I am in a small research group that uses Mac Pros for scientific computing problems (fluid dynamics, large eddy simulation, numerical weather prediction). Apple can take our money because we will buy this as soon as it is available.
Made out of plastic? Seriously? Spend $1299 and get a nice aluminum iMac. $2499 gets me a plastic Mac Pro(predicting cost of the new Mac Pro)? Screw that.....
Made out of plastic? Seriously? Spend $1299 and get a nice aluminum iMac. $2499 gets me a plastic Mac Pro(predicting cost of the new Mac Pro)? Screw that.....
Fail for you maybe, just like the power loom was a fail to the Luddites.
I don't see how you can complain you'll have to find room for TB enclosures when the new MP is a fraction of the footprint of the old box. You could stack the MP on top of a 4 bay enclosure and it would still dwarf the old MP's size. Your reaction, I think, it complete knee jerk because you want the old in a new package, not the new in a new package and cannot process workflow and storage is changing.
And if you are a real true pro $1400 on extra equipment is nothing. If you are a consumer, yes, a lot of money. But for a pro, you make that back in a job or two and then its pure bonus profit because your productivity just increased because you are not sitting around for a drive to finish writing.
It might for some but that's not much. PC users could do this like forever? So what's the innovation here? Will you be able to use, say, latest Intel® Xeon Phi Coprocessor?
Is it confirmed that the RAM in these is not user upgradable? It so this is not a Pro machine.
Is it confirmed that the RAM in these is not user upgradable? It so this is not a Pro machine.
Nope.
It's a "Machined Aluminum Enclosure. Refined impact extrusion technologies are more material-efficient and give the polished aluminum enclosure its incredible shape and finish."
2nd last page here: http://www.apple.com/mac-pro/
Do YOU use the latest Intel® Xeon Phi Coprocessor?
The argument against innovation is ridiculous. Looking at the history of your posts, it seems that you would like nothing less than for Apple to shutter its doors permanently tomorrow and for its executive staff to be instantly thrown into poverty.
Pros would not be complaining about no innovation. Pros would thank Apple kindly and get back to work on their updated hardware with complete feature-set.
so it's ridiculous ugly and i had to surround it with cables, external HDD, docks, hubs..
pass
Is it confirmed that the RAM in these is not user upgradable? It so this is not a Pro machine.
If it sells for more then 1500 its a waste. You can build a high end Hacketosh for less.
With the greatest of respect, I'm not sure where you're getting your facts from. Phil stated that upgradability was one of the main factors in the new Mac Pro. It even mentions upgradability on Apple's website (see: http://www.apple.com/pr/library/201...-Peek-Into-the-Future-of-the-Pro-Desktop.html)
It comes with, from what I can see, a minimum of a 12-core CPU, and dual GPUs. It's got PCI SSDs, for god's sake; that's pretty much 4x as fast as any consumer SSD.
And although we all know very little about it, the 'facts' you have stated about the Mac Pro all seem to contradict what was in the keynote. And frankly, I'm amazed they've managed to pack so much power into such a small frame.
Small≠non-upgradeable.
From the pic it is user upgradable. Its not soldered on. Thats for sure.
From Apple:
Traditionally, pro computers have relied primarily on the CPU for their computing power. But as GPU performance has dramatically increased, software developers have begun to leverage that power in their apps. With the new Mac Pro, we looked ahead and engineered an even more powerful GPU architecture. Not only does it feature a state-of-the-art AMD FirePro workstation-class GPU with up to 6GB of dedicated VRAM it features two of them. With all that power, youll be able to do things like seamlessly edit full-resolution 4K video while simultaneously rendering effects in the background and still have enough power to connect up to three high-resolution 4K displays.
These won't do?
It could be cute, but you're buying in to Apple's exorbitant internal storage costs, and the only option is to add external crap. Suddenly the iMac looks almost good.
Video pro's using Linux for editing? Heh..you're funny![]()
Fail for you maybe, just like the power loom was a fail to the Luddites.
I don't see how you can complain you'll have to find room for TB enclosures when the new MP is a fraction of the footprint of the old box. You could stack the MP on top of a 4 bay enclosure and it would still dwarf the old MP's size. Your reaction, I think, it complete knee jerk because you want the old in a new package, not the new in a new package and cannot process workflow and storage is changing.
And if you are a real true pro $1400 on extra equipment is nothing. If you are a consumer, yes, a lot of money. But for a pro, you make that back in a job or two and then its pure bonus profit because your productivity just increased because you are not sitting around for a drive to finish writing.