Thought you may be interested:
Meet R2D2, probably the most common joke about this new machine. That, and that it looks like a trash can.
joking aside, i was impressed with the specs:
1 processor slot (Intel 12core proc)
2 video cards (AMD oddly enough, both pulling at least 2 gig of ram)
4 ram slots (I'm behind on how much one slot can hold, but lests say 32-60 gig of ram depending on how much you want to spend).
Upon inspection, It seems like these three boards (the main board, and 2 graphics boards) are arranged in a sort of triangle, with a backplane port in there somewhere. The only cooling is the center of the piece, which uses one fan to cool the entire gadget. the cpu, and video cards are all facing in towards the center, and it is assumed the bottom of the unit contains the power supply.
I also noticed after inspection, there are no monitor ports on the darn thing. I was confused until i remembered that apple has their new "Thunderbolt" port, which is a fancy way of saying this port will do anything with the right 30$ dongle connected to it. :P there are 6 thunderbolt ports, so i will assume you can probably hook up 2-4 monitors at least if you really wanted to.
Finally, Apple is introducing a new type of flash hard drive storage. this is essentially a card connected to a PCI-E slot. This card is supposed to be about 10 times as fast as a standard 7200rpm basic hard drive. They didn't bother to mention how large the storage card is (64gig-512gig my guess), but who knows?
in any case, this whole strange contraption is about 6 inches wide, and about 9inches tall, allowing for a beautiful look, but rather limited upgrade capability.
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