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Apple to Halt Mac Pro Sales in Europe Effective March 1 Over Regulatory Requirements
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Not sure where your anger is coming from. The MP product withdrawal is due to an EU regulation. Are you now blaming Apple for regulations all companies much adhere to?
Apple could have the MP re-certified under the new requirement but why when it's only a few months from becoming EOL anyway. I suspect anyone in the respective countries who needs the current MP has one already so where is the fire exactly?
Also since Apple has now given notice anyone who does want this aging creature has a month to get one... maybe even longer if resellers stock up since they are allowed to sell existing stock even after March 1.
You realize this is because apple has not updated their outdated product to keep up with regulations?
New Mac Pros will be...
A bunch of Mac Minis stitched together into one Mac Pro box.
Miniclusterinnabox Pro!
A bunch of Mac Minis stitched together into one Mac Pro box.
Miniclusterinnabox Pro!
Here's a brief list of what's covered by the amendment...
http://www.certassist.ca/certassist...1_UL_60950-1_Second_Edition,_Amendment_1.html
The Mac Pro hasn't been Apple's "Flagship Product" for a long long time, unfortunately
What I understood is that European regulations require IT equipment to conform with the UL standards in order to be sold. It could be that the Mac Pro does not meet the updated standard anymore to get that certificate and rather than updating the Mac Pro, Apple chose to withdraw the product entirely.
You can buy and download the Regulation and Amendments here
http://www.techstreet.com/cgi-bin/detail?doc_no=iec|60950_1_amd_1_ed_2_0_b_2009;product_id=1834067
http://www.techstreet.com/cgi-bin/detail?doc_no=iec|60950_1_amd_1_ed_2_0_b_2009;product_id=1834067
Surely you jest. Apple doesn't need a face saver. It's killed off lines before with impunity, and I don't think an EU regulation is going to cause it to pull the MP everywhere else. That's silly. EU isn't even a huge market for MP.
But the MP as we know it is already a dead animal. Apple has pretty much said as much. There will be a new pro machine this year (Tim Cook said so last year) but it likely will be much more streamlined than the current MP box. Would not be shocked of the optical bays go buy, buy, and two of the four HDD bays are shrunk down for SDD.
I'm glad you aren't running a company
. Apple is in business to maximize profits for shareholders. They have teams of people calculating cost vs probable returns in order to maximize profits. It's obvious to most people that the Mac Pro is way down on the priority list since it doesn't bring in the profits that their other products do. I still believe they will have a major update to the Mac Pro sometime this year. Unfortunately, it's not soon enough to meet the EU deadline.
The Mac Pro hasn't been Apple's "Flagship Product" for a long long time, unfortunately
I'd say not since the G4/G5's really, the MacPro has staggered since the intel transition in my opinion.
And the power users in the creativity realm have not really been getting the love, FCPX (which is really more FCeXpress, if you ask me.)
I am one of the people effected by the Java block. It was a good thing. Java is very compromised, with public exploits that let others own your computer and all the data on it. Apple just needs to come up with a system for giving notification to users for THIS TYPE of security patch.
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Killing off the Xserve or the 17 inch MBP will not be the same thing as killing off the MP. Many companies rely on the computing power of the MP and right now, there are no OS X based alternatives.
Unfortunately, this hasn't been their 'flagship' product for years. If it doesn't have an 'i' in its name, then it's just an afterthought these days.
Oops, looks like other folks beat me to it...
You don't need a Mac Pro to develop software. A MacBookAir can easily handle that.
My guess is that this particular "regulation" states that a computer manufacturer cannot continue selling a product advertised as "new" when its internal components are technologically outdated / obsolete by two or more years.
Sure sounds like the Mac Pro to me!!!
My spidey senses are telling me more and more that I'm going to have to end up building a DP Hack Pro be because Apple is going to let it fade into obscurity in favor of iGadgetry.
I think that particular requirement states that a computer cannot be sold in the EU if it's ridiculously out of date.
Let's hope that Apple brings out an updated version soon that adheres to the rules. I've been waiting for ages to buy one, it would be such a waste if it were to be removed forever from the lineup.