Until you water cooling breaks and burn out your processor and puts coolest all over you internal machine parts.
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Apple Envisioned New Mac Pro's 'Cheese Grater' Design Years Ago
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Until you water cooling breaks and burn out your processor and puts coolest all over you internal machine parts.
Highly unlikely that even Thunderbolt 3 has the bandwidth to push 20 million pixels @ 120Hz.
Not sure I completely get what this MPX stuff REALLY is. The motherboard has these PCI slots, right? PCI GPUs go in there (normally). Yes there are needs to be able to feed a lot of power to run said cards. So what you describe sounds like you put the PCI GPU into the MPX, then that goes into... the PCI slots on the motherboard? What am I missing? So said modules have their own power connectors? Is that in lieu of providing them on the motherboard... as in justifying buying something else. Or does one come with it but ya gotta buy a second f you want >2 GPUs?
Storage... yeah, I get NVMe. I get NVMe going through the PCI bus via adapters into said PIC bus connectors. That SEEMS like it ain't possible here... there seems to be 2 NVMe slots right on the motherboard. SOMEHOW the ones they show look like nothing I have ever seen, so I suspect we're talking you can ONLY get them from the fruit. Which is why the machine is limited to 4T... far as I know, the biggest NVMe is 2T.
So where is swapping in industry standard parts? It kinda sounds like any "expandability" comes from their OWN stuff... as we KNOW the kind of prices they charge for supplying what normally is industry standard stuff (like 600 HDDs that were the same as what was on the market for 200). Kinda seems that "expandability" means BTO.
AND what about the rumored transition to ARM chips away from Intel? COULD it be that one can simply drop an ARM chip to upgrade the CPU? I'd find that kinda hard to believe, but I could also be wrong. Think about kitting out one of these machines for 25-30 grand only to find out 2 years later, it ain't the hottest thing anymore...
And why do i need to move or access that much any longer? It does not have a internal DVD or Blu-ray player, if i need access to a USB port I have that on my monitor or a hub setting on my desk?
Now that would be cool...Attach a couple of gauges a valve and a spigot or two and you will have the perfect Steampunk computer. Ugh.
Been using them for years! https://eshop.macsales.com/ they make things possible....... great company! never had a problem with their products!
I have heard of no such thing in the $2k price range. Any examples? Provide a link?
"Apple Envisioned New Mac Pro's 'Cheese Grater' Design Years Ago"
Ah, now this makes perfect sense. Apple became bored with the old cheese grater design, so the trash can was an exercise in self gratification ("Can't innovate my a$$"). So the trash can ended up being a distraction from a reasonable evolution of the obvious design. They just needed to do something different and the trash can was it. Now Apple has to go "over the top" to prove something to themselves.
Instead of a reasonable update to the old cheese grater design (which could have contained the new internals) they had to add numerous and expensive style features to maintain their ego.
So in summary: the extra cost you will pay for this machine helps maintain Apple's ego. And possibly your own if you need to drink that flavor-aid. How stupid.
Ah, now this makes perfect sense. Apple became bored with the old cheese grater design, so the trash can was an exercise in self gratification ("Can't innovate my a$$"). So the trash can ended up being a distraction from a reasonable evolution of the obvious design. They just needed to do something different and the trash can was it. Now Apple has to go "over the top" to prove something to themselves.
Instead of a reasonable update to the old cheese grater design (which could have contained the new internals) they had to add numerous and expensive style features to maintain their ego.
So in summary: the extra cost you will pay for this machine helps maintain Apple's ego. And possibly your own if you need to drink that flavor-aid. How stupid.
My feelings are that the monitors are for industry pro users, so obviously not catered to the majority of the world.
This is not a 10k watch scenario. It’s a buy if you need the ultimate monitor, if you don’t, but something else. I don’t see them positioning this as a consumer good.
Happy they made something for the pros. I think the meaning of “pro” has gotten lost.
If there was, it is most likely a 15in monitor not 32in........
https://www.asus.com/ca-en/Monitors/ROG-SWIFT-PG27UQ/
Granted it's 4k @ 27 inches, it's basically the big daddy of all monitors... it's got everything, including 144hz refresh rate. For 2 grand, not 6.... WITH A STAND! LOL @ Apple
Both ASUS and Acer have worked in close conjunction with NVIDIA to come out with Gsync monitors. Granted, they're 4K resolution as opposed to 6K, but other than that they all employ the same principle technologies: FALD, LCD, HDR1000, and DCI-P3. They retail for around $2K, and are set to be refreshed with 576 zone FALD (the same as this Apple display) this fall, as reported out of Computex 2019.
Just like you do not see a semi trucks on the freeway, no one uses those big trucks.........
I think that the new imac will take design cues from that new screen hopefully getting rid of the chin.
I think the iMac system is a great system! my brother owns one and loves it, he is on his second model and helped his kids get threw high school. And with his new model with a Intel i9 it kicks butt processing!
Well, Apple mentioned reference monitors as the standard that they were shooting for in the new Pro Display XDR monitor, not the gaming market... As for the stand, sure you COULD spend a grand on it, OR, go with the VESA mount adapter for $199.
True. On the occasion someone's gonna drop in a hard drive, RAM, video card, etc. seems you'd want it up on a desk. Slide the cover off and you're good to go. I think it's a decent design idea. And the al-yoo-minium case doubling as a heat sink is kinda cool.
That's a terrible example. Those are extremely specialized tires for an extremely specialized use.
It's just a stand. It holds a monitor. It doesn't matter that some people won't care about the price. It's still just a stand.