I just wish they had introduced a version with consumer level but still crazy powerful processors and graphics. Remember when a G5 could be had for $15000 at the high end or $1500 at the low end? I miss that $2500 configuration.
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Apple Reveals All-New Mac Pro With Up to 28-Core Processor and 1.5TB of RAM, Starting at $5,999
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I know, man, they finally step up and now people are bitching about the way it looks. Holy hell, you're not going to mount it above your fireplace, are you?
I pity the poor spouses of this whining bunch.
Well, my initial thought is that it has the looks that only a mother could love! It might grow on me, but the place for this is definitely UNDER the desk! Was it just me or was there an audible gasp when the monitor stand was announced as being $999?!!! At first glance, as expandable as it is, there is still a lot of proprietary elements in there.
Yeah leaves a huge price gap between it and even an imac pro.
Yeah sadly I don't think my clients pay me enough to justify this gear. Shame there isn't anything headless at a price point between a mac mini and this!
Design of monitor and workstation is horrible (like cheap Taiwan design from Lian Li)!!! Awful!!! Regarding workstation 256 GB SSD capacity is a joke for this price (I paid half of that in Dell Premier for T5820 with 10-core Xeon W-2133 with 64GB ECC DDR4 and 1TB SSD PCIe NVMe; need to highlighted that CPU L2/L3 cache memory is shared for all cores so before buying workstation I suggest to calculate L2/L3 memory cache per core, keep in mind that performance is limited also by TDP (heatsink is shared for all cores so it is a thermal bottleneck), calculate cost of core (for some Xeons you can get $xxx discount).
P.S. I asked Siri about Tim Cook and she got me an answer. When I asked her about Steve Jobs she redirected me to Wikipedia. It tells more than words about Apple today.
P.S. I asked Siri about Tim Cook and she got me an answer. When I asked her about Steve Jobs she redirected me to Wikipedia. It tells more than words about Apple today.
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Love all the complaining here. No matter what Apple did the same people would complain. Even if it was free they’d complain no one is paying them to use it.
What a lot of these people don’t understand is that DIY is not reliable especially for high end workflows. Try doing a dell or HP, apple is actually well priced. DIY is not the competition. It’s HP z4 etc.
Not exactly. You’ve conflated two different things. The 300 watts (and heatsink” refers to the amount of power available to the cpu. The full system power is 1.4kw.
Because it remains practical.
As to the stand, is that not for an alternative and optional stand? Yes it’s expensive for a stand but I’m sure the screen comes with a ‘basic’ stand.
Yeah who needs even MORE dongles. Sheesh, that's what we should be moving away from.
I guess this is the Mac Pro “pro”. These days, the iMac Pro tackles the lower end of the power hungry market.
It’s the most beautiful Mac I’ve ever seen. Gorgeous industrial design.
How do Samsung and other companies do water proofing while keeping the headphone jack? It was never about anything other than removing something they can’t license or make money off of.
Oh come on with the SSD gouging. $5999 base with a 256G SSD is insulting.
$6K system with 32GB RAM, 256 SSD and no stand for your $6K monitor. Not sure I should laugh or cry...
Apparently, professionals aren't supposed to care about how something looks and especially not how much it costs. So maybe professionals are professional athletes, and not software developers, artists, video editors, designers, and so on.
That's an extreme (and untrue statement). Just because you might need CUDA and many others (including myself) need CUDA doesn't mean everyone does. Most people are not using CUDA. I would love an option with NVIDIA (and that will prevent me from buying this) but Radeon GPUs are great. If you're doing video and photo (and gaming), they are solid. Applications like Blender (just an example) offer OpenCL acceleration in addition to CUDA (yes, I know OpenCL tends to be a little slower). One downside to CUDA is it is proprietary. It's great and some of the research tools I use can have CUDA acceleration but this isn't really for the small subset of people who must have CUDA.
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Honestly I want to cry.
I was thinking in spending $6k for a display and MP. Now the entry level will set you back $11k plus taxes. Damn...
I guess I will just max out my current 2011 MP cheese grater and hang for another couple of years. What a shame.
I think the design is very unique. The grill vent openings are specifically designed to dissipate as much heat as possible by having as much surface space as possible. It's not form over function, but they ensured that it looks good, too. I take it that you don't like the appearance?
You can buy high end VESA mounts or stands for $100 and good ones for <$70. Sure that's an extra cost but it's cheaper than what Apple would have charged with a stand (considering they are charing a ridiculous $1000).
Gratzie...had to correct the initial post earlier because I read 300W and thought that it seemed underpowered