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Apple Planning 'Something Really Different' for New Mac Pro

I don't understand how those two reports corroborate each other. One is a guy who says that video card expandability is at the top of his list, and the product manager saying he's going to be really happy with it.

The other report says there's going to be no internal expandability.

Unless it's external video card expandability?
 
MacRumors said:
Somewhat corroborating Baird's phone call, Lou Borella -- administrator of the 'We Want a New Macpro' Facebook group -- wrote on the page that he heard the new professional Mac would be "heavily reliant on Thunderbolt" with "no internal expandability", and would have support for dual-GPU's and no FireWire or optical drive.
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So the new Mac Pro is a Mac mini! LOL!

Will they call it the "Mac mini Pro" or "Mac Pro mini"?
 
and yet no Logic X Pro to run on it...

my guess is distributed cube computing
need more horsepower add a couple more nodes
 
Arggg2010 said:
All good news, but I think we can realistically say that this will be the last upgrade before it's killed off.
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I don't think they would be investing the resources to redesign it if they were going to kill it off.

I expect it to be a workstation that has somewhat broader appeal than the existing tower.

I don't expect it at WWDC. We haven't seen any component or part number leaks. Then again, maybe moving production to the US has given Apple better secrecy.
 
Boris A said:
Sounds like a small powerful machine with support for external GPUs and HDDs via Thunderbolt.
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Going to show how under-studied I am on the topic of Thunderbolt, but is it able to support an externally housed GPU?
 
Arggg2010 said:
All good news, but I think we can realistically say that this will be the last upgrade before it's killed off.
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Not if Apple is investing all this time and energy into it. I think a new Mac Pro like this will have a good life span... as long as it sells.
 
It's going to be available in white and the side panel will be replaced with a smart cover for easy access. :D
 
bring it on!
Also it would be better if Apple introduce a mini tower which improves over harddisk and graphics of mac mini (no laptop parts, all desktop computing), but at same price. we could call it Mac Mini Pro.
 
Tomorrow said:
A nice surprise would be a reasonable price for a new Mac Pro.
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Not really because it would be a sign the world is ending. :D

And even if it was reasonably priced, whatever that means... we all have our limits, it could still be a world ending event anyway because developers especially are resistant to change. Something "all new" might be more than they can handle.

Personally, Apple can rip out optical, it's a dinosaur. Replace a couple HD bays for SSD bays while they are at it. Shrink that sucker down but still make it heavily user upgradable and expandable. I'm all in.

sfwalter said:
I don't have anything to base it on. However I have a feeling that we won't be getting a new Mac Pro at WWDC.
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Maybe. But if not I think Apple owes Pros a sneak peak just as a good will gesture. Pro aren't buying many MPs these days anyway because they all know new in near so its not like they are going to lose sales.
 
In keeping with the feminine hygiene product theme it will be called the Mac Maxi
 
I'm getting the uneasy feeling that somehow it's not going to have PCI slots.

Or only two or your dual graphics cards.

...And it will be thinner.

Crap...
 
Oh no

"Somewhat corroborating Baird's phone call, Lou Borella -- administrator of the 'We Want a New Macpro' Facebook group -- wrote on the page that he heard the new professional Mac would be "heavily reliant on Thunderbolt" with "no internal expandability", and would have support for dual-GPU's and no FireWire or optical drive."

Looks like they are going to **** it up. No internal expandability and no optical drive. Yea, that's a real pro level machine right there! :(
 
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samcraig said:
There's very little in way of a tower that will be "really" different. Seriously. Sounds like an overhype.
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Can we quote you and laugh at you if they do release something really different:p;)

Here's my wild prediction:

The "Mac Pro" isn't a single desktop machine at all. Instead it comes in a series of modular units what connect together via thunderbolt (hopefully, they click together like lego).

You pick a CPU module, a "base" module (w/the basic platform: mobo, power supply, 1 drive bay), one or more graphics card modules, extra storage modules, etc. You might even be able to click multiple machines together that with automatically configure themselves into a grid.
 
Invisible Elf said:
New Mac Pro is going to be a standalone thunderbolt device with integrated gpu's, memory etc, and is going to require another mac to function. You heard it here first guys
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While it would be interesting to plug-in a "Mac Pro" module into an iMac via Thunderbolt, I don't see how this would happen. Thunderbolt doesn't have enough bandwidth to add additional CPUs.

Mac Pros *have* to have >4 hyperthreaded cores. A single iMac i7 isn't going to cut it.
 
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