC like the current Mac Pros.) The DIMMS used in the Penryn test system were 800Mhz, compared to the 667Mhz used in current Mac Pros. So... IF the Apple Penryn systems require FB-DIMMS and IF the FB-DIMMS must be 800Mhz to work correctly, then DIMMS you would buy for the current Mac Pro would not work in a future Penryn system. Don't know it that helps, though.

[jdc]

pfft silly macpro ram

one of the main reasons i dumped my G5 towers for new iMacs