I predict new Mac Pro within 3 hours!!!

[colonelsanders]

Sorry to say it, but i feel your setting yourself up for a letdown tomorrow aswell.

I would normally agree but i think last year is evidence that tomorrow can't be written off quite yet. I'm trying to find evidence of this, but i believe after an all iphone keynote last year Apple made some quiet updates to their pro-line the next day. This is based off of memory - I haven't found a link to support my claim. Yet...
Regardless, i think it was just processor or graphics card bumps.

We can always hope, right?

 

[mism]

Clutching at straws here but the front page has just announced Safari 5:

https://www.macrumors.com/2010/06/07/apple-announces-safari-5/

The point being that announcements which at other times may have been keynote worthy were not in the keynote.

 

[ValSalva]

I would normally agree but i think last year is evidence that tomorrow can't be written off quite yet. I'm trying to find evidence of this, but i believe after an all iphone keynote last year Apple made some quiet updates to their pro-line the next day. This is based off of memory - I haven't found a link to support my claim. Yet...
Regardless, i think it was just processor or graphics card bumps.

We can always hope, right?

Maybe there is hope after all. Apple just released Safari 5. This wasn't mentioned at the keynote. Come on Apple, keep the announcements coming!

 

[J the Ninja]

Did the Safari 5 thing give anyone else silly hope and a desire to search WWDC events for anything relating to "trucks"?

 

[slughead]

Deny it all you like, any mention is invocation of Godwin's Law

Well it's certainly not in the spirit of its original intent.

 

[slughead]

I just took this screenshot of the "Mac Pro" website... apparently they haven't updated even the website in a year, either.

In that vein...

 

[ValSalva]

I just took this screenshot of the "Mac Pro" website... apparently they haven't updated even the website in a year, either.

In that vein...

LOL! That cuts right to the current state of affairs

 

[Voltaic]

Someone please surgically remove the iPhone from Jobs's a@$!!!

The Mac is dying...no, the Mac is being killed...

 

[the editor]

I just took this screenshot of the "Mac Pro" website... apparently they haven't updated even the website in a year, either.

In that vein...

sad... but so true, someone email this to steve

 

[Techhie]

"I offer better prices on better hardware because my customers aren't morons."

fixed to:

"I offer better prices on better components because my customers have other options, so I have to stay competitive"

 

[ildondeigiocchi]

Although the fact that Apple didn't announce the Mac Pro today is a MAJOR disappointment, I still think there's a possibility that it may be released tomorrow as most mac updates are effected on Tuesday. Apple won't make a big hullabaloo about it like they did when they released the first Mac Pro... it's such a small market that it's not worth launching massive ad campaigns according to them. Anyways only time will tell.

 

[the editor]

Although the fact that Apple didn't announce the Mac Pro today is a MAJOR disappointment, I still think there's a possibility that it may be released tomorrow as most mac updates are effected on Tuesday. Apple won't make a big hullabaloo about it like they did when they released the first Mac Pro... it's such a small market that it's not worth launching massive ad campaigns according to them. Anyways only time will tell.

hope so, but i wouldn't bet my money on it

 

[Tonytownsend]

Just sent the pic to sjobs@apple.com titled it "A little insight for you"

 

[telequest]

Did the Safari 5 thing give anyone else silly hope and a desire to search WWDC events for anything relating to "trucks"?

After the Farmville thing, maybe better to search for "tractors."

 

[nanofrog]

After the Farmville thing, maybe better to search for "tractors."

Now there's a thought... let's see if Mac Pro's are now manufactured by Mahindra Tractor.

 

[TheLOGICalone]

Apple plans to recruit 300 new employees

Apple plans to recruit 300 new employees
Tuesday, May 18, 2010


Global IT company Apple is planning to create 300 new employment opportunities in Cork during the next year, it has been reported.

According to the Irish Examiner, the company, which recruited about 500 new staff members in the last six months, has recently broken the 2,000 jobs mark for the first time at its premises in Hollyhill, Cork.

Those hired for the new roles are expected to work on the production of the firm's high-end desktop computer, the Mac Pro, which is targeted at professional users.

(http://www.careersportal.ie/news/ne...lans+to+recruit+300+new+employees&ID=19783158)

DOES ANYONE REMEMBER THIS? Maybe they are taking their time to make a big update/refresh(usb3 lightpipe.....)...but then again, aside from some MINOR changes, the mac pro applestore page hasn't changed since the 08 launch, so I definitly agree the focus has changed, "10:26 AM: A few great pieces of info: 5 billion downloads now. 70% of revenue paid to developers: $1b so far." Lol so they made like 300 million dollars for letting people write them software, can you blame them-and thats just the app store!!!

 

[nanofrog]

Apple plans to recruit 300 new employees
Tuesday, May 18, 2010


Global IT company Apple is planning to create 300 new employment opportunities in Cork during the next year, it has been reported.

According to the Irish Examiner, the company, which recruited about 500 new staff members in the last six months, has recently broken the 2,000 jobs mark for the first time at its premises in Hollyhill, Cork.

Those hired for the new roles are expected to work on the production of the firm's high-end desktop computer, the Mac Pro, which is targeted at professional users.

