Actully not mutch of news at all! Moste of us here allredy knew new desktop mac's is on it's way the BIG question is WHEN!?
Soon. In 2015
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Boot Camp Files Hint at New Mac Pro and iMac Models [Updated]
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Soon. In 2015
Believe it. I'm running Lion not because I like the lack of useful features & the removal of older useful features, but because My set up of Parallels Desktop for the Mac is running better than the one I have running on Snow Leopard. As expected Windows is now ruling the Mac.
For a company that claims not to be maximizing their profits it seems strange that they could not have actually updated the Mac Pro. What they did was a very minor speed bump that has been available for a long time. I found a Mac Pro killer as far as hardware goes. Twice the memory slots, about twice the pci/e slots with at least 4 that can run at 16X at the same time, 4 internal hdd slots like the Mac Pro with an additional 4-6 internal/external hdd drive bays, plus processors up to a dual 8 core 3.2 GHz processors. I'm sure that they will sell fewer of these models than Apple would a Mac Pro. The company is not Dell, HP or any of the other main stream computer companies. But they still believe that they can make enough money with their setup to invest their time & money in it. But Apple didn't even add SATA III to the so called updated Mac Pro. No wonder they quickly removed the New from the Mac Pro adds. Updates of the Mac Pro average closer to 2 years than to 1 year. We were told that when we changed to the Intel Processor that we would have faster updates of the processor in our new Macs. Compare this 2 year update cycle to the several month renew cycle of the G5. Just more of the Apple Hype.
This last part was only mentioned to show what bill of goods Apple wants us to eat. The Intel Mac makes a much better Windows computer than the PPC could ever hope for. So again Windows seem to rule our Macs. Which brings us back to where I started. My only Windows computers that I have ever purchased have been my Intel Macs. I've owned only Macs since the 1st Mac 128 in 1984. So do not call me a troll. I'm just an unhappy long time Mac User. No new Mac Pro to replace my 1st Gen Mac Pro. No 17" Ivy Bridge MacBook Pro to keep the hardware side of me happy. Apple has left me rather than me leaving Apple. Are they going to make a Switcher out of me??? Only time will tell.
Typical, if Apple has got a new iMac in the line I'm definitely not buying since it would suggest that it is very likely that in a years time it be obsolete as Apple bring out another model. A new model would send all the wrong messages, no-one would buy it, unless of course Apple did the right thing and guaranteed that it would not update it.
Apple had NEW on that model just for a short time. Maybe even rated in hours. They removed it because the Mac Pro had very, very minor speed increase from 2.96 MHz to 3.06 MHz for the top model. They were forced to take the word New out of this model. So I would think that the time is still going for a Mac Pro Update that can actually be called NEW. Whether it will happen can only be seen.
The so called new model that you are talking about probably only happened because some very needed pressure from enough Mac Pro Users to have them at least carry on the model. There were not enough 17" Mac laptop users available to get them to at least continue the old 7" MacBook Pro model.
I would giggle (and be miserably upset), if the Sept. 12th announcement was for these two only and not the iPhone.
I've just sold my iPhone and now I have to live for a month and a half without one :'(
If they push it back to October, I could commit.
I've just sold my iPhone and now I have to live for a month and a half without one :'(
If they push it back to October, I could commit.
I don't think the Mac Pro is sexy enough for Apple. They now have the industry's thinnest laptops, iPads, iPhones, and the iMac and MacBook Pros do practically anything a pro user would want - except for the expansion. It's clear over the last few years that Apple is not as turned on by the Mac Pro as its thinner, sexier, lighter mass consumer products.
These infrequent updates make it possible to buy an iMac in 2011, keep it for almost 2 years, then sell it late-2012 at almost the same price as a "like new" computer.
Come on, Apple. A "new" iMac should not be the same hardware and price as a 2011 model.
Come on, Apple. A "new" iMac should not be the same hardware and price as a 2011 model.
You do realise that expandability exists today in the form of thunderbolt and external pci cases that you can slot your pci cards into then hook up to the thunderbolt port.
Apple will not drop a high end Mac machine. At least until cloud based processing is there and the infrastructure for that is still not there.
It's what they design iOS and the devices on. Devs will always need a higher end machine exponentially more powerful than the devices. And as the new iOS machines are becoming incredibly powerful now with some astounding 3d apps etc - it's only going to be more important to have top of the range machines.
My 2008 mac pro is still 13 times as powerful as the iPad3 on GeekBench. ( 10,000 against 750 - about the same as a Mirror door G4 tower or the first mac mini's) but still doesn't account for the crazy graphics card I have etc.
Totally agree they should have updated the processor properly at least the the last update - but I am sure what would have meant a motherboard redesign.
I suspect there will be a from factor redesign.
Half the size probably and weight!
Space for a 2 normal HD's or 4 SSDs - External storage is the key.
No Optical drive ( the only time I open mine is when I hit eject by mistake )
4 pcie slots
Thunderbolt etc.
I agree but Apple rarely reduces prices on current lines unless a new/update is released, the only recent exception I can think of is here in AU they reduced the Mac Pro last year sometime because of our strong AUD against the USD.
Based on what Tim Cook said in that email, if true, we might have a total re-design of the Mac Pro to look forward to in 2013. I wouldn't be surprised if they scaled down its size significantly, removed some of the less used expansion options and/or reduced the number of slots, and put it into a form factor that could comfortably sit on a desktop.
Oh well if the CEO of Apple says it it MUST be true. Just like we were told Pros were going to LOVE FCP X?
There has be an interesting story behind this, and I gotta know what it is.
...did you do it to remelt the solder or something?
NVIDIA has lost my trust because of their horrible 7300GT that came with my iMac. I heard that they're not as reliable as ATI.
Same reason they did it to the MacBook Air and Retina MacBook Pro. I know the iMac isn't "portable" but still. It'll eventually be gone for good as Apple pushes into "Digital Only".
I wouldn't bet a lot of money on that statement. Last I checked about 70+% of their profit is coming from the iDevices. It is easy to see why the Mac line is just a sideline business for them at this point. For the maximum profit the focus must be on the iDevices.