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Any new MacPro in the pipeline?

pale9 said:
i am in the market for a quad core macpro. just wondering if there were any rumors about impending new macpros coming soon....
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Hellhammer is right. The only viable possibility here is Apple putting out a 3.1~3.3GHz unit for an extra grand or whatever, if not a price drop on the 2.66 unit - I don't see either happening, right now.
 
thermodynamic said:
Hellhammer is right. The only viable possibility here is Apple putting out a 3.1~3.3GHz unit for an extra grand or whatever, if not a price drop on the 2.66 unit - I don't see either happening, right now.
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the mac pro is the one Apple computer I would buy right now...no rumors of any updates..Well, maybe the Air.
 
getting a quad core 2.66 from amazon today. price 2299, no tax, free shipping (with amazon prime). looks like a great deal. ordered 2x2gb rams from other world computer for about 100 bux, so in the end i will have 6gb and 1gb that i can sell.

2 questions: is there a built in microphone? built in speaker useable?
 
average of 7.7 months between updates... It's been 7 so it wouldn't surprise me if there was an update of sorts. Maybe a new graphics option and slight processor bump. Maybe small price changes for the extras but I don't see them lowering the price of either base model.

Would be nice if they added some SLi support or CrossFire... Not expecting that at all though as it would compete with the quadro in terms of price.

I've been advised to hold out for 'a few weeks' by one of apple's people in the uk. We'll see soon enough though. I'm expecting a November event with silent updates to the Pros.
 
tri3limited said:
average of 7.7 months between updates... It's been 7 so it wouldn't surprise me if there was an update of sorts. Maybe a new graphics option and slight processor bump. Maybe small price changes for the extras but I don't see them lowering the price of either base model.

Would be nice if they added some SLi support or CrossFire... Not expecting that at all though as it would compete with the quadro in terms of price.

I've been advised to hold out for 'a few weeks' by one of apple's people in the uk. We'll see soon enough though. I'm expecting a November event with silent updates to the Pros.
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Sorry but you clearly have no idea what you are talking about. It is an average of over 12 months between Mac Pro updates.

August 2006, January 2008 then the update at the beginning of the year.

If you're going by the buyer guide then ignore it. It is totally out of date and included updates to the PowerMac's. As Hellhammer said it will be March April next year a the earliest. Probably a higher chance of WWDC10.
 
Whatever happened to the days of the Powermac where the tower started at $1600, Quicksilver:( Apple needs another Quicksilver..mid grade tower etc. Oh well.
 
Dont Hurt Me said:
Whatever happened to the days of the Powermac where the tower started at $1600, Quicksilver:( Apple needs another Quicksilver..mid grade tower etc. Oh well.
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They already have a mid-grate tower. The Mac Pro classifies in that category perfectly - even though the 2009's are priced considerably above "mid-grade". The octad 2.93 is even on the high side of mid-grade.
 
Tesselator said:
They already have a mid-grate tower. The Mac Pro classifies in that category perfectly - even though the 2009's are priced considerably above "mid-grade". The octad 2.93 is even on the high side of mid-grade.
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Well put. :) And they're crippled to boot (DIMM slots, PCB traces for the HDD bays data transfer, ICH10R is throttled,...).:eek: :p
 
I'm interested b/c iras periodically checking the refurb site and there was always a few models.

Now that I'm ready to buy, I've only seen 1 model over the last 5 days.

I don't have official stats, but Ive noticed quantities have gone down on that site before updates. I would expect maybe a processor upgrade.
 
Buy a 2,26 GHz Octad and a pair of W5590s and do the upgrade yourself. You will likely get it cheaper or same price as the 2,93 GHz from Apple.
 
Based on the current rumors, there is a possibility that Apple will again get first crack at the new Intel processors. Good news is that the new Mac Pros may be available before Q2. Bad news is that once again Apple may price the units based on the initial scarcity/exclusivity of the processors and leave their prices unjustifiably high once costs come down like they have with the current models.
 
Bartman01 said:
Bad news is that once again Apple may price the units based on the initial scarcity/exclusivity of the processors and leave their prices unjustifiably high once costs come down like they have with the current models.
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The macpros cost have spiraled upwards so dramatically,that I think apple is going to resort to the marketing stunts and make the lineup consist of 4core,6core and 12 core models.
That way they could advertize that "Now Macpros starting from 2299$!!!" and leaving out that 6/12 cores will be 4 & 6k+...
And they will tamper the 4 core so that you cant upgrade it later either...
 
Mac Pro to get exclusive on six-core, 32nm Xeons?
updated 11:00 pm EDT, Wed October 14, 2009
Apple may get early use of Gulftown Xeon

Apple may have a temporary exclusive on Intel's fastest workstation Xeons early next year, a purported leak argues tonight. An unnamed source says Apple is readying a Mac Pro based on the Xeon version of Intel's Gulftown six-core architecture and that the Mac builder would have a short exclusive for the processors, launching its own workstations in the winter while everyone else would have to wait until the spring. What configurations would ship aren't known by the MacBidouille tipster.

It's believed the mainboard for Gulftown systems would have added feature support, however, including 10-gigabit Ethernet (versus one gigabit today) and official support for 8GB and even 16GB memory sticks. A Mac Pro with the eight slots of the present-day design would support up to 128GB of RAM versus just 32GB using 4GB sticks.

Gulftown depends on Intel's 32 nanometer Westmere process to increase the complexity of the processor without necessarily affecting its size or power output. In addition to the extra two cores beyond most current Xeons, the Xeon design will support Hyperthreading and therefore address as many as 12 program threads at once. The amount of Level 2 cache should jump from 8MB to 12MB to reflect the extra amount of data moving between the added cores.

While unconfirmed, Apple has had a history of using Intel's latest Xeons ahead of others, such as exclusive access to a 3.06GHz Xeon for several weeks before competitors could use it.
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http://www.electronista.com/articles/09/10/14/apple.may.get.early.use.of.gulftown.xeon/
 
We know how to fit the W3390 CPUs to the 2009 Mac Pro. The only way to do it is actually done by destroying an automatic coupling of the heat sink instrumentation. This will definitely invalidate Apple care. So at least that claim is bogus. I would even think that a CPU exchange would invalidate Apple care.
 
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