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Apple Offers Sneak Peek of Completely Redesigned Mac Pro
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You can have a giant empty box sit on your desktop always occupying/consuming that potential "expansion space" or eliminate that wasted cavity, have a sexy minimalist desktop PC and externally upgrade it all you want.
Question:
How you define "a professional"? Being "a professional" is a description others give of you; if you say "Hey, I'mmm a PRO_FESHHHIONAL" to describe yourself, you have an ego the size of Africa, and I very much doubt you are one.
A true professional knows it's unprofessional to show off about one's perceived skills. Keep your mouth closed, work to the best of your abilities, and be blessed with the adoration that OTHERS give you - you have no right to be seen as one.
How you define "a professional"? Being "a professional" is a description others give of you; if you say "Hey, I'mmm a PRO_FESHHHIONAL" to describe yourself, you have an ego the size of Africa, and I very much doubt you are one.
A true professional knows it's unprofessional to show off about one's perceived skills. Keep your mouth closed, work to the best of your abilities, and be blessed with the adoration that OTHERS give you - you have no right to be seen as one.
Want ...nowwwwww!!!!!!!!
I am curious though... Black plastic? Is that really plastic? Please be not plastic. The cylinder form factor was an odd choice. The GPU question that remains is whille I be able to upgrade it? I wonder if external thunderbolt GPU's are in the pipeline? I know sonnett puts out a pretty heavy duty TB external gpu system.
I am curious though... Black plastic? Is that really plastic? Please be not plastic. The cylinder form factor was an odd choice. The GPU question that remains is whille I be able to upgrade it? I wonder if external thunderbolt GPU's are in the pipeline? I know sonnett puts out a pretty heavy duty TB external gpu system.
I'm sure you are not trolling and are just misinformed. This is not plastic. It is Metal. I'm certain that you just didn't know that the details are on the Apple Website. "Refined impact extrusion technologies are more material-efficient and give the polished aluminum enclosure its incredible shape and finish".
I think the new Mac Pro looks pretty good. We will know more in the coming months once final specs are released, the hardware ships, and Thunderbolt 2 expansion options are available.
The one thing I was hoping for is a decent way to rack the new Mac Pro. I am sure someone will come up with something that will work, but the form factor doesn't seem too user friendly for a rack. Perhaps Sonnet will figure out something cool.
No dual CPU's means this is not a PRO machine it's a prosumer machine. Also AMD graphics, really? No Quadro no GTX options makes this DOA for many professionals and even many gamers. Fu** Apple, seriously? 
HP Z820 I choose you!
HP Z820 I choose you!
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I've always loved the old design but this is pretty smart in terms of thermal regulation.
? I'm pretty sure that's the back..
? I'm pretty sure that's the back..
You have it backwards. Apple needs to offer a machine with 'Pro' in the name so that a bunch of neckbeards can feel like hotshots when they buy it.
Easy, you stick it into an external Thunderbolt enclosure if you really want to keep using them.
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...
Wow, you seem awfully certain of yourself for not having all of the information about a "sneak peak" of a product.
No dual CPU's means this is not a PRO machine it's a prosumer machine. Also AMD graphics, really? No Quadro no GTX options makes this DOA for many professionals and even many gamers. Fu** Apple, seriously?
HP Z820 I choose you!
Huh, all of the benchmarks in Solidworks, AutoCAD, Maya, show the AMD graphics blowing the Nvidia graphics out of the water.
Games? LOL, why would you buy it to play games.
Not plastic.
Refined impact extrusion technologies are more material-efficient and give the polished aluminum enclosure its incredible shape and finish.
Refined impact extrusion technologies are more material-efficient and give the polished aluminum enclosure its incredible shape and finish.
THEY HAVE DISCONTINUED IT !!!!
this new machine is crap for half pros.
extensions will make even simple storage much more expensive. internal 3tb for $150? forget it.
and other things like professional GPU rendering with multiple titans is probably impossible.
i really wish they would license another company to make usable hardware
as it is i fear my next workstation will be a pc
oh man, how much i hate them for it !!!!
No dual CPU's means this is not a PRO machine it's a prosumer machine. Also AMD graphics, really? No Quadro no GTX options makes this DOA for many professionals and even many gamers. Fu** Apple, seriously?
HP Z820 I choose you!
Now you can go and copy/paste your rant on Reddit
what a bunch of whiner drama queens!
when I read about how (boohoo) "my ancient old hard drives won't plug into it so now I have to copy data" or "they didn't make exactly the device shape I fantasized about while in bed last night" I wanna shake my head and laugh!
brand new bleeding edge 12 core processors, somebody's complaining that it doesn't have enough juice?
so much whining about "expandability", when this is the *ultimate* in expandability. so many posters have NOT been paying attention to Thunderbolt and external SSD tech lately! (swing by barefeats.com). and you're saving 75 PERCENT of your desktop space here with this device.....picture it....fill that space with STORAGE, breakfast cereal, etc. jeez. it's fantastic and you're ridiculous.
here's what's gonna happen:
-it's gonna be relatively affordable.
-drive chassis will come in all shapes and sizes, and you'll like it.
when I read about how (boohoo) "my ancient old hard drives won't plug into it so now I have to copy data" or "they didn't make exactly the device shape I fantasized about while in bed last night" I wanna shake my head and laugh!
brand new bleeding edge 12 core processors, somebody's complaining that it doesn't have enough juice?
so much whining about "expandability", when this is the *ultimate* in expandability. so many posters have NOT been paying attention to Thunderbolt and external SSD tech lately! (swing by barefeats.com). and you're saving 75 PERCENT of your desktop space here with this device.....picture it....fill that space with STORAGE, breakfast cereal, etc. jeez. it's fantastic and you're ridiculous.
here's what's gonna happen:
-it's gonna be relatively affordable.
-drive chassis will come in all shapes and sizes, and you'll like it.
I think it looks pretty awesome! It's a weird yet refreshing design too, something I can say I haven't seen anything like before. I'm interested to know how the external expandability will work.
Yes, you're right. I was being a little flippant, and I apologize.
I wish you luck with making your Hackintosh workstation.
(It wouldn't work for me since the only reason I'd go with the workstation would be for the stability (of Xeon processors and workstation-class graphics) and I've never had a Hacked machine I'd trust with that but that's just me).
No dual CPU's means this is not a PRO machine it's a prosumer machine. Also AMD graphics, really? No Quadro no GTX options makes this DOA for many professionals and even many gamers. Fu** Apple, seriously?
HP Z820 I choose you!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpJ30U3erkI
I take you don't know the difference between a processor and a core? What's wrong with wanting 24 cores, plus whatever GPUs I have access to?
IT HAS DISCONTINUED IT !!!!
this machine is just crap.
extension will make even simple storage much more expensive
other things like professional GPU rendering will be impossible as it seems
i wish they would license another company to make their hardware
as it is i fear my next workstation will be a pc
oh man, i hate them for it !!!!
We love that you provide such predictable entertainment - the fact that you put your "hatred" into words is hilarious. I guess you won't want one if I buy you one, then?
To all those complaining about external storage... go to Wikipedia, and type in "[ bandwidth ]", then come back when you've read EVERYTHING. If you want a hard limit of 6Gbps, complain to Tim Cook - I'm sure he'll listen to your backward thinking