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...
Funny that they still use Premiere or Avid on Mac boxes though. Not to mention, FCPX is Apple's best selling NLE to date as far as I know. So they didn't withdraw from anything. They just lost some users and gained tons more. And all of those new users are benefitting from the core count of MP's. I don't think you understand how annoying it'd be to edit native RED on a MacBook Air. iMacs are quite fast yeah, but still they don't beat a 12 Core MP and they don't have PCI-e benefits which NLE users love. Even if you have a few person NLE team working on a small project, you'd still benefit from having MP's.
Apple may simply be getting a totally new "pro" Mac model ready to go and it will ship when it's ready.
I would lean this way myself. It makes me chuckle to think of all the "MacMini is dead" threads. This is no different.
My company spent our June 2012 (MP-that-never-was) money on SCREAMING 32-AMD-core/64BDDR3 Linux workstations.......with funds to spare.
The new Mac Pro refresh had better be nothing short of spectacular..... :/
Yes, I understand all that. Sorry. But the new FCPX users don't need a $4000 MP... I'm using it on a iMac! (BTW take a look at benchmarks that show the high end iMac beats the low end MPs).
But true, honest pros, not wannabes making corporate and wedding videos, using Avid and Premiere don't NEED a Mac, even if they prefer it. A PC or Avid workstation will do fine, if not better right now. That is my point. Not too many bona fide pros use FCPX.
So this regulation is about fan blades turning off when the computer is opened?
What kind of idiot opens a computer when it's on? If you do that, you deserve to lose your fingers. Another regulation protecting the brain dead.
Yes, I understand all that. Sorry. But the new FCPX users don't need a $4000 MP... I'm using it on a iMac! (BTW take a look at benchmarks that show the high end iMac beats the low end MPs).
But true, honest pros, not wannabes making corporate and wedding videos, using Avid and Premiere don't NEED a Mac, even if they prefer it. A PC or Avid workstation will do fine, if not better right now. That is my point. Not too many bona fide pros use FCPX.
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.)
Not that anyone in their right mind would be buying this now anyway...
The Mac Pro hasn't been Apple's "Flagship Product" for a long long time, unfortunately
Thats because the last update they did was only a CPU one.I'm still a little surprised that when they did the last "upgrade"
You realize this is something Apple has no control over right? This is a government regulation.
What kind of idiot opens a computer when it's on?
With any luck, there will be a massively upgraded, new Mac Pro soon and it will be in a 4U mountable case, making it a much delayed replacement for Xserve.
Now, because I actually believe this, I think I will go out in my back yard and look for bigfoot and magical unicorns.