Apple Offers Sneak Peek of Completely Redesigned Mac Pro

[rmwebs]

I wish they would have used the old design. I see no room for expanding hard drive space and I'm curious if the GPU will be upgradable.

Thunderbolt - that is all.

 

[Jookbox]

I think it looks awesome.

 

[jakebot]

it's aluminum.

 

[rmwebs]

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.....

Yes because the Mac Pro exists for street cred...

Seriously? You bitch about the material used to make the damn thing?

 

[rascopico]

Umm...have you ever edited a feature film with FCP 7 and with FCP X? If so, you wouldn't say that about FCP X.

No, I'd use Avid or even Premiere. But then again I'm a Colourist so don't do much editing just Colour grading. Never had a project from FCP X. All features and Broadcast TV is from Avid or FCP 7 if they are on a budget. So going on that.

 

[jonnysods]

So strange looking. But I like it. Looking forward to seeing one perform.

 

[nick_elt]

damn that flash storage wont be cheap by the looks

 

[Walter White]

From keeping everything inside to keeping everything outside. I have mixed feelings about this.

 

[nick_elt]

Yes because the Mac Pro exists for street cred...

Seriously? You bitch about the material used to make the damn thing?

funnily enough, its also made from aluminium...

 

[iLoveMyApple]

Engadget has more real life photos!

 

[CausticPuppy]

The unified heatsink-- er, "thermal core"-- is one of those "why didn't anybody think of this sooner" kind of things.


I'd say Apple's still "got it."

 

[rmwebs]

Six Thunderbolt 2 ports

 

[jamescobalt]

Ram

Today at #WWDC @Apple announces a new Mac Pro that also doubles as a Fleshlight.

 

[alvindarkness]

Thunderbolt is worthless for graphics expansion and I'd assume someone informed enough to need the option would already be aware of why that is:

http://www.barefeats.com/hard164.html

Bandwidth is limited to 2.5x PCIe and GPUs typically need an additional power feed that is also absent on expansion systems.

You realise Thunderbold 2 has twice the bandwidth of whats being talked about in that article. Considering the great internal GPU power, any external GPUs used by pros would be there for adding multiple-heads, or more OpenCL computational speed, for which 20GB/s (of thunderbolt 2) is ample.

We arent talking about buying a Titan to house externally for gaming here of course, this is a whole different market. And even if we were talking about that, it'll still do fine for most.

 

[mrxak]

Apple doesn't update Mac Pro, Macrumors users complain,
Apple does update Mac Pro, Macrumors users complain.

This isn't an update. They've removed critical features.

 

[Larry-K]

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

Yeah, I think so, now I have to upgrade Flash again, I had just turned it off, and I was pretty happy that way.

Maybe this is the year to abandon Apple and Adobe.

 

[FuFuFu]

Looks like a trash can ... but yeah smaller is better

 

[iBug2]

So let's guess the price. 6GB ATI Fire HD GPU's cost around 2500$, two of those would cost 5000$ alone. Add one CPU (This is not a dual CPU design I think), and you are already above 6K. Add memory, flash, chassis and I/O and you are looking at 8500$ minimum.

 

[RL600]

I've been waiting silently to see what they've been teasing at for so long now. I thought for sure that with Steve gone, they'd finally release a modest, modular "xMac" after all these years.

Instead, they release a MacMini Pro.

For years, I've been hoping for a simple desktop from Apple that would grow with my needs. I've never needed a workstation, but occasionally I like to replace my graphics card, or throw in an extra hard drive. I've needed a Mac Pro Lite. Apple consistently refused to deliver.

I've tried hackintoshes for the past 8 years, but they're always too much work to maintain, and too unstable. Eventually I just gave up.

And I didn't end up settling for an iMac, a Mac Pro, or a Mac Mini.

After DECADES of being an Apple fanboy - believing in the company when no one else did (much to the ridicule of all my friends) - Apple has made a Windows user out of me.

I would've never believed it to be possible.

Hate on me all you want. You are no longer my people.

-Clive

This. All of this. Apple is forcing us back to the dark side.

 

[cmanderson]

This "garbage can" is a joke. Apple's 2013 Newton. Steve Jobs is most certainly rolling in is grave.


Three thumbs DOWN.

You don't know whether or not Steve Jobs had any input into its design.

It reminds me more of this:

http://skinwalker.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/blackgoo.jpg

 

[AppleMark]

Two questions -

1. Will it come in white?

2. Will it power a Delorean and take me back to 1985?

 

[patent10021]

Sorry but this is the difference between MacRumors and AppleInsider. Lots of non pros talking out of their asses here.

Awesome update by Apple.

 

[LagunaSol]

I think the old (well, current) Mac Pro is the most beautiful desktop computer ever made, even after all these years. Shame to see it go.

 

[cmanderson]

This isn't an update. They've removed critical features.

No, they've space shifted them. It's not the same thing. If you want a PC, buy a PC. It's really that simple.

 

[prowlmedia]

I guess Apple mean Pro like they meant Pro when talking about FCP X, i.e. not Pro in the slightest....

I hope the specs improve when more info comes out, as this could be like FCPX and be another factor driving Professionals back to Windows or Linux.

Well we just used FCPX to edit a feature film and use it everyday on TV and commercials. Whilst you may have been right a year ago - the latest version is very fast and capable.

Sounding pretty resistant to change there.

External storage is where it's at.

The GPU's may well be swappable - we don't know yet.

Was worried about the AMD Graphics as we also use premiere / AE and heavily relied on Nvidia Cuda stuff in that - but Adobe are doing the same with AMD now.

40GB/s PCIe Gen 3

PCI Express main storage... now that is going to be pricey - going to want at least 1TB.

And only 4 memory slots... they are going to have to be BIG modules! 16GB-32 per slot!? Do they even exist yet?

basically it's going to be incredibly fast. Very small. and massively upgradeable once you get your head round ThunderBolt 2