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Apple Offers Minor Processor Bump to Mac Pro Line, No Thunderbolt

How the frack can they call these "Professional" when they can't even be bothered to upgrade the motherboard to Ivy Bridge with USB 3.0? Apple isn't even trying. They don't even reduce the cost of the thing even when it's YEARS out of date. This is precisely why I've harped about COMPETITION on the hardware front all these years.

If the other big hardware manufacturers were allowed to install OSX on their PCs, you wouldn't see this kind of crap. Apple would either concede the market share to mid-range and high-range tower PCs running OSX or they'd actually have to compete and offer actual real useful upgrades in a timely fashion not a fracking JOKE that they will then use as an excuse to dump the line ("See? They're not selling!"). Yeah no kidding. When the iMac is more powerful than the Mac Pro there's something REALLY wrong.
 
RalfTheDog said:
AAPL share price is starting to crash.
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Good. They deserve it.

I believe we should spit back in their faces. Pros were force multipliers for Apple, now Apple will lose that halo effect.

Content creators can use the airwaves to tell the world that Apple just isn't cool anymore.
 
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Come here Apple, you had been very good today with ur presentation and all but you just had to be a BAD Apple at the end!!

Bad Apple! Bad Apple!!

Now go to your Room, and don't come out till you fix the "Mac Pro"

:mad:
 
hd1080ts said:
I saw Apple going nowhere with regard to the Pro market with regard to FCX, no updates to Mac Pro and now the death of the 17inch MacBook Pro.

So switched back to Windows with Win7 and Adobe Creative Cloud with CS6.
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How did you find the switch?
 
I know Apple tends to be a very quiet company, however, this is one time, they need to get in front of the story. Tell us, it was all a big mistake and new hardware is coming.
 
I'm done waiting.....goodbye Apple!

I couldn't wait myself, so I purchased a new PC....a Dell Alienware PC to be exact. Does what I need it to do and more. Dell gets my money this time around, not Apple.

The Herd
 
Well that's business

Goodbye Mac Pro. Hello HP z820. That's 60 new workstations you won't be supplying me. That's just business.
 
The "Buy now" still is up.


Seriously, MR? You're going to sit there with a straight face and ask users who browse your site for advice, that it's a good idea to buy a machine with 3 year old hardware for 2000-4000$?

Change it. Now.
 
For Thunderbolt in a desktop machine, do you need a graphics card that specifically supports it? Or is there a way to route a DisplayPort video signal from the graphics card to something that combines it into a Thunderbolt adapter? In the situation of integrated graphics it's easy. Maybe I'm wondering if that is part of the hold up.
 
I have been an Apple supporter for years. In the past, they have made great products. The applications I use are not available on Linux. Windows is starting to look good.
 
Don't loose the faith...

LOL it should say "Lose" instead of "loose" LOL
Ok in the one hand, it was really anticlimactic.... only poor processor upgrades... but i truly believe there is something special in the works for the MacPro...

There was a nice article in arstechnica http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/06/what-should-the-long-awaited-mac-pro-update-look-like/

and it mentions the what and the why of many of our desires-not-come-to-fruition...

Besides take into account that there were a lot of upgrades, including MountainLion, iOS6, new MBPs, even new airport express, and the MBPs with retina need new versions in HD of OS X. So first i believe they need to polish all the corners BEFORE serving it to PROs. If you as a common joe mess up a video of your familiy BBQ yes it will be annoying. But if you as a PRO mess several hours of RED cameras footage, or 3D renderings or anything PROs make a living out of, it would be more of an insult than not upgrading the whole MacPro system.

LOL in the other hand i have a two year old MacPro with the specs of a brand-new-as-in-day-one: 3.2Ghz Xeon, 4x1TB HD, 12 Gb RAM and ATI Radeon HD 57700 :D, I just saved 2500 USD.
 
nagromme said:
Agreed—or at least, how much Apple believes the pro market is going to be focused on towers in future.
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Or windows machines and hackintoshes.

zemoleman said:
Is this part of the Grand 5 Year Plan Steverino left behind? If he were around Apple would have had these stinkin' chips months ago by bludgeoning Intel until he had them...
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Actually if SJ were still around I suspect we'd see the opposite, the MP dumped even sooner. I was hoping that Cook would have more respect for pro users but sadly this confirms that he doesn't.
 
nilk said:
For Thunderbolt in a desktop machine, do you need a graphics card that specifically supports it? Or is there a way to route a DisplayPort video signal from the graphics card to something that combines it into a Thunderbolt adapter? In the situation of integrated graphics it's easy. Maybe I'm wondering if that is part of the hold up.
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It would be messy, however, you could do it with jumpers.

Even without the Thunderbolt, we could have had better processors, USB 3 and PCI EXPRESS 3.0.

This was just a message to pro users, "Get out, we don't want you."
 
upset

So Long Apple, we sure had a good time togheter!
Now it's time to move forward...

Only choices left are:
-Quit music
or
-Go PC...



A Former sad owner of more MP and MBP than my two hand's finger can count...
 
Sean4000 said:
If you're going to exit the Pro Market Apple, please open-source shake so that MAINSTREAM Linux users can use it, not Just Hollywood FX houses.

Get this: Even Autodesk Smoke 2008 for.......IRIX ........is STILL supported. Now THAT'S commitment.
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Shake is obsolete. Switch to Nuke. You won't regret it. It's much faster, not to mention more powerful and extensible. You can pretty much bend it to serve any VFX pipeline by writing some Python.
 
Tim Cook said at D10, "And Compaq, if people got angry at Compaq, they would just buy from Dell. And Dell, if they got angry at Dell, they would just buy from IBM. But an Apple customer was a unique breed. And there was this emotion that you just don’t see in technology in general."

Even though this may be true they shouldn't just take this for granted and exploit customers' loyalty.
 
Seems more like a minor hold you over for the next major release bump. I think they've done this before with other products. 6 months later a new redesign comes out. Not sure if that will fly this time around though...
 
psingh01 said:
Seems more like a minor hold you over for the next major release bump. I think they've done this before with other products. 6 months later a new redesign comes out. Not sure if that will fly this time around though...
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If they don't want the remainder of the pro market walking out in mass, they need to break their vow of silence and announce better things are coming. Once the pro market walks, it will be many years before they come back.

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People talk about how the pro market is so small; That is why they release so few products for it. If they were to update faster, sales would not be so small!
 
Simplicated said:
Tim Cook said at D10, "And Compaq, if people got angry at Compaq, they would just buy from Dell. And Dell, if they got angry at Dell, they would just buy from IBM. But an Apple customer was a unique breed. And there was this emotion that you just don’t see in technology in general."

Even though this may be true they shouldn't just take this for granted and exploit customers' loyalty.
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Proof Tim Cook is delusional. If people get angry at Apple, then they buy from , Dell, HP, IBM, Acer, Toshiba, and on and on and on.

Sorry Timmy time to pull your head out. You can't do this to customers waiting to spend money and force antiquated equipment at them and call it NEW. We're not that stupid.

At least come clean and say "sorry people we've spend so much time on a talking phone we forgot about the Mac Pro" At least I would respect that.
 
Hang on ;)

In Switzerland they raised the prices for the entry Mac Pro by 300.- !!!

It used to be 2499.- now it's 2799.-! Oh and the Superdrive is CHF 10.- more expensive.

That company starts to loose it! Take that retina and put it up your ****.

Did someone take screenshots of the Mac Pro befor the change in the store?
 
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