It would be better if it was not smaller so it can still fix all that expansion in it.
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Apple Working on Redesigned Mac Pro With Smaller Form Factor and Apple Silicon Chip
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I still hope Apple will fill the gap between a Mini & a Pro in the desktop space. Not everyone wants a one-piece, needs something in the iMac level of performance, but does not need the full up Pro, either.
Without bootcamp, I doubt it will be a gaming machine unless people only play Apple arcade games.
Return of the cube. You read it here first.
As part of the transition to Apple Silicon, Apple is designing a new Mac Pro that has a smaller form factor, reports Bloomberg. The new Mac Pro is said to have a design that looks like the current design, but in a more compact enclosure that's "about half the size."
It is not known if the new Mac Pro will replace the current model or will be sold alongside the current Mac Pro, which was introduced last year. From Bloomberg:The new Mac Pro is not set to come out in 2020 and will presumably be released in 2021 or 2022. Apple is planning to move all of its Macs to Apple Silicon chips instead of Intel chips, but the company expects that process to take two years.
Next week's event is expected to see Apple unveil a 13-inch MacBook Pro, a 16-inch MacBook Pro, and 13-inch MacBook Air, all of which will be equipped with Apple Silicon chips.
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Apple making workstations is like Microsoft making phones.
Without the bays to hold additional drives, people might as well buy a mini and an eGPU.
My mom still uses the first gen Intel Macbook Pro I bought in 2006....
I mean I wouldn't use it myself but it somehow still works (the battery was replaced once and the replacement was a cheap 3rd party one, I believe that one is now also dead and she mostly uses it as a 'desktop')
If this is a new model for pro-sumer‘s who don’t need a $6000+ base system but something closer to previous Mac Pro’s then this news will have made my day!
I still think there is room for just a Mac. Between the Mac mini and the MacPro. Shoot for MacBook Pro 13" type of processing with room for drive and memory upgrades. Priced at about $1,000.
I am of two minds on this. I really wish I hadn't bought a Mac Pro because its a dead end already. But otherwise I love my Mac Pro - there's nothing that exists today that I'd want instead.
‘Half the size, double the price !
The new Mac Pro with Apple Silicon’
- Tim Cook (probably)
The new Mac Pro with Apple Silicon’
- Tim Cook (probably)
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Now, who the actually frack ASKED for a smaller form factor??
Given that 99.7 percent of businesses in the US are small to medium-sized, maybe Apple will finally focus on that market instead of enterprises. Or the huge freelance market. Whilst they're at it, release a non-6K version of the Pro XDR display.
What are you kidding me? I thought the same thing word by word.
This made me LOL 🤣, but I think at most they'll take off only one wheel and leave it like a rollerblade with three wheels in a straight line.
It would be the Mac Pro mini. The Mac mini Pro would look like a bigger Mac mini, would have better specs but no slots or internal expansion.
more like half the size, double the cost...
A smaller form factor means no room for expansion, so more than happy I bought the 2019 model for GPU rendering.