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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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Don't do that. You know very well that you asked if I was asking for a pro computer at "consumer" prices. No, no one offers a case like the Mac Pro. Everyone does offer pro computers at lower price points. Don't act like wanting a $2500 machine that has good thermals and expansion and doesn't saddle you with a monitor you don't need is absurd. Right now if you don't want a monitor from Apple your choices are a Mac Mini for a grand or a Mac Pro for 6 grand. There needs to be something in between.
Once it’s under the desk and out of sight, no one will care what it looks like when they can enjoy all that power.
Probably going to wait for the 2020 Ice Lake SP model. No PCIe 4.0 support for this round and I always have a policy of not buying the first-year model. Let them work out the kinks (and the price) first.
Thank god that it looks like a normal PC design, and not the proprietary crap that was rumored. I hope Apple quietly supports Nvidia adding driver support again.
This thing looks like its made to last 20 years! I love it!
Definitely not the best visual design but from usability, 9.5/10. Well done Apple.
Now if they could only build a mid-range monitor, I neither need nor want to spend $12k on two of these with stands... Overall though, I'm not going to complain, this was a very welcome hardware reveal.
Now if they could only build a mid-range monitor, I neither need nor want to spend $12k on two of these with stands... Overall though, I'm not going to complain, this was a very welcome hardware reveal.
Woo! I like.
Tempted to get one. I'm currently wondering if the CPU is modular, and you can drop in more or replacement cards in the future.
I don't like the expectation of such massive power consumption, but that's the way CPUs and GPUs are going at the moment anyway. And I guess it'll scale as needed.
Tempted to get one. I'm currently wondering if the CPU is modular, and you can drop in more or replacement cards in the future.
I don't like the expectation of such massive power consumption, but that's the way CPUs and GPUs are going at the moment anyway. And I guess it'll scale as needed.
I envy the stones it takes to tell your audience that the display price does not include the $1k stand.
I admire the stones it takes to SELL a $1K stand.
Silly me, I thought the stand was 1k to buy alone, but also came with the 6k total bundle.I envy the stones it takes to tell your audience that the display price does not include the $1k stand.
PCIe 4 is just hitting the market. Can you imagine the level of fomo knowing your $20K cheese grater can only write 2500MB/s sequential while some kid is doing 5000MB/s on his gaming PC?
It doesn't look like the CPU or the storage is modular. Typical Apple: you'll take what we give you, not what you want. And pay $6,000 for it.
OK one nitpick, maybe not the most expandable Mac ever?
A Dual CPU option would be cool instead of one 28 core CPU, but 2x 14 core CPUs running at a higher clock? Not really sure if would be true?
Yes perhaps it would be an insane amount of $, but I am sure they could sell to those how have an insane amount of $.
A Dual CPU option would be cool instead of one 28 core CPU, but 2x 14 core CPUs running at a higher clock? Not really sure if would be true?
Yes perhaps it would be an insane amount of $, but I am sure they could sell to those how have an insane amount of $.
God. Years of Pros whining about wanting nothing but a new expandable cheese grater like the classic Mac Pro. Apple listens and makes one, and now everyone is bitching about it. I swear most of you just come here to bitch.
Predictable and boring lol. You're butthurt because you were talking rubbish and got caught out. What i said is 100% FACT. Apple is just living inside its own bubble. 6k for a machine and its starting with 8 cores and 256gb ssd? LOL
Wait you don't have to buy that apple display their are showing, their is always the LG 5k monitor that will will work fine with this new system. So if you are trying to save a little money buy the unit this year and a new display next year.
No worries , Apple will have known that and are banking on you throwing your 6k pathethic spec mac Pro in the bin and coughing up another 6k
Thanks. I didn't know Apple had to control all the drivers (and I have also just learned that CUDA itself is proprietary to NVIDIA). Seems kind of crazy that Apple wouldn't want to make these beautiful machines work for the subset of people needing the data-crunching power of those GPUs. Wikipedia tells me that subset needs this power for:
- push-relabel maximum flow algorithm
- fast sort algorithms of large lists
- two-dimensional fast wavelet transform
- molecular dynamics simulations
- machine learning
So about half the price of a gardeners truck and tools.
You need to be specific about “pro” then. It sounds like you just want what I described, a desktop tower with some expansion.
And it’s fine to want that, but don’t imagine that this is the same as that. The competition for this machine is ridiculously priced HP workstations which - surprise - also have expensive, non consumer components like Xeons, ECC memory etc.