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Apple Announces New Mac Pros With Up to 12 Cores, SSD Options
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Fair price ?
I tried to create what I believe is a comparable setup over at Dell and the price comes to $6,400. So maybe $5,000 is a deal after all.
* 1TB drive
* 3GB memory
* Dual 6-core @ 2.93 Ghz
I have no idea what the equivalent video card is for a 5770.
I tried to create what I believe is a comparable setup over at Dell and the price comes to $6,400. So maybe $5,000 is a deal after all.
* 1TB drive
* 3GB memory
* Dual 6-core @ 2.93 Ghz
I have no idea what the equivalent video card is for a 5770.
Exciting!
But institutional rules at my university restrict computer buys to <$5000, so no 12-core for me. Damn. I should never have waited.
But institutional rules at my university restrict computer buys to <$5000, so no 12-core for me. Damn. I should never have waited.
sad
Why are there so many dumb ass people posting these days? **** about case designs as being a deal breaker. No USB 3? No FW 1600? Buy a ****ing expansion card.
Why are there so many dumb ass people posting these days? **** about case designs as being a deal breaker. No USB 3? No FW 1600? Buy a ****ing expansion card.
I do use them and it might have been "brilliant" 7 years ago, it's not now. It's heavy, restrictive, cumbersome and stilted with limited motherboard expansion.
As for comparing consumer and pro lines ... one clearly gets Apple's attention and the other doesn't and in the professional's case they are the ones who want to see cutting edge hardware and innovation because they are the ones who use it.
CompactFlash? SD? It's pathetic that you still have to use USB to transfer images from a camera when a Mac Mini and iMac has a slot for it.
More pathetic is that based on past announcements this refresh is going to be the only one the Pro gets this year and will have to carry the line to next summer.
A couple quick questions for you smart people 
1) What kind of user would benefit from the 12-core over the 6-core? Does the OS handle multithreading well enough now that pretty much everyone would notice a difference?
2) If I bought one of these, could I just swap its system drive with the one in my 2006 Mac Pro and go? (I've had a terrible time with Migration Assistant missing things).
Thanks!
1) What kind of user would benefit from the 12-core over the 6-core? Does the OS handle multithreading well enough now that pretty much everyone would notice a difference?
2) If I bought one of these, could I just swap its system drive with the one in my 2006 Mac Pro and go? (I've had a terrible time with Migration Assistant missing things).
Thanks!
No not a troll, just dutch. I first looked at the US site where it says August, and later the dutch site where it says coming soon. I guess we get a little screwed down here. August still is gonna mean the end of August though..
Is the Hackintosh still a better option?
Trying to decide whether to build a Hackintosh or wait until August for the Mac Pro to be available. Right now, we can build a Hackintosh with higher performance and at a lower cost than the just announced Mac Pro. Am I right?
I think that with the Hackintosh, we can at least put more memory and Nvidia card(s) in it. The single-processor Mac Pro systems can only take up to 16GB.
Trying to decide whether to build a Hackintosh or wait until August for the Mac Pro to be available. Right now, we can build a Hackintosh with higher performance and at a lower cost than the just announced Mac Pro. Am I right?
I think that with the Hackintosh, we can at least put more memory and Nvidia card(s) in it. The single-processor Mac Pro systems can only take up to 16GB.
Forget the Mac Pro! Apple just introduced the Apple Battery Charger!
http://www.apple.com/battery-charger/
More then enough batteries to power 6 death stars! lol
http://www.apple.com/battery-charger/
More then enough batteries to power 6 death stars! lol
I think I sadly have to agreed.
While the case is fine for what it is, the extremely long wait of redesigning it is a sign that Apple is not moving or moving at snail speed when it comes to the Pro line, there is just not much interest there.
Another reflection of that is the ACD upgrades. The 30" display still the same and no upgrades.
I think is official, Apple is now all about iPhones and iPads. The Mac now is a distant third.
I didn't miss anything. See the section titled "Pricing & Availability" in Apple's press release which is the first link in the MacRumors article. I quoted the very first line from that section.
It doesn't.
Nope, looks like it's an upgrade to the quad so four ram slots.
http://www.apple.com/macpro/specs.html
If that's not modest I don't know what is. Those are the kinds of things that you expect an upgrade to deliver at the same price. Since technology prices tend to drop over time.
Please make sure to inform yourself before mis-informing others:
http://www.apple.com/macpro/features/processor.html
I use a Boxx 8400 w/ Windows 7 for Maya. But thats as far as Ill go with Windows. We have over 2 dozen Mac Pro's here that do all Graphics/Motion/NLE/DAW work.
Looking forward to 12-cores
Whats so bad about not having NVidia cards for 3D modeling? (Excuse my ignorance anything I model isn't very high end )
)The OS doesn't matter as much as the apps used, and there are definitely some that can use as many cores as you have.
I wouldn't swap system drives.
Exactly. You can build an i7 machine with 6 ram slots, top of the line components for about a grand. And it will blow the doors off the base mac "pro".
Same here. The improvements over previous models don't justify the price bump, considering it has been one and half year gap.
I'll have to check the price of the 6-core before switching to Windows though.