Still using mine. My only problem with it is that I need to figure out how to upgrade macOS without the original SSD in place. Big Sur is no longer compatible with a lot of software.
Man I think besides the 2013 MP the only other Mac case I'd love to see them remake with AS is the G4 Cube. What a cool machine that was!I agree that the Mac Studio is the Apple Silicon version of the trashcan Mac Pro.
I did warranty hardware repairs at the time, and the trashcan was hands down the worst Mac repair experience up to that point. The most common issue was liquid damage. The owner would spill their drink near the Mac, which would suck it up through the bottom intake vent. The liquid would get pulled over the base board that connected the CPU to the GPUs, oxidizing all the connections. This ruined the 4 main boards of the system. Apple rated warranty repairs based on the number of parts used, causing the shop to lose money on every single trashcan repair.
All Macs with bottom air intakes (Studio and mini these days) should be elevated high enough off the surface to not suck in liquid. The G4 Cube was fantastic for that, literally floating several inches in the air on plexiglass. This was a solved problem 24 years ago.
I wonder when Apple’s $100 million market research report will finally, finally, finally figure out that customers loathe non-upgradeable storage and memory.
Apple launched the controversial "trashcan" Mac Pro eleven years ago today, introducing one of its most criticized designs that persisted through a period of widespread discontentment with the Mac lineup.
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The redesign took the Mac Pro in an entirely new direction, spearheaded by a polished aluminum cylindrical design that became unofficially dubbed the "trashcan" in the Mac community. All of the Mac Pro's components were mounted around a central thermal dissipation core, cooled by a single fan that pulled air from under the case, through the core, and out the top. The fan could spin more slowly than smaller fans and keep the Mac extremely quiet, even during intense operations.
Apple announced the radically redesigned Mac Pro at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in 2013. During the announcement, Apple's Phil Schiller infamously remarked "Can't innovate anymore, my ass." The comment was directed at critics who pointed at the previous Mac Pro's lack of updates and claimed Apple had largely abandoned its pro user base and was out of ideas.
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Phil Schiller unveiling the redesigned Mac Pro in 2013
Apple said that the new Mac Pro offered twice the overall performance of the previous generation while taking up less than one-eighth of the volume, thanks to its unified thermal core. The Mac Pro twinned Intel Xeon processors with dual AMD FirePro workstation GPUs, enabling it to deliver seven teraflops of computing power.
While the striking design was undoubtedly ambitious, users were unhappy with the way that almost all expansion had to be served externally by Thunderbolt 2 ports. Many professional users who were reliant on powerful hardware could not get past the Mac Pro's lack of internal slots to add graphics cards and memory.
The result was a device that was unable to adapt to changing hardware trends. Even Apple seemed unsure how to offer a meaningful hardware update for the Mac Pro; as recently as 2019, it was possible to buy a brand new trashcan Mac Pro from Apple, with no upgrades coming to the device during the preceding six years.
This led Apple to make a rare admission of the product's failure during a meeting with reporters in April 2017, explaining in detail why the device didn't succeed in the way it had hoped. In 2019, Apple's full mea culpa came in the form of yet another Mac Pro redesign, which took the machine back to a highly modular tower form factor with eight PCIe slots and three impeller fans.
Yet in many respects, what the 2013 Mac Pro set out to achieve—a small, powerful computer for professionals, with external expansion only—lives on and has been executed more effectively by the Mac Studio.
Article Link: Apple Launched the Controversial 'Trashcan' Mac Pro 11 Years Ago Today
Except some legacy software I'm running on Sierra won't run on Sequoia - hence keeping it on Sierra. 👍It’ll natively support Monterey. But throw opencore on it, and they run sequoia great.
Someone has the same idea:Man I think besides the 2013 MP the only other Mac case I'd love to see them remake with AS is the G4 Cube. What a cool machine that was!
Our Studio sits on top of our OWC Thunderbay 8, so no worries about any liquids being spilled under it. It's far too high up for that!
And then it started overheating and crashing constantly because the thermal design was inherently defective. I wonder if they ever patched the driver issues that caused it. The GPU's were too hot because they stuffed 2 of them in there.
They are below 300 on ebay all day, and I am this close to just going for it. Can I ask, how much of the modern feature set is gimped on these old machines? Air drop? iMessage? Hand-off? etc etc.I picked up the 12 core D700 model for $300 on Facebook marketplace. Took it apart and redid all the thermal paste. It’s a solid secondary machine and also the coolest Mac I own. I think it’s a really unique and aesthetically pleasing computer. Gives me joy to see it every time I walk into my office.
So was the G4 Cube, the granddad.2013 Mac Pro is the predecessor of the Mac Studio.
Apple should've continued selling the Mac Pro with 2012 form factor.
So was the G4 Cube, the granddad.
G4 Cube>2013 Mac Pro>Mac Studio
It’s a shame that design had to be retired because of the bad buzz, because it would’ve been such a cool look for the Mac Studio.This was a design that needed Apple silicon before Apple silicon existed. It was still form over function - but I remember being really excited about it until saw the price. And even then - if I had the need I would have bought one.
The design was retired because it didn’t work as intended for the target market, nor there were adequate components to update the computer because of the thermal envelope. The bad buzz, as you put it, was a consequence of the design not meeting the goals it was supposed to achieve.It’s a shame that design had to be retired because of the bad buzz, because it would’ve been such a cool look for the Mac Studio.