(http://www.careersportal.ie/news/ne...lans+to+recruit+300+new+employees&ID=19783158)

The article also indicates not all of those personnel will be used in the MP and XServe lines though.

Some will be in the Sales Dept., and others may be used for distrubuting devices (i.e. pulling and packing orders for shipment), such as the iPad and iPhones ordered in Europe (as well as future yet unreleased products, such as the rumored iTablet, which is also mentioned in that article).

 

[TheLOGICalone]

The article also indicates not all of those personnel will be used in the MP and XServe lines though.

Some will be in the Sales Dept., and others may be used for distrubuting devices (i.e. pulling and packing orders for shipment), such as the iPad and iPhones ordered in Europe (as well as future yet unreleased products, such as the rumored iTablet, which is also mentioned in that article).

This is true, but my main point is to everyone saying that apple has abandoned computers and the mac pro is dead---> That is ridiculous, the 2010 mac pro will be released and it will be a big leap from the 2009 (http://macosrumors.com/2010/03/29/roadmap-2010-mac-pro/). Imo, it will kick some ass, and everyone needs to be patient... I just wish that they would give us a scrap of a morsel of information about when it will come out, but that is bad for 09 sales. Anyone want to comment about the roadmap link? agree with it/disagree?

 

[Umbongo]

This is true, but my main point is to everyone saying that apple has abandoned computers and the mac pro is dead---> That is ridiculous, the 2010 mac pro will be released and it will be a big leap from the 2009 (http://macosrumors.com/2010/03/29/roadmap-2010-mac-pro/). Imo, it will kick some ass, and everyone needs to be patient... I just wish that they would give us a scrap of a morsel of information about when it will come out, but that is bad for 09 sales. Anyone want to comment about the roadmap link? agree with it/disagree?

It'll only "kick ass" if it is priced in a similar manner to the 06 and 08 models. At most they can offer a Radeon 5870 and dual 3.33GHz 6 core processors and maybe support for more memory, but those three things might not even happen.

By the way the site you linked to has no credibility, they just make stuff up for attention/views.

 

[MRU]

Three is never any good news out of Cork

 

[the editor]

in my opinion its save to say there isn't going to be a new case/look...if they would have given it a complete redesign it would definitely been a "one more thing" at the WWDC conference. expect the usual look, with upgraded CPU and graphics card....that might be it, just maybe a 1TB harddrive but i'm not even betting my money on that

 

[Plutonius]

It'll only "kick ass" if it is priced in a similar manner to the 06 and 08 models.

You will never see that pricing again (it's been written that Intel was giving Apple great pricing through 2008 as part of the switch from the PPC to Intel agreement). 2010 pricing structure should be similar to the 2009 pricing structure.

 

[nanofrog]

It'll only "kick ass" if it is priced in a similar manner to the 06 and 08 models.

Exactly.

The Gulftown processors won't improve performance by much. So that leaves pricing, as you indicate in order to improve the cost/performance ratio.

This is true, but my main point is to everyone saying that apple has abandoned computers and the mac pro is dead---> That is ridiculous, the 2010 mac pro will be released and it will be a big leap from the 2009 (http://macosrumors.com/2010/03/29/roadmap-2010-mac-pro/).

I don't see the article supporting your point all that well, though I do understand your thought process (workers hired to handle MP systems = Not Dead).

Imo, it will kick some ass, and everyone needs to be patient... I just wish that they would give us a scrap of a morsel of information about when it will come out, but that is bad for 09 sales. Anyone want to comment about the roadmap link? agree with it/disagree?

Keep in mind, the Gulftown parts are LGA1366, and use the same chipset as the Nehalem based systems on that socket. That means, they're meant to be a drop-in replacement in terms of hardware (microcode in the firmware will have to be modified so they'll work though, and be the main developmental difference between the '09 and '10 systems). It makes economic sense to leave the hardware the same otherwise (same boards, daughter boards = same RAM slot count,...).

Additional cores will help with multi-threaded applications (SMP on 6 cores per CPU rather than 4), and higher clock speeds with single threaded applications. But for the same core count and clock speed, they're identical (there are a few tweaks to the feature sets that could improve performance a tad, but without real world tests, I won't attempt to gauge how much).

You will never see that pricing again (it's been written that Intel was giving Apple great pricing through 2008 as part of the switch from the PPC to Intel agreement). 2010 pricing structure should be similar to the 2009 pricing structure.

Not true.

2008's E5462 cost more than the current W3520 or E5520, and in the case of a Quad, it's $500 cheaper, yet the system cost also went up $500 (and it even uses 1x fewer chips, as the North + Southbridge configuration was eliminated).

 

[slughead]

Just sent the pic to sjobs@apple.com titled it "A little insight for you"

Did you send it with the latewire watermark!?! that will lead him back to me!! Great. He's probably going to send some goons over with iClubs.

Rest assured that what the new Mac Pro lacks in specs and affordability, it'll make up for in "magic."

 

[Topper]

He's probably going to send some goons over with iClubs.

If you are lucky, he'll send goons from the Mac Pro division.
It will take them a year and a half to find you.
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