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Apple Offers Sneak Peek of Completely Redesigned Mac Pro
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Considering Apple has gone to great length to cancel all of its professional software offerings for absolutely no reason, having them take a professional-class workstation and turning it into a plastic trash can with no expansion PCI slots, which ALL PRO USERS NEED, is of no great surprise to me.
Seriously, when I went into video editing, I often met people who hated Apple with a passion and who were scolding me for investing in a Final Cut Studio-centered business. I now understand why.
Seriously, when I went into video editing, I often met people who hated Apple with a passion and who were scolding me for investing in a Final Cut Studio-centered business. I now understand why.
By the way, it IS NOT plastic. It is aluminium. Also, it is NOT "Alooo-me-numm"
Since it is being assembled and partially made in the U.S., the case can be made that the case is aluminum (uh-loo'-mih-nuhm). If it were all dressed up for a night out, it would have jewelry, NOT jewellery.
That's the "innovative" part... The thermal design is pure genious.
Everyone please look at the presentation at http://www.apple.com/mac-pro/ before commenting, it answers a lot of questions.
I think people are underestimating the upgrade possibilities of this design. Obviously you won't be able to insert third-party peripherals into the case, but that doesn't mean it isn't upgradable, you'll just need dedicated devices. RAM and SSD is obviously upgradable, but I don't see why the graphic cards shouldn't be as well. Even the mainboard looks to be fairly easy to get to. I don't think we should assume that just because they chose to go to a completely new chassis design, foregoing existing socket designs, means no upgrades.
IOW, there's a difference between expandability and upgradability. I believe this design is perfectly upgradable, but expandable only externally.
I suppose as a fairly newer user (I only made the switch to Mac about six years ago) I find that as I need more of a workstation model, Apple continues to move further and further away from it.
I noticed, not surprisingly, that they removed the super drive, I know where Apple is going but dammit some of us still have to deliver our products to our customers that way....
I really don't care what it looks like, but I have to agree that it resembles a garbage can....
I can't add cards? What about scsii, I have a lot already invested in a full raid 5 system and I'm not going to replace it with a cheesy thunderbolt system that still hasn't caught on.
Tim Cook, like his predecessor pretty much ignores the public and serves up this constant dish of smaller is better....
I have news for Mr. Cook, smaller isn't always better.
I noticed, not surprisingly, that they removed the super drive, I know where Apple is going but dammit some of us still have to deliver our products to our customers that way....
I really don't care what it looks like, but I have to agree that it resembles a garbage can....
I can't add cards? What about scsii, I have a lot already invested in a full raid 5 system and I'm not going to replace it with a cheesy thunderbolt system that still hasn't caught on.
Tim Cook, like his predecessor pretty much ignores the public and serves up this constant dish of smaller is better....
I have news for Mr. Cook, smaller isn't always better.
Those PCIe cards are going to have to find a new chassis.
But the disk drives are now "old tech" and are replaced by Flash. You cn re-purpose them as backup devices. I'd stuff those 4 drives on a four slot DAS USB3 DAS box and use then for offsite storage. drop the hole box ina small fire save in some far away building.
Now that is a new one: "...too many ports! I might use all the ports and not need a hub. Nooo Apple! Please give me fewer ports. Also cable ties and conduit will bust my budget, it might cost me another $20 to tie all those cable together."
My guess is most people will not use half of those ports, but even still I'd rather have more ports than fewer. My current MP has plenty of cables spewing from it. Never affected me a bit. You tie 'em up and slip them though conduit.
I had one of the last generation of MP and one thing I never had to worry about was someone breaking into my house and stealing it.
Progress is having to buy security cables, I guess.
Joking aside,
I love the look, very cool! Also looking forward to seeing it put through it paces.
I love the look, very cool! Also looking forward to seeing it put through it paces.
You'll be able to [relatively] easily expand storage through thunderbolt. Also, it has 2x AMD FirePro's (2x ~3,500GFLOPs, for overall 7,000GFLOPs). By comparison, the GTX Titan (top of the line $1000+ desktop workstation GPU) offers only 4,500GFLOPs. Anyone who needs more GPU power should probably upgrade to Cray Titan.
I think it's gorgeous. I do hope there's one in silver, though.
Garbage can? Cray 2b!
Or a REAL tiny CRAY 2b Super computer:
That said, they should design a stackable expansion mousle to keep the cables contained, in my opinion.
Looks really cool, but It does remind me a bit of a garbage can
Or a REAL tiny CRAY 2b Super computer:
That said, they should design a stackable expansion mousle to keep the cables contained, in my opinion.
You're being too generous. I would gauge a fully upgraded model will be north of $12,000.
Everything about this new design is proprietary.
... and we all know how well the Nexus Q did.
What on earth has that got to do with this????????????
I guess some people on here haven't even gone to the website?
http://www.apple.com/mac-pro/
Yes, it's aluminum. Yes, it has removable RAM and Flash drive.
http://www.apple.com/mac-pro/
Yes, it's aluminum. Yes, it has removable RAM and Flash drive.