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Apple Offers Developers a Closer Look at the New Mac Pro

See, it's aluminum. Happy now, people who don't read the description before posting?

This thing is really cool. I'm not a pro user, but Apple really innovated on this one. I'm still not seeing how this looks like a trash can.
 
R2, is that you?

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Jokes aside, the power inside such a small design really is impressive.
 
I think it will come in silver color as well......

I noticed this in the video. Looks like this guy scored a couple silver models!! :p:D

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ipedro said:
Expect a third party transparent case. I know I wouldn't want to hide those beautiful internals.
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Except the outer metal case may be part of the heat management. I know the talk is all about the thermal core, but heat radiating out of the outside won't hurt.
 
I kinda like it and then I don't. It's nothing more than a mini on steroids. I'd rather have a bigger Mac with space for upgrades. What about upgrades for GPUs and possibly CPUs? I'm looking forward to the teardown once this reaches the streets.
 
Pretty and radical !

This is definitely "Think Different".

I also hope that this thing is user serviceable and not another consumer grade sealed case.
 
Mac Pro X

Look! It's the Mac Pro X! Just what everyone wanted - a smaller, lighter stationary computer that is only expandable via an expensive cable that no one supports.

We need tools, not shiny cases. I need expandability, not a table cluttered in expensive cables that don't plug into anything. I don't need a smaller, lighter stationary computer. I need more places to put hard drives, video cards and ram as I can afford it. I need a disk drive. Apple is killing me. For what I needed, wanted and waited patiently for so long for - I got not one single thing I can use. I understand trying to be innovative if they've found a new way to make an old tool better - but changing things we've all come to know, love and need into something useless and unrecognizable just for the sake of change is exasperating (see; Final Cut X). Sure, it's pretty. It'll look great under a table every time I accidentally kick it or get my foot tangled up in one of the 20 cables laying in a rat's nest next to it. Looking forward to the clutter of hard drive caddies, a RedRocket card enclosure, the bare LG BluRay writer tethered via a USB cable, the adapter array full of FireWire ports to access cameras and drives containing legacy projects…oh, wait, never mind. It also just occurred to me - how am I going to mount that thing in a rack??? How is any of this going to attach to shared storage when I'm gonna have to wait 2 years for a 3rd party to invent an impossibly expensive Fibre channel adapter? Seriously, does anyone there actually use these products when they're designing them or listen to customers - or do they look at the suggestion cards and do the opposite???

Not that any of this really matters because without a working version of Final Cut, I don't need one anyway. So, thanks for saving me a bunch of money I guess? 3 - 4K monitors. For who??? The high school students using FCPX won't be able to afford it, nor will they need that much real-estate to edit YouTube videos.

God help Apple this is a disaster. They do know 'Pro' is short for 'professional' right?

I'm so depressed. I waited for 5 years to get nothing I can use or wanted.
 
Central heat core, does this remind you of something...?
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Very clever, Apple. Out of the box indeed
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I still think this design would benefit a Mac Mini
where users are more space constrained, not Mac Pro.
This design may dissipate heat better than the boxy design
but the lack of expendability internally should piss a lot of
creative professionals.

I would buy this for the clever design ...but do I need
dual GPU & 12 cores?
 
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Add some dots and viola - my own Dalek

Add some dots and viola - my own Dalek
 

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Too bad

It's a beautiful case and a beautiful machine, but saying "all exandability will be external" is really unfortunate.

I have had my mac pro for 5 years, i've swapped out video cards, slapped new hard drives and SSD's into it. It's a beast, but i can code for scientific computing with the cuda enabled cards i've put in there, I started off with less ram and added more as I needed it and it got cheaper.

This to me is like a mac mini on steroids. You can add peripherals to it via thunderbolt, it has a very powerful gpu (Ati so no CUDA, just openCL) No space for hard drives. Direct PCI access of the SSD's. It's gorgeous and in no way what I think a mac pro is. In 2 years when the GPU's are average to obsolete, you seem stuck there (I'd love it if I was wrong and you could upgrade, please say so).

I think it's pretty, i'd love to look at it, but I will probably be replacing my mac pro with a mac mini if this is all there is to it.

And sure, it's smaller and neater looking, but when you add all the hard drives back in through thunderbolt ports, it's going to be looking a lot messier than just getting a single mac pro tower.

ALTHOUGH if apple came out with a larger station for all those things and you can just drop this tube into it as a computing core, it would LITERALLY BLOW MY MIND. It would literally blow my mind so much I wouldn't even be able to use the word "literally" correctly.
 
Even a Mac Mini can take 2 hard drives. It would be nice if there were options for fitting some off-the-shelf drives inside.

It might look pretty, but won't be quite so nice when there are lots of cables running out of it.
 
Jetson said:
Pretty and radical!
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However people may want to dismiss it as a trash can, it is quite the feat of engineering to stuff 12 Xeon cores + Dual GPU Workstation Graphics into such a small container. This makes total sense and is the direction they should be going. Design tweaks are sure to follow.

Customers will answer with their purchase orders or wallets. If they don't buy them, it will go the way of the G4 / G5 Cube and the NeXT cube before it.

It reminds me of the weaponized form of "black goo" from Prometheus. I want one (but I can't see myself actually buying one unless I hit the lottery or go nuts.)

To not sound like a jet engine taking off would be great, too. Perhaps Dyson will sue them for the design, we'll see.

But yes, definitely DO NOT place anything on top of your Late 2013 Mac Pro. You've been warned.
 
This is fantastical! :D

Thunderbolt 2 will be plenty fast enough for external expansion (no more f/n cards, I'm happy about this!).

Anyone who wants to complain can go get a big 'ole PC tower, stay old school, and quit wining!
 
It's for sure a designer piece ... It will looks nice on my desk and I would have fun watching it; as a non-Pro. :)

But as soon you need to start enhancing it you have mainly/only TB. That means lots of cable around the desk. I think that will negative influence the design/appearance. :confused:

Ah, and no optical disk as it looks like (not a big surprise) just another cable
 
jmoore5196 said:
I had a G4 Cube "back in the day," and that's the first thing that popped into my mind whilst watching the keynote today. I was planning to upgrade my '11 MBP next year; I think the Pro is the direction I'll head. I have a Thunderbolt display; the new Pro seems the obvious choice assuming it is priced at or below a high-spec retina MBP.

I guess we'll all wait and see!
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I don't think this is for you... Also, the Mac Pro will most definitely NOT be priced less than a high-end rMBP.
 
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