It's alive! I'll be grabbing one of the new ones as a server (I need the Raid + 4 Hard drive bays) YAY
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Apple Pulls Mac Pro Stocks from Most Retail Stores Ahead of WWDC
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It's alive! I'll be grabbing one of the new ones as a server (I need the Raid + 4 Hard drive bays) YAY
I'm praying for something "blade like".. Or at least a blade version. Very disappointed that the xServe was killed. Relying on a Mac Mini for servers is not the best option, not even by a long shot.
Apple have to have a high end machine...Do you really think that they are going to just roll over and give that part of the business away to Microsoft?
An imac is a nice machine - but it's still using mobile Technology. The Mac pro's are magnitudes of times faster at rendering video / 3d etc.
Also they have to design the next generation of iDevices / iMac's etc.
Create 3D for the iOS games etc
Run Final Cut X - They only recently added RED support... that is only going to run on a high end MacPro
An imac is a nice machine - but it's still using mobile Technology. The Mac pro's are magnitudes of times faster at rendering video / 3d etc.
Also they have to design the next generation of iDevices / iMac's etc.
Create 3D for the iOS games etc
Run Final Cut X - They only recently added RED support... that is only going to run on a high end MacPro
About time...
...to either pull the plug on old machines and/or get some new ones in. Hopefully, the new one has some good components to base Hackintoshs on. Don't get me wrong: If I would have the money, I would buy the real thing but if I can build an as-powerfull-as-MacPro machine for less than half, I do rather that. Private use only anyways.
...to either pull the plug on old machines and/or get some new ones in. Hopefully, the new one has some good components to base Hackintoshs on. Don't get me wrong: If I would have the money, I would buy the real thing but if I can build an as-powerfull-as-MacPro machine for less than half, I do rather that. Private use only anyways.
I think it's staying. I think you'll see something vastly different in design from them...with the advances in technology the last 4 years, and how the MacPro hasn't been updated in look in ages, something major is coming in design changes for it...most likely smaller, slimmer and sleeker along with some serious weight drop and probably more affordable.
Well, now that SJ is gone, I can ASSURE you that the fabled xMac is finally arriving:
- minitower design;
- two of three PCI slots;
- no monitor included.
- minitower design;
- two of three PCI slots;
- no monitor included.
I don't believe the Mac Pro is anywhere near dead.
However I think the Mac Pro's days in the Apple retail stores is over. It's a truck after all
If that is a truck, a rumored iTV would be? Bulldozer?
Obviously the Mac Pro is not ideally suited for everyone, but off the top of my head...
Server/workstation-grade CPUs, multiple disks, multiple cards without needing over-priced cables that could get pulled out or knocked over, easier to secure in professional environments, high-end performance (i.e. > Mac Mini) with your own choice of display(s)...
Admittedly you can get around some of those things with thunderbolt, but not all of them, and not really in a way that Apple already provide for with their other machines. Like they could offer even higher-end CPUs for the Macbook Pros, or Minis or iMacs, but I don't think they will... they could say everything 's do-able via thunderbolt and people might say ... 'sure, but I don't want to have to think about all that... I want to stick it in the machine and have a Thunderbolt port or two free for if I need that, that's the whole point of a Mac Pro really, to have the ability to adapt later as per requirements, not buy a cobbled-together solution that is any kind of work-around.
That said, I think the option of the 'xMac' type prosumer minitower would be an awesome machine to have.
I have a 2010 Mac Pro, and am in no need of upgrading anytime soon, I just want the option to exist when it comes time to do so, and I'm sure there are people who have been hanging on for a new Mac Pro for ages.
Personally I don't think we'll see anything radical. USB 3.0, new CPUs/graphics cards, a couple of thunderbolt ports. That's all they need to do really.
They'll probably be available online the same day as the keynote. This is talking about retail stores. If they shipped them to stores before the keynote there'd be a pretty big chance of information leaking.
people want the option of using BD or such media. in a pro machine it isn't time to do away with.
Having the bays to add your own... is a necessity for many people
You know, you raise an interesting point. I remember last year there was a rumour about a completely new Mac product being introduced. Maybe it could actually happen this time.
New MP?
Will be 1/2 the size and more powerful. Bob and his engineers have been busy in the back room. Will run iOS 6 if you desire.
Will be 1/2 the size and more powerful. Bob and his engineers have been busy in the back room. Will run iOS 6 if you desire.