"Hope" is the right word - seeing placeholders for a new Mac Pro in Apple OSX 10.8 only means that it's "possible" that the Mac Pro isn't dead.
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Boot Camp Files Hint at New Mac Pro and iMac Models [Updated]
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"Hope" is the right word - seeing placeholders for a new Mac Pro in Apple OSX 10.8 only means that it's "possible" that the Mac Pro isn't dead.
Placeholders are cheap.
Yes, over time with temperature fluctuations, the solder on the printed board can develop stress fractures. Reheating allows the solder to "heal" itself reconnecting any breaks in the circuit. Always good to try this before replacing
a board, however, if the problem is a bad component it won't work. The story
wasn't that exciting though was it?
How about that would also fit into a rack? Welcome back Xserve (sort of! lol)
This will all change when they release an iphone that is majorly understated, along with another underated version of iOS. Then to add on top of that, when they dont release the 'iPad Mini' to compete with the Nexus they will begin to loose out on that market. The Mac market has been on the slow increase.
I need the new iMac and I need it next week.
Here's to Apple rearranging their schedule and releasing a brandy new iMac next week just to appease me!
^ Not meant to be funny.
I need the new iMac and I need it next week.
Here's to Apple rearranging their schedule and releasing a brandy new iMac next week just to appease me!
^ Not meant to be funny.
I need the new iMac and I need it next week.
It was awesome until the latest update. Oh well... Tim Cook also mentions that they will be releasing an upgrade iMac next year. So this whole rumor may turn out to be true.
to bad the info was old and not really saying anything except that Apple is planning to update at some point (which we all ready knew). I could use some more solid iMac rumors that points to some date, while waiting impatiently...something that reassures me that it will happen in 2012.
I do that almost every day.
Anyway, you're just not making a DP workstation small, so what's the point in going crazy removing bays? With all the room you need for air flow, PSU, GPU, heatsinks, DIMMs, and fans, quite a few drive bays are going to fit quite naturally somewhere. Unless you go to a rack form, and that's not happening....
That may not even be to throw people off, but to avoid having to update Boot Camp. Someone may have decided that all the iMacs for the next three years have to support this, so they just added a few future numbers.
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Go to the Apple store, and carefully compare the price of a Retina MBP and a 15" MBP with the same RAM and SSD drive. The Retina MBP is actually _cheaper_.
Speculation. There's been plenty of discussion about optical drives here, but nothing to suggest that Apple plan to get rid of it.
It was awesome until the latest update. Oh well... Tim Cook also mentions that they will be releasing an upgrade iMac next year. So this whole rumor may turn out to be true.
When Apple was still a computer company, they released new models of their products every six months. Remember? There was a time when there were "Early 20xy" models and "Late 20xy" versions, and that didn't require any shallow mentioning from Tim Cook.
The retina iMac, if they make one, will require some significant graphics. At least better than the 650m in the rMBP, maybe not even mobile graphics at all (they do use those now). But that won't fit very well in their design, so we'll have to wait and see.
And about the MP: people can only hope that apple does what doesn't make sense business wise, and continue making one because they love the product and their MP customers love the product.
And about the MP: people can only hope that apple does what doesn't make sense business wise, and continue making one because they love the product and their MP customers love the product.
I'm hanging on it for my next update....If there is no new Pro, then Apple had better ramp up the imac specs....Not in need of a Retina display, just more grunt...My top spec 27" with 2GB VRAM, 16GB RAM is fine, but a Pro was my logical choice for update early next year. The leak seems to indicate that we will see a refresh in both.
That is only because Apple's BTO SSD has an astronomically high mark-up. The RAM is high (versus 3rd parties ) also, but the SSD markup skew is what is driving this. There is no hard requirement that pay Apple for that BTO drive.
A 3rd party 2.5" SSD drive will also work.
What you are comparing here is "BTO" versus standard config. Apple's BTO options are less price competitive than their standard configurations. That isn't really a "new" with the Retina vs classic MBP 15".
Well, at least they will cut 5 mm from iMac and 2 cm from MacPro...
Why this is considered a smart move by Apple designers, I still don't understand...
Not exactly "for good", but only 'cause Apple want to SELL us all we need to buy...
Whatever the hold-up is, it is not Xeon. Xeon E5's soft launched in March. Product was shipping in enough volume in late May for several system vendors to start selling units.
That was one of the primary problem with the missed June expectations. That aligned with the "roadmap + few months" metric.
Apple is completely off the Xeon roadmap. Intel was a quarter or two also. ( 1.5-2 years ago expectations was that E5 would launch Q3/Q4 2011 ). They are completely out of synch with GPU roadmaps too.
The Ivy Bridge E5's are currently penciled in for Q3 2013. If the Mac Pro is waiting on those that is an extremely dubious move. If Intel once again blows their schedule that could mean sliding to almost Q4 2013. Even if Intel delivers on time there is no "new" support chipset coming (e.g., USB 3.0 is still going to be a discrete chip implementation).
When it gets to the point when increasing numbers of folks are retiring their 2009 Mac Pro (after 4 years of service) to move to better performance they are not going to buy essentially the same infrastructure. There are some rip-van-winkel G4-G5 PowerMac and MP 2006-2007 users that Apple can snag with these new models because it is the natural, easier migration path that is substantially faster than what they are on now. Probably can snag a decent number of folks retiring 2008 models due to new needs.