yes because your mac pro is made to sit under the desk, the current mac pro is sitting on the desk. The current 1070 or 1080 make a lot of noise if you have an eGPu on the desk..we will see, i hope apple is working hard with amd to make an capable easy and silent modular mac pro
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Concept Imagines What a Modular Mac Pro Might Look Like
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The sound the vents produce is independent of the place it sits, you know ;-). The new trashcan Mac Pro is quieter only if it does not compute anything computation intensive for an extended period of time.
oh man that is an awful concepts... So funny to see people who have no concept of industrial design or engineering attempt to provide a solution.
I have a hackintosh. (I also have two real mac laptops and have given away or sold or downright *scrapped* more macs than many people see)... I have a hackintosh because Apple don't make the machine I actually want.
What I have wanted for many years, is whatever the high-end iMac has... but without a screen welded to the front. Because screens fail or obsolete on a different schedule to computers. My hackintosh is very close to being a 2013 iMac - a machine btw you could never plug a 4K monitor into. But mine has a GeForce 960 into which you could plug three 4Ks, or possibly a 5K. That's what I want.
The hackintosh "community" does contain cheapskates, people who will just never buy a Mac and are looking to do it on the cheap. But it also contains people who *would* buy a Mac, if it was the right mac. I would buy a screen-less Mac that's equivalent to ongoing-today's high-end iMac, for more than I could build an equivalent out of parts, because frankly doing hackintosh stuff is a PITA I could do without.
I would be very happy if they just sold a prosumer and pro pair of logic boards (for core/Xeon, non-ecc/ecc ram etc.) that you can just put into standard cases; or even better that they could sell these in a case, like a barebones system that you can buy in a fairly basic form or add a shed load of BTO options...
But I expect they could do that far more easily than something that's not going to appear until next year...
Sure the PowerMac G5 top end models were a noisy beast that ran hot but that was only due to the PPC architecture.Can't be as bad as a G5 Power Mac.
Contrary to what many would have you believe the PowerMac G5 running OS X 10.5 Leopard remains an incredibly productive unit. Even the low end ones which run quieter of which I have in daily use in my office.
My newest Mac being a Late 2009 21.5" iMac 3.06GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU, GeForce 9400 256mb Graphics and 12GB DDR3 RAM.
Dell would like to talk about the repainted Dell Inspiron with the buttons moved from the side to the middle.
How about something similar to the trash can Mac Pro, but with say just an RX480 and a couple standard M.2 slots. Then for those that need more GPU they can have an Apple designed external GPU box that can take any full size card and it could run off dual TB3 for decent bandwidth.
if you keep your pc on your desk is clear more close to your ears man
when i use the mac pro at over 90% its still silent, yes you can hear the air flows but it is a pleasant experience
Indeed Apple could learn much from the design of other manufacturers. Its a case of whether they want what in the consumers best interest.Dell would like to talk about the repainted Dell Inspiron with the buttons moved from the side to the middle.
The modern day Mac line up is a shadow of its former self therefore we can expect a cranky ladies handbag design for the new Mac Pro.
The point is, at full load the trashcan is louder than the 5,1 ... under the desk or at your desk. But I am not taking away your chance to enjoy your nice desk heaterif you keep your pc on your desk is clear more close to your ears man
Hahaha. I was thinking the same thing. Can you imagine trying to work on that thing and keep having to keep it from falling forward anytime you touched the desk?
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As some others have said already, I think this misses the mark, though it's well designed and looks nice, it doesn't really fall into line of what Apple probably wants the next Mac Pro to look like.
Also, I just had to.
Should have made it just forever spinning.
I've got a dual processor G5 sitting in my basement serving old iTunes content onto my network. It's a great unit, for sure, but it was unbelievably noisy under load. That's all I was saying. The 9 fans in mine rev almost all the way up just loading Pages documents.
I'm not sure which model you have, but when my hex-core cylinder runs 24 hours at full blast it is pretty quiet. The CPU never throttles either. I could probably use the rush of warm air above it to rig up an effective food dehydrator. Alton Brown would probably approve.
Truly awful design;
clearly thought out by folks w/ little knowledge of thermals, data buses, or product reliability.
And a SD card slot on a "Pro" workstation for cinema, VR creation, and scientific/deep-learning !!???
This design gets my "make-my-brain-hurt" award for the day.
CURVED
Please stick to consumer mobility products.
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Since you dont have it you just talk from what you heard on the web. The 5.1 its clear louder i had it with ssd for 1 and a half year,.so keep liying to yourselfThe point is, at full load the trashcan is louder than the 5,1 ... under the desk or at your desk. But I am not taking away your chance to enjoy your nice desk heater
"It’s quiet. Since the new Mac Pro was announced back in June, many people have been wondering how loud it would be. And for good reason: The old Mac Pros had a reputation for being noisy—sometimes a low background buzz, other times a wind-tunnel roar."
Actually I wouldn't mind that. Maybe a slightly smaller version of it though since components are smaller and you probably would want SSDs.
I've heard it in the video, nice and clear... Anyway, it's just simple physics, you cannot replace volume.
Yes, HDDs would of course be louder (I have the OWC PCI-express SSDs and an extra 2.5" SSD and a couple of HDDs for semi-cold storage [they are turned off unless I access something on them, which is rarely]). It's not about lying to myself, if the current Mac Pro's computing power was in a cheese-grater-volume case, it would be yet quieter.
