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| From | Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.sys.mac.system |
| Subject | Re: [NEWS] Mac Pro CPUs can be replaced |
| Date | 2013-12-29 04:23 +0000 |
| Organization | People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates |
| Message-ID | <bi9mdhFflh8U4@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
| References | <281220131917065273%YourName@YourISP.com> <52be9923$0$22399$c3e8da3$f6268168@news.astraweb.com> <291220130949322552%YourName@YourISP.com> <52bf6066$0$9657$c3e8da3$aae71a0a@news.astraweb.com> |
On 2013-12-28, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote: > On 13-12-28 15:49, Your Name wrote: > >> All Apple's other computers use soldered parts and yet are still "Build >> to Order" customisable, so I doubt that is the reason. > > The iMac and laptops are mass produced with educated guesses on demand > for each soldered config. With such high volumes they can afford to > have different configs mass produced. > > With the MacPro being low volume, they probbaly don't have enough > information to predict demand for each config so it becomes most cost > effective to put a socket in and configured on-demand. > > (And it is also possible that for higher end CPUs, sockets are standard, > does anyone know ?) More blind speculation from the peanut gallery... -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR
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[NEWS] Mac Pro CPUs can be replaced Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2013-12-28 19:17 +1300
Re: [NEWS] Mac Pro CPUs can be replaced JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2013-12-28 04:25 -0500
Re: [NEWS] Mac Pro CPUs can be replaced Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2013-12-29 09:49 +1300
Re: [NEWS] Mac Pro CPUs can be replaced JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2013-12-28 18:36 -0500
Re: [NEWS] Mac Pro CPUs can be replaced Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2013-12-29 04:23 +0000
Re: [NEWS] Mac Pro CPUs can be replaced JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2013-12-29 01:23 -0500
Re: [NEWS] Mac Pro CPUs can be replaced Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-12-30 04:32 +0000
Re: [NEWS] Mac Pro CPUs can be replaced nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-12-30 00:30 -0500
Re: [NEWS] Mac Pro CPUs can be replaced Julian Vrieslander <MY_FIRST_NAME@MY_LAST_NAME.com> - 2013-12-31 15:32 -0800
Re: [NEWS] Mac Pro CPUs can be replaced Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-01-01 00:05 +0000
Re: [NEWS] Mac Pro CPUs can be replaced JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2013-12-31 19:35 -0500
Re: [NEWS] Mac Pro CPUs can be replaced Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-01-01 13:45 +1300
Re: [NEWS] Mac Pro CPUs can be replaced JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2013-12-31 21:24 -0500
Re: [NEWS] Mac Pro CPUs can be replaced JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2013-12-31 21:33 -0500
Re: [NEWS] Mac Pro CPUs can be replaced dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2014-01-01 21:07 +1300
Re: [NEWS] Mac Pro CPUs can be replaced JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2014-01-01 17:43 -0500
Re: [NEWS] Mac Pro CPUs can be replaced dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2014-01-02 22:48 +1300
Re: [NEWS] Mac Pro CPUs can be replaced Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-01-02 20:20 +0000
Re: [NEWS] Mac Pro CPUs can be replaced Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-01-01 09:31 +0000
Re: [NEWS] Mac Pro CPUs can be replaced Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-01-01 11:59 +0000
Re: [NEWS] Mac Pro CPUs can be replaced Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2013-12-31 19:48 -0700
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