A company sitting on over $130B in cash and who just posted record year-over-year sales and profits (over $13B) should be ashamed of themselves for not updating their flagship product. You can't tell me that Apple hasn't made a conscious decision to let this product die. Apple is such a large company and they can't update the Mac Pro to current industry specs for over two years? Something doesn't sound right...
What's with all this "Apple is killing off the Mac Pro" talk? Didn't the CEO of Apple say they've got something big for the line later in 2013? How does that translate to "killing it off"??
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.
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
Yeah... They actually used to have ADVERTS for the powermac g4
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.
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?
This makes it ever more urgent for Apple to release their Mac Pro 2013 soon!
Unfortunate for EU and Apple. It is difficult to imagine what could possibly accelerate delivery of an updated MP. It probably isn't this.
But I still like the MP and hope promises of a 2013 update are genuine.
Yeah because it was their best selling model back then. Today it's Air or MBP 13". But even for those they are not advertising much. I think times have changed.
When Apple withdrew from the pro video market the need for an OS X run pro box lessened considerable as many went Avid or Premier.
You don't need...
*cough*iPhone*cough*
I assume the schedule for these regulations would have been announced some time ago. It makes it even more ridiculous that Apple didn't launch a redesigned Mac Pro in 2012. I was all set to buy one.
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
Thanks for posting a link to, like, actual facts. Instead of the (usually) uninformed opinions that seem to be popular.
Not that this link really helps. Too many possibilities. But my guess is that it is a grounding issue, and that Apple decided to pull the product rather than redesign the MP for the few months that this current version seems to be have.
Can't be that big a problem since the EU isn't freezing sales, just freezing the importation of new inventory into the EU. Whatever is already in the EU can still be sold... so it's not a dangerous product. If Apple knew that the freeze was coming it's conceivable that they imported enough stock to keep their resellers stocked up until the new version of the MP is released.
Any computer that old probably is made using lead in the board or is going to fail RoHS --Restriction of the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment.
EU: , "These computers you are making aren't crappy enough".
Fix it oryou can't sell anymore here.
Something doesn't sound right...
It looks like it is some electrical safety standard. Mac Pro isn't a volume seller, but it still looks odd that they can't or don't want to get it up to standard.