To be a fly on the wall during all the internal debates and discussion over this... Can only imagine the internal politics surrounding it all.
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Apple Says All-New Modular Mac Pro With Apple-Branded High-End Pro Display Coming After 2017
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Yes, it does. Very.
Although I’m sure my smile will turn back into a frown when I see the +£4000 price tag for the base model.
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“We certainly see, as I know you do, a wide spectrum of views expressed in Internet forums about all things, including our products. I think it’s not entirely unreasonable and it’s understandable that some people who love their Macs so much and see something new that Apple is talking about in the form of iPad, creating in some of them a sense of insecurity: “What does this mean? There’s thing I really care about, I don’t want to see it go away, I see this other new thing on the scene, what does this mean to me, what does this mean to the product I love?” So I understand how that would come out in the form of concern that this is happening, but this is not happening. The Mac is — we say it over and over, we’re saying it again here — a huge part of our future, we’re deeply invested in it.”
Actually I think those users will like that they got a very nice looking machine. They won't get a chance to buy a beauty like that again.
AND!!!
What kind of announcement was that.
Here's a 'bone'. Oh, but if you can wait, there is an even bigger and juicier bone that you can have sometime like maybe possibly assuredly maybe next year or maybe the year after or something but when it gets here if it does it's going to be GLORIOUS!!!
Huh? What? Really?
What kind of announcement was that.
Here's a 'bone'. Oh, but if you can wait, there is an even bigger and juicier bone that you can have sometime like maybe possibly assuredly maybe next year or maybe the year after or something but when it gets here if it does it's going to be GLORIOUS!!!
Huh? What? Really?
Or whining about the whining ………….Hopefully now we will have a week or two without passive aggressive comments about Apple forgetting they do computers
They never said they were getting out of display business. Some of us pointed out at the time that was just bloggers take. The same goes for the rumor monger who say they are out of router business, standby!
Price cut..its true but ..OMG crazy pricing still..
Too bad they just ceded the mini market to Hp and others..they could just spec bump those and clean up
but no ;(
"Apple doesn't care about the Mac"
The only newer one is Polaris and Vega. Those GPUs are still perfectly capable as far as pro GPUs go.
Capable melting down when you push them.
Is the CEO in process of leaving Apple? I'm asking this question because this is perhaps the only worthy comment made by Apple these years.
http://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/mac-pro
Quad-Core and Dual GPU
If the modular design is true, I would be very pleased. Now do the same with the MBP and let me update Ram and SSD and I'll be back on board.
Quad-Core and Dual GPU
- 3.7GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon E5 processor
- 12GB 1866MHz DDR3 ECC memory
- Dual AMD FirePro D300
with 2GB GDDR5 VRAM each - 256GB PCIe-based flash storage1
If the modular design is true, I would be very pleased. Now do the same with the MBP and let me update Ram and SSD and I'll be back on board.
To Me, this is the intriguing part: "As part of doing a new Mac Pro -- it is, by definition, a modular system"
What would you have preferred they had said, or not said?
Amazing. They apologized multiple times, were completely up front and transparent about the whole situation, admitted they screwed up with the cylindrical Mac Pro design, explained about future products in the coming 6-12 months (which they never do) and people still complain. LOL only on MacRumors.....
Which I don't get. Why limit themselves to Iris? None of the Intel GPU's are decent for anything anyways, so what do they get out of the Iris they don't get out of teh non-iris variants? These integrated GPU's aren't good for GPU Compute. They're useless for gaming (even Iris), so at this point it's for desktop display purposes, and ANY of the non-iris GPU's will do it the same.
saying "we can't provide quadcore on the mac mini because the Iris GPU is onlyon the dual cores" is absolutely a excuse to not provide an ideal combination.
it's like the moron Computer buyers at my work who keep buying i7's, but with 4gb of ram. because "savings", not realizing that if they bought the i5 with 8gb of ram instead, performance will overall be better (we don't need i7's)
it's focus on the wrong area and then using that wrong area as an excuse not to deliver where it matters
Already found a leaked photo.
T: J. what are you complaining about ?
J: O man, my trash is so full - I can't add anything anymore. We have about 200 designs that I reject on a daily basis, so I need some serious capacity now.
T: But I see you're trying to deposit papers in a MacPro, which is full of electronic components...!?
J: Jee, man. As you say it: Indeed I've got a smoky smell around over the last weeks, it seems to be digesting paper in a very slow manner...
T: Maybe you forgot you had designed it that way.
J: Indeed. We never design anything to be a trash, except almost everything ?
T: Right.
J: OK, then let's make a final version that the market will recognise as such because it is what it looks like. Form follows function !!
T: Sure, man. As long as it's expensive.
There must be a Chinese warehouse with truckloads of these frames. Put last year's chip on the motherboard to advance it 5 years in history.
P. will refurb anything that has enough margin on it - including his ass...
T: So, proven design as only Apple can do. Ohh - I am getting soo excited !
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At least the incessant whining can stop.
No, those are gimmick products. No one should ever setup a network that way.
Guys, keep in mind that "modular" doesn't mean you can buy components via Newegg and update the 7,1 yourself. It means Apple can update it more often/easier.
Improve QC. Apple does not need to invest in and take on manufacturing Apple branded displays, which they will not be able to update as often as the rest of the industry, just look at the state of the Mac.