Apple Offers Sneak Peek of Completely Redesigned Mac Pro

[movieator]

Looks like plastic

There are these things, next to the picture, called "words".

 

[pmz]

And too much of a gimmick...

This is a rather large extended middle finger to the 'pro' customer...

It looks more like a toy than an earth shaking computer, and 'all' of the extensions are to be external? Yeah, that will go over well...

I guess I'd be more impressed if it was black machined aluminum, with slots, but this doesn't impress me. 'Cute' only goes so far...

HA! Don't make me laugh. A gimmick? Please do yourself a favor, knock off the childish antics, and go to Apple's website spend a few minutes looking at the webpage dedicated to this product. Maybe you'll come away with an education on what matters.

 

[Pooba]

2000 it was the Cube. 2013 it's the Tube.

 

[bearcatrp]

The gpus are $3,300 a piece by the way if newegg is any indication

If thats the case, this thing will start at 8 grand. Pretty sure this will be the last mac pro apple makes as don't see these selling well. Am sure Microsoft is laughing as this just increased there share of windows users.

 

[makaveli559m]

Mmm reminds me of a 1,299+ trash can. No optical drives or user replaceable parts? No business from me than, I will be having my Mac Pro for a while than, at least I still have options to upgrade my RAM or hard drives.

 

[sna]

REALLY easy answer ... don't buy one!

I will do the thing I never did b4 , Hackintosh.

and you did not give an easy answer. I need a Mac workstation. they destroyed it.

 

[Pegamush]

oh and if anyone were still wondering, firewire is officially dead i admit i'm kind of glad about it. now please let the thunderbolt spread!
let's see if they'll release a 4k 30" display for it. right now they're not so cheap though http://goo.gl/kZf4T

 

[Blu Reel]

Maybe its just me, but it doesn't have an Apple signature on it whatsoever. It actually looks like something Dell or Lenovo would have made, without the Apple logo it would look like, dare I say it, an unusual "Generic PC case"

Really? Please post pics of a Dell or Lenovo or any other PC brand out there that makes something that looks remotely like this AND takes heat generation like this.

 

[xcodeaddict]

Does it look familiar to Anyone else??

Seems like a nerd wants their crude, obvious "scene" JPEG to become "famous". Yes, it's a cylinder... well done. Now, run along and watch Sesame Street, good lad.

Talking of trash cans, I wonder if there's one BIG enough to fit all the troll posts into? Got to be a few yottabytes by now, surely...

 

[Umbongo]

LOL .. thats even worse lol ... do you know how much 12 cores Xeon will cost ? no less than $2000 for cpu only.

the 8 cores are at $1600

Yep, but at the same time the 12-cores may be clocked decently to where they aren't that much different to dual 6-cores of similar speeds. For example: http://ark.intel.com/compare/64582,64587

 

[ThunderSkunk]

I love this.

And I'm enjoying the stodgy unimaginative punters moaning in agony.

Fantastic.

 

[Sean4000]

This new Mac Pro will make an EXCELLENT GPU hash cracker!

 

[musser]

tedious dark cloud mentality

I'm really fatigued by the constant negativity. I'm not suggesting we all follow blindly but there's gotta be some positive support in the mix. It's just too easy to constantly poopoo every effort.

 

[AZREOSpecialist]

Pros have never complained about the old design, except maybe that the handles dug into the hands rather sharply. It was utilitarian, it was functional, it got the job done in a cool, quiet enclosure.

Non-pros commented on it sure, but none of those people actually own Mac Pros, or will be buying this new computer either. They thought it was ugly, but any pro knows that the inside was a thing of beauty. If Apple is listening to people not in the market, and decided to make this, then well they've ruined things for everyone.

I think this new machine is clearly not for cynical folks.

 

[deanbo]

Power Button Should Be On The Front

Other than that, my first impression was that it looked like a sub woofer. Upon closer inspection however it looks like it might be a technicians dream when coming to swapping / upgrading internals.

 

[AZREOSpecialist]

That's called an iMac.

Except you can't even replace the RAM without disassembling the entire LCD panel. And it only comes in 21" and 27" size, when 24" is the sweet spot for most people. And I don't want to buy a new display every year.

Then buy a Mac Pro. Gosh, you seem awfully hard to please.

 

[aliensporebomb]

Ah

As a music studio engineer, looking to upgrade our current Mac Pro, the new Mac Pro might be an economically turn off.

Our system needs two PCI-express slots and several harddrives for projects, sample libraries etc. Buying a Mac Pro, AND a PCI-express chassi, AND external harddrive chassi, might be waaaaaay to much money to spend.

Note that i wrote "might be". I sure do hope i.e. Magma chassis get alot cheaper along with other Thunderbolt devices.

For this music producer/project studio geek I eagerly look forward to rearchitecting my whole setup. It's time.

 

[lloyd709]

It is a real 'Pro' computer only there are not that many 'pros' that haven't already switched to iMacs and will probably stay with iMacs. The few 'pros' that really need that power won't think twice about buying it but there aren't many of them!! What it's not is a Mac enthusiast machine which are most of those on this forum (this thread anyway)!!

 

[joeconvert]

Hey, its a pity they didn't put a little circular seat round the bottom, so you could pretend you had a Cray-1 and sit Scientist Barbie on it.

You have won the thread, my friend.

 

[AZREOSpecialist]

Great for you. I guess my tunnel vision is based upon personal use. In a music studio it needs to move from room to room. There are no "real" thunderbolt options for audio interfaces "yet". So TB2 to PCIe expansion chassis for now. Not that I've seen a TB2 chassis yet. Where does it sit? On top the macpro? And I need 4 slots at the moment. And drive bays? For me, getting it all neatly into one movable space and no hanging cables is important. It very much looks like a standalone beauty. Unfortunately, it needs other hardware for it to be of use. No doubt a very sexy design. But just not practical in my working environment. "yet". The current MacPro is behind, now this one leap frogs. Let's see how fast TB2 hardware catches up.

I'm sure a vast range of TB2 expansion options will exist, probably a fair number of them coming from Apple. This was a sneak peak, it was not intended to answer all questions. Have faith.

 

[Tech198]

Looks just like a UPS, with more functionality.

Why would you want to plug in power at the front ? No one does that..

 

[sna]

Really? Please post pics of a Dell or Lenovo or any other PC brand out there that makes something that looks remotely like this AND takes heat generation like this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpJ30U3erkI

 

[840quadra]

Curious, and hoping pricing is on the affordable side of what Apple considers Pro.

I have a Mac Mini Server with SSD drives in it, since I do more work with FCP and other video editing software these days, the Mini is starting to feel slow / tired.

I like the small footprint, and the style doesn't bother me. I can't see my current Mac Mini, and personally haven't liked the design of Apple Pro desktops, since the G4 towers were discontinued .

 

[paradox00]

There are these things, next to the picture, called "words".

There is this thing, in his post, called an emoticon.

 

[AnalyzeThis]

"Mac Pro: Trash can edition"