Apple Working on Two New Mac Pro Desktops, One of Which Will Be Reminiscent of Power Mac G4 Cube

[pmiles]

Deja vu comes to mind here as I swear this "rumor" has been said before on this very site even... recycled rumors hosted on a different site doesn't make it new.

Apple Tiles have been rumored again and again and again and again and again.... and yet, every other company on the planet seems to have managed to actually deliver a similar product already.

Come on... you have no real news, so you dig through some old posts on the inter webs and resurrect it as being new news. Bloomberg apparently poached from this site and now you are poaching from theirs.

 

[The Samurai]

Macrumours is finally back to... Macrumours

 

[weaztek]

The Cube actually had a pretty cool industrial design. It was one of the first Mac designs to be fanless and cooled by convection. Unfortunately, it had other problems and didn't sell well. A revised version should be a whole different story.

Why would they keep intel over mac silicon?

I can imagine someone wanting to buy one last Intel powerhouse if they have a significant software purchase they want to keep running for as long as possible.

 

[az431]

Why would they keep intel over mac silicon?

They wouldn't?

 

[Zdigital2015]

The Mac Mini should be the size of an Apple TV. But I am all for an ITX Mac Pro with room for a 3090 to breath.

There aren’t going to be any NVIDIA GPUs in any Macs, anymore. Apple and NVIDIA are competitors and NVIDIA is a horrible partner. Let it go.

 

[Mike_Trivisonno]

I will definitely buy one of these.

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

Please remove the stupid wheels

 

[R3k]

A 5.25" bay for an optional internal optical drive would make it perfect, but I know that's a pipe dream.

The 90’s just called, they want their pipe dream back.

 

[az431]

Intel but no 32-Bit support.

Can't have everything.

32-bit support? Are you planning to spec that out with a floppy drive and a parallel printer port?

 

[R3k]

Not feeling so bad having a 2019 MP machine rn.

 

[themachugger]

Having seen the current performance of M1 chips even running emulation, no Mac user in their right mind would buy a new Mac with Intel silicon moving forward. The only reason current Mac Pro$$$$$ are still a consideration is because of expandability and RAM. If the new Mac Pros make that a non-issue, it's game over for an Intel-chipped Pro.

 

[JPack]

Why would they keep intel over mac silicon?

99% because of graphics.

Nothing rivals a Radeon or GeForce at the moment.

In terms of CPU performance, it's obvious Apple Silicon will beat up any Xeon in the near future.

 

[timber]

So the rumor is Apple is designing an all new form factor (a rather thermal deprived one...) and they are sticking an intel inside.

Makes a lot of sense. Not.

 

[InuNacho]

32-bit support? Are you planning to spec that out with a floppy drive and a parallel printer port?

Not everyone live in the Magic iLand where all software and hardware is entirely supplied by Apple.

 

[JPack]

So the rumor is Apple is designing an all new form factor (a rather thermal deprived one...) and they are sticking an intel inside.

Makes a lot of sense. Not.

You need to read. Carefully.

 

[SWAON]

2021 is the Apple comeback. We get the goodies we expected last year..

 

[Zen_Arcade]

That’d be awesome!

(Depending on the actual configs.)

 

[Apple Knowledge Navigator]

The 15th January 2021 will be a day long remembered.

 

[Rudy69]

How much are the wheels?

If you have to ask you can't afford them

 

[4jasontv]

There aren’t going to be any NVIDIA GPUs in any Macs, anymore. Apple and NVIDIA are competitors and NVIDIA is a horrible partner. Let it go.

Well they make the best products in their class so I see no reason to not keep asking for it. I wouldn't use anything else in my PC.

 

[Darth Tulhu]

OK, they need to slow down with these rumors or me and my wallet are going to have a heart attack.

 

[SWAON]

Seriously though, I want real mac mini in the size of Apple TV so I can have mobile desktop around!

 

[timber]

You need to read. Carefully.

Ya, I do.

Still, don't think it makes a lot of sense. But could happen unlike what I came up with.

 

[Naraxus]

The Cube was an abysmal failure from day one. Hopefully they've learned their lesson

 

[DogGone]

The Mac mini is the replacement for the cube and obviously has been very successful.
I like the idea of just a “Mac”. For regular people who want a desktop that they can modify. 20 years ago I had a G4 tower. Lots of fun playing around with it. Added drives, upgraded the ram and processor over almost 8 years. Finally replaced it with a Mac mini and lately with a old MBP.
still it would be fun to have a small tower to play with.