Just thought you should know that even if iOS/MacOS had less emojis, it would not mean those emoji designers would be off designing the new Mac pro.
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Apple's Newest Mac Pro Turns Four Years Old Today
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Probably because unsuspecting visitors kept stubbing out their cigarettes and disposing their chewing gum in it.
It depends on how Apple defines "upgradeable," doesn't it. Every Apple product is upgradeable just by buying the "newest" one and that is how they like it now.They don't want the grubby little hands of their customers touching "their, meaning Apple's," stuff.
I'm afraid they only really care about the iPhone and the iPad.
As a Mac user I was happier back in the days when the iPhone wasn't their main product.
I wouldn't say they don't care if one of their product is a flop, but the don't put enough energy on the Mac anymore.
They're focused on the consumer market, especially on the iOS devices.
The Mac mini would be the perfect consumer devices, and it hasn't received an update for more than 1000 days. I mean, come on... at least put a new CPU, or cut the price or whatever. If they're income depended on the Mac they would release new products or updates much faster and frequently. Mac pro is 4 years old, they promised a new one but they're taking their time...
This comes down to the lack of a visionary. The cylindrical Mac Pro should have shared the same fate the G4 Cube did (11-month lifespan). They both were way ahead of their time to be a commercial success. Unfortunately, nobody got the balls Steve Jobs did to pull the plug.
Being a four year old computer, the Mac Pro is still a very capable machine. The slow adoption of Thunderbolt was more of a blame than thermal capacity in the 6,1 failure. Paired with an eGPU, the Mac Pro is a very good alternative to iMac Pro.
For what it is worth, I wish you were right, I agree with you. But, respectfully, you are on crack if you think Apple will produce a product with backward compatible ports for plugging in a console.
Apple has no respect or thought to the world outside of Apple products. They will not build anything to co-function with another company's product.
Apple is myopic to the world outside of Apple.
The cMP is history, it was 6 years ago and I remember when the 2012 came out I felt like come on apple is that all you can do. The trash can came out and i thought it was beautiful but removed everything I needed from my mac pro...
They aren’t interested, they don’t want a machine you can upgrade they want a machine that suits the current need and be replaced in 2-3 years. Making you buy a new device or trade in more often so they get more money from you. Which makes sense if there was incentive, like they dont cost the earth and there was innovation in the technology to make you do so.
Unfortunately were not talking sub £1000 like an ipad or iphone but a fairly heavy investment and they make no business sense to turn around in that time.
I started my career working for a large newspaper company who had moved from hot metal to digital. They bought everyone 2004 power mac G4 dual 1.25s, couple of servers to run. Cost about 100k.
I started working there in 2009 and they didnt swap them out until 2011. Thats what happens in the industry not a new machine every 3 years like people make you believe. Its even worse now because there has been very little change in chip speed, the difference is in bus speed and physical media.
Case in point my 2010 mac pro hex runs the similar numbers multi as the i7 5k imac and is 7 years its senior.
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I never needed a Mac Pro but I liked the design. A new Mac Mini please.
Your claim might actually make sense if Apple hadn’t just released an 18-core Xeon with 128GB of ECC RAM, a screaming fast 4 TB SSD, Radeon Vega64 graphics, 4 Thunderbolt 3 ports and a 10 Gbps Ethernet port. This is exactly the machine that some pros have been waiting for.
Other pros don’t want an all in one iMac Pro; they want a modular, upgradable machine with a separate monitor. That Mac Pro is still in development. Many wish it had come to market in 2013, instead of the cylinder. (But the cylinder is loved by some pros, despite the fact it doesn’t fit the needs of others.)
Apple screws up sometimes, but when they realize it, they have a pretty good track record of fixing it.
So you’d be correct to say, that with the release of the fastest Mac ever—and with an even faster, modular, upgradable Mac Pro still to come—that Apple cares more about professionals than ever before.
I'm really interested to see what the new display will look like.
If they took the Thunderbolt Display and made it 5K, added a better mic, better camera, better speakers and more ports to act as a hub since the new MacBook Pro's only have USB-C. Oh it would be perfect.
I mean, just look at it, it still looks great, even with the huge bezels. The sturdy aluminium design is still lightyears away from that new LG monstrosity.
Edit: And while you're at it, add a HDMI port. It would be great if I didn't have to use a separate display to play on a console once in a while.
Agree...also add a SD card slot like the iMac pro. I hope the new screen will also allow the current Mac Pro 2013 to be able to hook up to it. include a thunderbolt 2 option for us who have the "Trash Can". That would make up for the lack of upgradability in the current Mac Pro.
5k beauty (or even a 4K) for the current Mac Pro 2013...please...
I don't think so. It was a powerful machine for the time, the problem is that they were unable to update it with new hardware for whatever reason, and dropped the price way too late. Also overall it was released too early - it really needed thunderbolt 3 connectivity speeds to drop the internal upgradability.
My quad core i7 Mac mini is five years old today. It's sad there isn't a replacement for it available yet.
This makes me think of when VR headsets were coming out and they said they wouldn't be designing for Mac products because they weren't strong enough. I paid $700 for an upgrade and I think of Mac Pro owners who paid $3000 with zero options. There should always be options to upgrade Mac products to some degree, especially Mac Pros.
I have a 2008 model, upgraded everything in it at least twice (sans the processors) - now have SSD too... Best machine I ever had, real workhorse.
It wasn't the Mac Pro for everyone, but the engineering is pretty amazing. I like the design too, even if the internals choices weren't the best.
I don't see what that has to do with wanting a new MP? My 2012 Mac mini is running HS and I have a few laptops that are pushing 10 years old, actually one of them is going on 11 years old and they all run Windows 10 just fine even with 2GB of ram.
I'd be interested in a modular MP if it's priced right and I know for sure that Apple is not going to update the mini anymore. Unfortunately gone are the days since Steve where we had a unified voice and vision. Today Apple loves to play Good Cop/Bad Cop. You tend to get mixed messages from Apple HQ these days.
Agreed, however you should still revel that you have the best Mac Mini ever made.
We’ll see what Tim does. It seems like now that they pushed the “X,” out, they may be taking the Mac a bit more seriously.
Yeah, but that says more about your demands than it says anything about the capabilities of that machine. I also had a Quad Core Mac Pro 1,1 once. I currently have a low-end custom built machine with a quad core 2.05 GHz AMD 5350 CPU in it. And guess what? That tiny processor feels about as powerful as the Quad Xeon from that old Mac Pro. For 35 bucks it provides more than enough computing power for every day office or consumer tasks and can even compete with that ancient Mac Pro 1,1 hardware.
But that's the reason why the PC market is flatlining: Those old machines have enough bang for what most people do with them. Buy a gaming console for your gaming needs and then even an eight years old computer will suffice.
Let's face it... Apple only keeps the Macs around so that people can use Xcode and write software for iOS. And even for that job, those out-dated specs are still good enough.
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I'm not putting down wanting a new MP at all- just pointing out that almost every Mac thread has posts by those who are wanting to wait for the next upgrade or are seemingly afraid to buy now out of fear for the next new upgrade coming too soon. In this case, those who bought then dodged the sense of not being on the cutting edge for years.
Yez! Seems like they are hiring the wrong people. Less graphics, more hardware.