Apple Offers Sneak Peek of Completely Redesigned Mac Pro

[prowlmedia]

It's not plastic - machined aluminium.

Loads more info and goodness here.

http://www.apple.com/mac-pro/

 

[Rocketman]

This preview checks all my boxes. I am concerned about my friends that need PCIe expansion. Will there be a native PCI expansion to an external box? I think it needs that. That site says external expansion boxes attach via TB2. After reading the tech comments about PCIe vs TB1 in threads here, I suspect it will be fine for functionality cards but not ones that max out the bandwidth.

http://www.apple.com/mac-pro/index1.html

D 6.6" x H 9.9".

I think this is a sleeper media center PC with the native support for 3x 4K displays. Now where to plug them in . . . (802.11ac?)

Rocketman

 

[whooleytoo]

I don't want to ruin you expectations but those GPU will not be able to handle games, matter of drivers and architecture.

The problem with Apple's line-up is you have gamers (my hand's up), design/graphics pros and server admins all craving the same device.

I nearly had a pants-accident when I first saw the design and the specs; but now I'm not so certain. Dual workstation class cards will probably be hugely expensive (from Apple) and yet might not offer top-class gaming performance. Any pros who have invested heavily in Firewire / internal expansion might be left out in the cold. And it's certainly not rack mountable.

I still want one...

 

[mrxak]

I am hereby coining the term "mothercolumn". Feel free to spread it around.

 

[iBug2]

You obviously arent talking about the GPU performance when you say that, as its leagues ahead of what is available on the now classic Mac Pro.

I cant imagine you are talking about bandwidth in regards to your storage, as thunderbolt 2 has substantially more bandwidth than the sata connections you are using to connect your current HDD's.. So what exactly are you talking about?

He's talking about PCI-e cards he's using, but he's failing at it since those cards don't use full PCI-e bandwidth. Even top of the line GPU's still cannot tap that bandwidth fully.

 

[CausticPuppy]

Looks really cool, but It does remind me a bit of a garbage can

Garbage can? Are you kidding?

ThinkGeek is gonna make a killing on R2D2 conversion kits for the new Mac Pro.

 

[Larry-K]

The Cube is Back!

Only now, it's the "Master Cylinder".

 

[Eidorian]

Complete rubbish. It will scream at most games.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/workstation-graphics-card-gaming,3425.html

It isn't worth the price.

 

[Moonjumper]

Looks very nice, but expansion is external, and that might also mean it isn't upgradeable over time. If so, it misses the point of the Mac Pro.

 

[wiz329]

To Hackintosh or windows. I don't want 50 cables cluttering my desk up with external expandability. I don't need a smaller machine -- its a freaking WORKSTATION.

 

[mrhick01]

New mac pro, looks nice. For me it's too bad they don't offer a "low cost" version with more consumer orriented internals like core i7 cpu instead to keep the cost lower

That is just not going to happen.

 

[iBug2]

Btw, is it me or is Apple using Flash on their new product sites now? Mac Pro site uses Flash.

 

[Skjetne]

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.....

 

[quagmire]

Actually its says on the website its constructed of Aluminum.

Just saw that. So happy. Just from the pictures from the event( the livefeed crashed on me) with no mention of material used, seeing that glossy shine that plastic tends to have made me panic.

Looking at how it is designed, wow. It is very Cube like. Now that the material used is now known, solid redesign.

 

[Larry-K]

I am hereby coining the term "mothercolumn". Feel free to spread it around.

I think you're missing a word.

 

[Yamcha]

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.....

Actually It's not plastic, just checked the specification page of the new Mac Pro, and it's made of Aluminum

EDIT: Somebody already beat me to it

 

[lord patton]

So, that's what the offspring of an Alienware tower and a Mac mini looks like. Here's my plan.

1. Get a job that pays
2. Take PTO
3. Camp in front of Mac Store
4. Buy the new Mac
5. Have a gasm that have new hardware
6. Complain next year that my hardware is woeful out of date.
7. Rinse
8. Lather
9. Repeat

Always repeat

 

[nick_elt]

Btw, is it me or is Apple using Flash on their new product sites now? Mac Pro site uses Flash.

It wont load on my mac which has flash

but will load on my android, strange

 

[carl0sian]

Wait...no space for liquid based cooling rig? hahahaha

love the new Mac Pro... the days of massive towers are over!

 

[MisterKeeks]

The bottom of it looks just like the bottom of the iMac G4.

 

[mozumder]

Interesting design. Not sure the external interfaces are going to have enough bandwidth for a quad HD-SDI card, though. I guess we'll have to use 4 separate thunderbolt ports.

And would it have 10GBps ethernet on the motherboard?

Everything else seems cool. Glad they went with the 2xGPU, which solves the upgrade problem - just have the fastest GPUs in there in the first place!

Also trying to figure out how to rack-mount this...

 

[JamesInLA]

So, round is the new square.

 

[quagmire]

Actually It's not plastic, just checked the specification page of the new Mac Pro, and it's made of Aluminum

EDIT: Somebody already beat me to it

And acknowledged by me a few post above yours. Like I said without knowing, that shiny enclosure sure does look like it is plastic. But, so glad it isn't.

 

[Brett.F]

who wants a multi thousand dollar trash can?

 

[rhett7660]

I think it looks interesting. TB expansion that for me kind of sucks, do to the current price of TB.