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Apple Spokesperson Confirms New Mac Pro Designs Likely Coming in 2013 [Update: Not iMac]

Nostromo said:
I am wondering about the inner workings of Apple.

Was it Jobs who wanted a gadget company and decided to ax the Mac Pro and the 17" MBP?
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I agree with you and I'm wondering about the workings of Apple too. Why would Jobs want to axe the 17"?

Funny how the photo I took of a glossy 17" MBP was at the time the latest and greatest. How times change eh? XD

gglockner said:
I call BS on this story. Nobody in sales says "don't buy our products today because we have better ones coming out tomorrow." Tom Cook would not be doing his duties as an officer of the company if he said that.
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True, if they had this planned; they should of mentioned something at WWDC. Hmmmmm.
 
myca said:
We've had a hexacore on order for a few weeks, and this new *cough* update *cough* has saved us £500, which is nice.

If it was't for the fact that we need a Pro Tools HD rig we would have waited.

Very interested to see what a re-design of the Mac Pro will bring, as I still maintain that it is one of Apples best designed computers, a truly solid blend of form and function for a company that can at times be guilty of form over function.

Good of them to actually say that proper updates are on their way, and I wish they would be more open and transparent with professional users on a permanent basis, as it would then give us more confidence in the platform, and not have us worrying about having to jump ship.
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Are you guys working with the TDM or the HDX? I'm right behind you in the plunge to upgrade my Pro Tools HD TDM Rig. :D
 
Kid A said:
Yes, Macrumors changing a recommendation on a $2500+ machine to "DON'T BUY" proves unequivocally, once and for all, that they are "in the pocket" of Apple. :rolleyes: Sound logic!
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Users requested that they change their recommendation. I am one of those users. Look around. You will find many more of us. It was the right thing to do.
 
This was clearly a "caught with your pants down" moment for Apple. They thought we would fall for the "new" tag?

Tell us that there is no update this year, but a price decrease to better reflect market realities, and you could keep selling the 2010 MP to people who need them.

This mess where they aren't updated, and the price is the same for 3 years is just not going to cut it.

Another MP 2008 octo owner happy to have made the last truly good mac tower purchase. I thought I would be jealous within a year or two after putting 3K down on the 2008, but it's been 4 solid years and nothing worth upgrading has happened yet (except 3rd party graphics, of course)
 
mozumder said:
No. The people that need the machine are going to buy it anyways.

BTW next year we should see 4k Retina Cinema Displays. It's part of the reason why they're not updating the Mac Pros this year.
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I won't. I need a new Mac Pro and I'll be waiting one more year. I can keep using my current Mac Pro another year as most of the other Mac Pro users.
 
My late 2009 iMac will last one more year then...
AAPL recent products unveiling did not provide us with anything cool, I hope this is not good predictor that iPhone 5 would be crap
At least, Samsung galaxy Note 2 has been announced via leaks for end of this year. One of these two will be my next phone...
 
iBug2 said:
I won't. I need a new Mac Pro and I'll be waiting one more year. I can keep using my current Mac Pro another year as most of the other Mac Pro users.
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Doesn't change the fact that Apple are dropping Pro users pretty much.
 
Liquinn said:
True, if they had this planned; they should of mentioned something at WWDC. Hmmmmm.
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No they didn't. After all they did "update" the Mac Pro. When have you seen Apple actually come out and say that they'll have a redesign next year?

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Liquinn said:
Doesn't change the fact that Apple are dropping Pro users pretty much.
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I'm not feeling that at all, as a pro user. And the numbers say that Apple is gaining more and more pro users every day.
 
iBug2 said:
No they didn't. After all they did "update" the Mac Pro. When have you seen Apple actually come out and say that they'll have a redesign next year?
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True, they haven't officially said anything. Though no USB 3 or Thunderbolt sucks.

I thought a spec bump wasn't classed as an update?
 
Flood123 said:
Users requested that they change their recommendation. I am one of those users. Look around. You will find many more of us. It was the right thing to do.
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Ummm.... yeah.... i looked around... i know... i saw... i was... being... sarcastic.

I was sarcasticly retorting the person who accused MR of being in Apple's pocket. We're on the same page here.
 
iBug2 said:
Then Apple was un-Apple until early 2000's. These broadcast professionals weren't using Macs until that time because Apple never had decent hardware and software for that until then.
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Well, Steve Jobs came back in 1998 and it took some time to get some cash from the masses with the iMac in order to focus on more professional stuff - so we could agree.
 
DTphonehome said:
Well, there goes the sales for the rest of 2012. Someone at Apple should look up "The Osbourne Effect" on Wikipedia. Guess they had to announce something due to the backlash.
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This is probably the best executive team in several metrics in the world right now. I'm sure they're fully aware of the Osborne effect. Through my admittedly rose colored glasses, I read this as saying something to the effect of,

I know we've had this on the back burner. We aren't going to abandon you, and you're in the pipeline. As a gesture of how dedicated we are to you, we will freely and publicly reassure you, fully knowing it will delay the purchase of a good chuck of sales of our newly updated model.

Also know, this public reassurance will cost them millions. That's how important the pro demographic is.

My 2009 MacPro is still a raging ape (a beast), and hosts a bunch of VMs and is my primary desktop workstation.
 
Liquinn said:
True, they haven't officially said anything. Though no USB 3 or Thunderbolt sucks.

I thought a spec bump wasn't classed as an update?
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That's why I said "update" in quotation marks. To me, that's not an update. But on paper, it's an update.
 
iBug2 said:
Still they didn't have to do that.
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I agree with you. They don't have to, but they did. I think it would be a tad misleading and highly inappropriate to leave it as a refreshed product. This was not an update and should not be represented as one. Apple understood that after having their *** chewed out by angry users so they removed new. Makes sense to me. Chalk it up to a difference of opinion.
 
Maybe Apple realized that the Mac Pro isn't as good as it should be, since not only is it super expensive, but it's also always lagging behind with upgrades and there isn't much choice of 3rd party graphics cards available.

What if the 2013 redesign will make it cheaper and more upgradeable? Hope this will be something really cool!

As for the iMac, it has always been a great machine so I'm not worried about it.
 
To be honest, i can see why the mac pro hasn't been updated for so long. Its an incredible design, For a computer to last this long and still be considered one of the fastest desktops on the market, is quite an accomplishment.

Be interesting to see how they improve it though.
 
2013? I feel so sorry for people who want to believe this crap, who have to believe this crap, who are holding on to some kind of thin thread while they dangle over bubbling lava.

The South (CSA) will not likely rise again, Jesus will not likely come back, France will not likely be a major world power again and Apple, the company that just cancelled the pro-size MBP and who apparently cannot even use a modern HDD in the "new" MP will not likely ship a modern Mac Pro in 2013 after three years of neglect.

That's just the way it is.
 
Well, you can look at it this way: Apple seems to be talking about redesigns, not spec bumps. We may yet see an updated iMac and Mac Pro between then and now, just a spec bump in the existing case, which is fine. Then next year they do something fancy for a Retina iMac and do something new with the old cheesegrater Mac Pro case.
 
Apple taking away the "NEW" badge from the Mac Pro in the Apple online store is huge. This is a clear admission they made a mistake.
 
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