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Apple Tells Reseller New Mac Pro Is Arriving in Spring 2013
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He did? Why?
I have 15TB right now. Will that fit in the mini?
The iMac graphics are soldiered to the board the MP's is not. Is it discrete yes is it separate form the MoBo no.
ill wait and see if this is apples "new" as in "the same old Mac Pro with a slightly improved CPU/RAM/Storage configuration like they tried to get past us last "update" or an actual Mac Pro with USB 3, Thunderbolt etc.
I'm open to innovative new designs mostly because my favorite Apple designs were at one time both new and innovative.
That said I hope the new Mac Pro looks just like the old one but includes USB3, eSATA 3 while retaining dual Ethernet and dual FW800 ports. There is just something about the Mac Pro's design that is timeless and without need for change.
To those who say that want a smaller, more compact Mac Pro I say if you don't have the space for a Mac Pro you probably don't really need a Mac Pro.
Save the smaller-yet-smaller devices for the mall rats tweeting about who got laid at last weekend's under-aged drinking party.
That said I hope the new Mac Pro looks just like the old one but includes USB3, eSATA 3 while retaining dual Ethernet and dual FW800 ports. There is just something about the Mac Pro's design that is timeless and without need for change.
To those who say that want a smaller, more compact Mac Pro I say if you don't have the space for a Mac Pro you probably don't really need a Mac Pro.
Save the smaller-yet-smaller devices for the mall rats tweeting about who got laid at last weekend's under-aged drinking party.
But if they are planning on nothing more than that, there's no reason at all they wouldn't have it ready in time for the regulation. With the stop in EU sales, the only things that make sense would be that they're going to eventually kill the model completely, or that they have another update coming but for whatever reason it won't be ready by the EU deadline.
Only 2?
I need two GPU cards, a proprietary encoder card, and a blackmagic video display card. Minimum for me would be 4X PCIe 16 gen 3 slots. Minimum.
Yeah!!! This made my day.
My ideal:
Small form factor a la the ill fated "G4 Cube"
- SATA III
- 2-3 internal HDD/SSD bays
- 2x PCIe slots
- Processor(s) - 1-2 processor configurations (Xeon or Ivy-Bridge EX processors for heavy lifting, or i7 for light needs)
- USB 3.0
- Thunderbolt ports (perhaps for additional non-PCIe graphics box)
- Of course RAM
Run a Thunderbolt cable to a workstation for display(s) and HID's, leave it stashed out of sight. Would lower costs, allow for low to high end configurations, upgradability/expandability, use of non-Apple displays and HID's, and smaller form factor would benefit shipping footprint and ease of use. Bring it.
I need two GPU cards, a proprietary encoder card, and a blackmagic video display card. Minimum for me would be 4X PCIe 16 gen 3 slots. Minimum.
Tim Cook also said 'late next year' and unless he means Apple's FY, that's a way past Spring. I'm also of the opinion that they wouldn't just release something with fan guards because they've had a long time to do that. So, perhaps something went right with the manufacturing process this time and they can be early.
This.
This years WWDC will be pro related.
Rumors of Streaming Radio.
A non-upgrade upgraded Apple TV.
From what I've been hearing a couple of new Codecs.
Intro to new WiFi standards.
Media content deals.
Apple will have a lot of new API's to work with developers on.
I can see a Pro WWDC with the Mac Pro being shown as the workstation to do all this new Pro stuff with.
And computers have been shown at WWDC before.
This year it might just be the Mac Pro.
/wishful thinking.
No fear, folks. I think the delay is because they got to a point in the incremental design and realized they needed to stop refining and redesign the whole thing from the ground up. Look at what else they've stopped doing: server racks. Artists may need something stronger in their machine, but plenty of artists I know are using servers in render farms, and none of those I've heard of are running Mac OS X these days. Servers aren't stand-alone units anymore, they have hot-swappable parts, and more than just the hard drive. Sure they cancelled the Xserve, but they sell a version of the Mac mini as a server: they aren't leaving the server market, but they know a single rack-mounted monolithic unit isn't an effective design in that market. It's no coincidence that their most popular reconfigurable machine is the one that's taking so long to get right. Apple has been pushing the use of XPC to Mac-store apps, which could enable massively parallel applications to take advantage of tightly integrated clusters of cores. They claim it's for rights escalation & separation, but the protocol itself is designed to make it really easy to effortlessly spawn another process remotely on dynamically available computing resources, each with its own memory. My prediction is: look for a Mac Pro that isn't a monolith anymore. Sure, they may actually put the same monolithic box around it, but the way new mac's get serviced, upgraded and "expanded" is going to be radically different.
All it would take to thrill me is a beefed up version of the Mac mini. If Apple offered a new low-end Mac Pro with:
3.4GHz quad-core i7
GeForce GTX 675MX with 1GB
Room for two 3.5" hard drives
Fusion Drive option
Ram up to 32GB
Two Thunderbolt ports
Four USB 3.0 ports
One Firewire 800 port
I'd buy that sucker in a heartbeat. I'd climb over the top of people in front of me to place my order.
But, I realize that any Mac Pro will also include at least two slots for upgrade cards. Unfortunately, adding additional cost for features that many potential Mac Pro buyers don't need or use.
Mark
3.4GHz quad-core i7
GeForce GTX 675MX with 1GB
Room for two 3.5" hard drives
Fusion Drive option
Ram up to 32GB
Two Thunderbolt ports
Four USB 3.0 ports
One Firewire 800 port
I'd buy that sucker in a heartbeat. I'd climb over the top of people in front of me to place my order.
But, I realize that any Mac Pro will also include at least two slots for upgrade cards. Unfortunately, adding additional cost for features that many potential Mac Pro buyers don't need or use.
Mark
It'll have to be a redesign to fit the new EU standards!
You mean, like a switch on the removable panel to shut off the fans?
later next year, not late next year...
http://www.macworld.com/article/1167247/cook_apple_planning_professional_mac_for_2013.html
Easter is traditionally the start of Spring in the US, and Labor Day (first Monday in September) is traditionally the start of Fall.
But they're not the ACTUAL DATES of Spring and Fall - those are based on the Equinoxes. Which means that if Apple releases the Mac Pro before June 22, they're on time. Most likely they'll introduce the Mac Pro at WWDC, which will be sometime in the first 3 weeks of June.
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Outwardly, the Mac Pro resembles the last version of the Power Mac G5, and has similar expansion capabilities. An Intel-based replacement for those machines had been expected for some time before the Pro was formally announced on August 7, 2006 at the annual Apple Worldwide Developer's Conference. The first Mac Pro was based on dual Dual-core Xeon Woodcrest processors. This was replaced by a dual Quad-core Xeon Clovertown model on April 4, 2007, and again on January 8, 2008 by a dual Quad-core Xeon Harpertown model.
Unless they decide to do something different this year. Date or content. It is Apple's event after all.
Thunderbolt peripherals are expensive and rare. They also don't have the full bandwidth for graphics cards.