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Apple's Newest Mac Pro Turns Five Years Old Today
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I still use my cheese grater 2011. Rick solid and tackle all motion graphics heavy lifting.
It’s just one sec slower on MR Photoshop test comparing to the latest MP.
Sure the IO tech is old now but I love the machine.
Apple just failed over thinking and under delivering the MP.
What I’m really interested is the upcoming monitors. I hope they will be rock solid so I can finally retire my ACDs that still rock by the way.
It’s just one sec slower on MR Photoshop test comparing to the latest MP.
Sure the IO tech is old now but I love the machine.
Apple just failed over thinking and under delivering the MP.
What I’m really interested is the upcoming monitors. I hope they will be rock solid so I can finally retire my ACDs that still rock by the way.
Since Apple loves to design products that need lots of things hanging off them to do anything, I would have to agree that a Mac Mini with lots of things hanging off it, along with a giant bread-box eGPU is just what they will do.
God forbid they design a box that houses everything INSIDE and uses a power cord only with some sort of cool wireless 4K display tech.
What this video clearly shows is that the design of the Mac mini is absolutely solid; but someone needs to yell at the Contract Manufacturer!
Thanks for showing that the Mac mini (offtopic) is actually a very successful thermal design. But it does seem that Apple needs to get on Foxconn's back and show them how to apply thermal paste properly...
I kind of wish they design their Mac Pro with Rack in mind, so it could be used for Servers. There are huge ( comparatively speaking ) demand for Mac Servers for all sort of VM and testing. Mac Pro should be a much better fit than Mac mini.
I also wish Apple no longer have upgrade pricing that put off the pros. Make the Pro Machine Expensive and Config that comes with the highest possible spec. Starts from 32GB Memory, ( The Non Pro Mac really needs to up their baseline to 16GB ) 512GB SSD, 16 Core CPU and Decent GPU. ( Please Let it be a 7nm GPU )
I also wish Apple no longer have upgrade pricing that put off the pros. Make the Pro Machine Expensive and Config that comes with the highest possible spec. Starts from 32GB Memory, ( The Non Pro Mac really needs to up their baseline to 16GB ) 512GB SSD, 16 Core CPU and Decent GPU. ( Please Let it be a 7nm GPU )
I prefer iPad's to Mac's, but I am still seeing this as a super niche device for most. Does the iMac Pro not handle tasks as efficiently as a new Mac Pro would?
Yes. A year after going back to the drawing board is "rushing it" for a new product design. It's actually probably pretty close to done now, and has started the long process of going through Agency Approvals in a bunch of different countries.
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That's like "So when did you stop beating your wife?" It's a question specifically and disingenuously designed to have no "good answer".
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I know, I know. Apple would have been oh so much more successful with you at the helm!
And yet, PC manufacturers come out with new models every year. What is it that you think Apple needs 5 years to "get right"?
In case you weren't noticing, most people here would be happy with something that isn't designed more for an art museum than someones desk. It's not rocket science to design together the latest technology into something that "just works".
And you really think that after waiting (more than 5 years) that Apple's newest Mac Pro (with prices starting at $3000) will attract MILLIONS of new buyers? HAHAHAHA!!!!
I have absolutely no idea at what point Apple became clueless and tried reinventing the Mac Pro wheel. If it’s not broken, don’t fix it. I wouldn’t mind a slight, modernized revision to the cheese grater design to bring it more current, all while leaving the inside mostly the same. That’s all they should have done. And this BS they have going on with NVIDIA is also annoying. I fear Apple’s heads may be lodged so far up their arses that there’s no hope of them being able to remove them at this point. I’m afraid of what “modular” means to them. The cheese grater was plenty modular. My fear is their use of “modular” in some chic “new Apple” sense in which they try to reinvent the wheel again. The trash can was a travesty. Apple has all the talent they need to be big in the pro market, but they’re so blindly pre-occupied with the mobile market that it’s all they seem to care about now. They could give Google a run for their money if they offered an alternative to Chromebooks for education ... but it seems apparent all they care about is money and less about changing the world the way Jobs always envisioned it. Apple makes a lot of money, but Apple’s potential for various markets is being wasted and unused.
Stop it!
No forum cred for you with talk like that. You need to whine-n-moan dissing Apple with backhanded juvenile burns. Watching old reruns of That '70s Show will help get you up to speed.
Seriously...owning two MacPros (a 2006 and a 2009), I'm looking forward to seeing what Apple releases next year. Have a feeling I'll be purchasing one if it looks good.
That's where you're mistaken: "PC" manufacturers haven't come out with a truly new model since the early 1990s!!! They just keep putting the same old Intel reference designs into new metal/plastic and call it "New".
Yeah, that's "engineering", all right...
The old Mac Pro was as close to perfection as you’re going to get in a PC chassis. All pro desktop Mac’s from the first Bondi Blue G3 through the Mac Pro had crucial QOL improvements to the innards, including exterior handles. You could fold down the door and get at crucial components. Swapping out a drive was relatively simple, because they slid in and out. Apple did some idiotic things to make it more difficult to pop in your own third party components at times, but the serviceability and utility of these were fantastic.
Then came along the insecurity of not being innovative. iOS7, this Mac Pro, etc. iOS 7 was undeniably not ready for prime time and less usable. It has a nicer veneer, but it took many iterations of iOS to fix it. I hope the Mac Pro does not suffer the same fate. The Mac Pro is a cramped, unexpandable design that is surely one of the largest blunders in the Pro space they have ever made. It was an interesting concept design, but lacked nearly all the features a Pro would want.
Then came along the insecurity of not being innovative. iOS7, this Mac Pro, etc. iOS 7 was undeniably not ready for prime time and less usable. It has a nicer veneer, but it took many iterations of iOS to fix it. I hope the Mac Pro does not suffer the same fate. The Mac Pro is a cramped, unexpandable design that is surely one of the largest blunders in the Pro space they have ever made. It was an interesting concept design, but lacked nearly all the features a Pro would want.
Individual components have gone through innovation, but the basic motherboard, power, and PCI slot interface has remained. Some case manufacturers have created fantastic and usable cases like Apple had. I have one. The M2 interface for SSD storage is another innovation. I do get your overall point, though. Not trying to trash it. The innovation isn’t anywhere near the pace it used to be.
Please explain what you NEED that PC manufacturers aren't giving you? What is a new PC missing? MILLIONS and MILLIONS are getting Pro work done every day using PC's. High end PC's too, with latest tech.
So you're more about something that took 5 years to engineer than something that you can buy now, does what you need, is the latest and greatest technology, can be upgraded whenever you need more capacity or power, and in general looks pretty good?
I'm truly confused what you're wanting or missing...
And Pros would be ecstatic if Apple did that is the point ...
The cheesegrater mac pro was such a thing of beauty. Opening the side door and seeing clean organization of actual non-soldered parts. Those were the days.
Actually, the "innovation" is exactly the same pace as it ever was for those guys!
It's not even about innovation at this point. People just want something that isn't 5 years old tech. Current tech in an expandable box that runs macOS. No innovation needed. Really.