Apple Building 2TB Solid State Drives for Next Mac Pro Release?

[MH01]

Forget the Mac Pros... where the hell is the update to the Thunderbolt display!?!?

Are you kiddin... All of apple computers on the same interface!!!! No way, if the mac pros get thunderbolt, apple will come up with something new ! Since mini display port I do not remember the whole range having the same interface.

On a serious note, you will need a video card with TB. To my knowledge none exist so if apple wants to sell monitors for mac pros they need to be mini display port.

This is the reason I still own a 2010 iMac, it allows me to display video from my pc via display port. The thunderbolt iMacs lost that ability.

 

[taptic]

FInally! Apple may have realized people use their computers to store stuff on and need memory to do so! Yay!

 

[Ingot]

I just got a tingle in my dingle.

I would like to think you are joking, but...

i did too.

 

[yusukeaoki]

If I buy that, I would also need to get a box to live in.

 

[aristotle]

Two terabytes is fantastic, but how's the battery life?

LOL Wait, you are serious? In case you are serious, the Mac pro is a workstation tower with Intel Xeon processors and ECC ram.

 

[Chabba]

Are you kiddin... All of apple computers on the same interface!!!! No way, if the mac pros get thunderbolt, apple will come up with something new ! Since mini display port I do not remember the whole range having the same interface.

On a serious note, you will need a video card with TB. To my knowledge none exist so if apple wants to sell monitors for mac pros they need to be mini display port.

This is the reason I still own a 2010 iMac, it allows me to display video from my pc via display port. The thunderbolt iMacs lost that ability.

Thunderbolt is DisplayPort + bus (like PCI).

 

[unibility]

Up to 8TB of SSD. What am I Bill Gates? Average man cannot afford this.

 

[twoodcc]

sounds good, just please release it this year

 

[Macrolido]

That would be great!

 

[AidenShaw]

2 TB SOLID STATE?? I can just imagine the price.

Ah well. Good to know they're keeping up on the development of the Mac Pro. Long live the Pro

Newegg today - 1.2 TB SSD for $3500. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227724

Just imagine a bigger one with the Apple Tax added....

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Any mac pro news to me is good news. But 2TB SSD's in the new mac pro sounds awesome.

This just got interesting!

Buit it will probably be SATA I at 1.5 Gbps....

 

[mdgm]

Up to 8TB of SSD. What am I Bill Gates? Average man cannot afford this.

The Mac Pro is not targeted at the average man.

 

[codefuns]

Sounds great, just have to sell your house to afford it...

 

[MisterKeeks]

Thunderbolt (at least 2)

Hopefully Intel will add Thunderbolt capabilities to the Xeon processors. I believe that's one of the main reasons there hasn't been a new release.

 

[MrDc2]

Well wait till they see the price get ready for a fresh wave of posts.

Lol srsly

 

[12dylan34]

Up to 8TB of SSD. What am I Bill Gates? Average man cannot afford this.

The Mac Pro isn't for the average man. It's for people and businesses that need intense computing power to bring in money.

a $10,000 Mac Pro isn't all that huge of an investment when your business is making $20,000 per 2-3 week job for broadcast motion graphics.

If it makes you feel better, I can't afford it just for myself either, though.

 

[tech4all]

What's a Mac Pro?

I think it's a computer for pros, but I'm not sure.

I just got a tingle in my dingle.

Getting a little racy in here.

I won't buy it.

Darn and here I was soooooooooo hoping you were...

Please stop questioning the intelligence of others.

You're not in a position to do so.

Are you in a position to tell others to stop questioning the intelligence of others?

 

[E.Lizardo]

Leave that for third party developement, Just release the Macpro

Read it again.The processors have not been released.Complain to Intel.

 

[itouch rulz]

Do you think it would make Safari snappier?

 

[AidenShaw]

Hopefully Intel will add Thunderbolt capabilities to the Xeon processors. I believe that's one of the main reasons there hasn't been a new release.

There are no "Thunderbolt capabilities" in the Core i? processors, so why would it need to be added to the Xeons?

Or are you saying that Xeons should have integrated GPUs? (I think that I just threw up in my mouth a little....)

It was a colossal mistake to embed DisplayPort into the T-Bolt design. Now, at least, people should be realizing what a mistake that was.

 

[biggest father1]

So let me get this straight, I can buy the low end model of a MacPro and upgrade everything over time like a custom PC right?

 

[jontech]

I'll skip the 2 tb SSD and hope for

USB 3
Thunderbolt (at least 2)
Ease to put in a SATA DVD/BD unit

My wish list that wont happen -
Smaller footprint
slight drop in price
third party "slot" units to go where disc drive in front go so that an SSD can be 'inserted' or some other 2.5 drive.
updated graphics cards that are not last generation etc.

Agreed except for the DVD part. I hope they remove the slot and lower the footprint. Externals are pretty small now

 

[Codyak]

So let me get this straight, I can buy the low end model of a MacPro and upgrade everything over time like a custom PC right?

With a few exceptions.

 

[palmharbor]

overkill

Given, Apple has decided that burning DVD's is passé. Why would anyone need two 2TB? Most people use their computer for email, internet, word processing and perhaps games...If you do not download and assemble mp4 or mov files to be burned or duplicate DVD's you don't need more than 500MB HD.
I would guess it will be so expensive, few people will be buying one.

 

[MattInOz]

It's probably just a 2TB fusion drive, maybe with a 512gb SSD as the flash part.

A 2TB SSD at apples prices would be like....$5,000

Wasn't there comments that Fusion could be applied to and SSD made of fast and slow NAND.

So maybe 2TB with +128GB fastest NAND and the rest slow cheap bulk FLASH which would still be much faster than a spinning disk at probably not such a premium.

 

[jontech]

So let me get this straight, I can buy the low end model of a MacPro and upgrade everything over time like a custom PC right?

except for the CPU's