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Who thinks new Mac Pro on Monday? Poll
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Well they announced it, i now wish i could still buy the OLD model in the UK so i could get a model thats actually expandable and upgradable,
This one just looks like a Dustbin with a couple of mac minis in it.
This one just looks like a Dustbin with a couple of mac minis in it.
Only one CPU. Looks like a garbage can.
HACKINT0SH HERE I COME!!!!!
And I doubt that "dual GPU" will ever be upgradeable.
I think apple just tripled PC workstation sales with that announcement, in a years time they will probably use poor sales to finally pull the plug like they did on xserve
"So cool, we're gonna go a little over the top and give it a grand introduction."
translated: "it ain't ready yet..."
translated: "it ain't ready yet..."
I think the problem is poor sales of the Mac Pro in the first place. It obviously wasn't even worth updating in 2012 or continuing European sales. It's just insignificant from a profit perspective, so they have to try something new or can it.
"So cool, we're gonna go a little over the top and give it a grand introduction."
translated: "it ain't ready yet..."
I think that was obvious?
The poor sales rest entirely on Apple's shoulders. They let it languish with no significant updates since 2010. They could have gone with dual Sandy-bridge Xeons but chose not to.
Once quad-core iMacs came out sales dropped a lot, you can see it in the average price per desktop sold and a few other numbers that have come out. These systems also last a long time, look at how many still use 2006 models. The Mac Pro as it was is counter-intuitive to Apple's product philosophies going forward. I doubt they sold more than 2,000 units a week in 2010, that's nothing to Apple. It is a change in the market sadly.
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Plenty of cheaper options with more choice than those too. Have you looked at Maingear, Puget Systems, AVADirect, Thinkmate, Lenovo, Dell also?
Seems like Apple created this to kill two birds with one stone:
Bird 1: fulfill Cook's "promise" to professional users that an update was coming
Bird 2: Make said update so unpalatable to professional users that sales will finally justify killing the Mac Pro for GOOD.
Bird 1: fulfill Cook's "promise" to professional users that an update was coming
Bird 2: Make said update so unpalatable to professional users that sales will finally justify killing the Mac Pro for GOOD.
So if 4 TB ports is a bonehead design... how about 6?
I think this discussion has been overtaken by events.