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None of those are Pro requirements.
LOL seriously? you think pro users care about USB 3.0?! Get real.

If you want to know what a PRO user needs, ask a TV production company.

I'm a pro. I use usb 3.0. Out of all the "pro" users and by this I'm assuming you mean the ones who making their living working on a Mac Pro, the percentage of those that work for TV production companies are the vast minority.

I've worked in studios and saw companies who overspend ridiculous amounts of money on hardware that most of the time is unnecessary. I use usb 3.0 drives all the time to archive projects. $150 for 3TB, backed up on duplicate drives.

It's not just home users and production companies, there is a huge segment that fall in the middle.
 
Sorry to burst your bubble, but the entertainment industry isn't driven by Apple computers. Hell, even Pixar hardly uses Apple hardware. While it was probably common to see Apple's presence in a lot of these shops back in the day, that is simply not the case now.

Um, where have you been in the entertainment industry? Because all I see in the medium-end (indie TV/Film and high end music facilities in Los Angeles, Nashville, and Austin) are Mac Pros. And occasionally G5's, to be honest. There are virtually no PC's in the actual creative content world, at least here in LA. Europe, now that's another thing.

If you are talking about enterprise-level stuff (ie, Weta, ILM, Pixar, etc.), then they do use PC's for the render farms. But walk into virtually ANY editing bay, and literally ANY music or post studio, and you will see Macs.

To be honest, that "high end" (really stratospheric, and irrelevant to the discussion of single-user pro computers) is not where you'd expect to see Mac Pros - they are workstations, plain and simple. In other words, what the super-uber-more-money-than-god-"pros" use is irrelevant to the discussion of what working creatives use. And they, at least in my experience, use Macs*. Period.

(...And most of the video editors I know who actually work still use FCP7 or MC5. I see more PTHD 8 than 9 or 10, and have only seen a few HDX cards in the wild. Now, the ones who don't have work generally have the newest stuff...)
 
Pre-built desktops doesn't sell anymore. Even grannies know how to build their own nowadays.

I decided, as much fun as it was, that once I was a grown-up that I'd rather let someone else deal with building things and then they could also fix them when they break. At the end of the day, the last thing I feel like doing is fixing things. :)
 
I think that maybe some stores are temporarily out of the single core 3.2 Mac Pro because users are anticipating the possible discontinuing of the current Mac Pro after WWDC and have been buying them. A new Pro Mac rumor could be just feeding on itself.

Were not talking about huge numbers here are we?
 
But no matter what they ship, it's still going to come with Mountain Lion; no way to go back to the most stable Mac OS, Snow Leopard. (Graphic professionals have no need for Mountain Lion; they need Rosetta. Considering that 40% of Mac OS users are running something OTHER than Lion/Mountain Lion should tell you something about the professional rejection of the iOSification of the Mac)

But at the end of the day, we just have to admit Apple doesn't Care.™
 
Pre-built desktops doesn't sell anymore. Even grannies know how to build their own nowadays.

The mac pro never sold into those markets anyway with the possible exception of used machines. Used machines mean nothing to an oem's sales, so they aren't a real factor when determining what to build. I think Apple simply bet that the imac and upper macbook pro configurations would capture a significant portion of older mac pro owners with somewhat stagnant requirements.
 
finally

Hope for the Best .. If apple Disappointed again .. they will sure get really bad marketing from me.. & instead of iphone I will go for HTC One ..

I love ipad mini but i won't buy it I prefer galaxy Notes but still they don't meet my expectation .. I love pen input
 
Well, they wouldn't be able to keep using the current CPUs they're selling since the socket and motherboard aren't compatible. They probably could ship with the current sandy bridge chips, but they could have done that months ago. With intel scheduled to release the next gen next quarter, it would be very odd timing to update just before that and then have to update again in a few months.

I just hope they don't wait until late in the year to release them. 12 months after Tim promised new Mac Pros.
 
Heh, managed to snag one of the last 2 remaining 2012 machines in stock at my country's resellers yesterday (EU...).

I'm not pissed because of this indicator for new models soon now because I simply know the new Mac Pro won't be able to do one specific thing... running "good old" Snow Leopard natively :cool:

Still, it sucks when you sit in Europe these days.
 
Would not be surprised if it was announced but delayed until September, when the new chips are due to be available.

September is way to far in the future. Interestingly I'm not sure what they will put in the AIR either as I was under the impression suitable chips won't come till September also.
 
I'm thinking this doesn't sync well with Xeon release schedule because they aren't going to be Xeon based.

i7 Pro machines, here we come...
 
This über thread regarding the Mac Pro @ WWDC (über, because it's front page) is more than 12 hours old, and only 216 (now 217) replies long...

IMHO, this shows that there isn't too much interest compared to other Apple products. Even here over @ MacRumors.
 
I'm completely hooked on MacBook Air and being able to grab ALL my documents and go anywhere without a moment's preparation needed.
Hopefully AIR gets an update to deal with the small SSDs. With the right Haswell chip AIR could be a far more interesting machine. Unfortunately those chips don't come until later this year.
But as Thunderbolt GPUs have not materialized,
Don't expect them too either.
I'm tempted to grab a Pro, and when I'm at my desk, read my files from the Air while running the Pro for speed. My documents might load slow (WiFi, ethernet or Thunderbolt) but my CPU, GPU, OS, apps, and caches would be local to the Pro and full speed! Bioshock Infinite would thank me.

I'd have all the portability of the Air, AND extra power while at home. The tower would be the ultimate dock, in a sense.
Actually maybe Apple will address this, it is a rational use case. If not you have target disk mode.
I'd store no documents (except extra backups maybe) on the Pro. iCloud would sync my bookmarks and calendar, same as I've been doing for months.

(I might do the same with an iMac--it's fast enough--but I already have a display. So a Pro might give me a lot of extra performance for not much more money. We'll see.)
Plus some things on a pro are easy to fix.
 
I'm a pro. I use usb 3.0. Out of all the "pro" users and by this I'm assuming you mean the ones who making their living working on a Mac Pro, the percentage of those that work for TV production companies are the vast minority.

I've worked in studios and saw companies who overspend ridiculous amounts of money on hardware that most of the time is unnecessary. I use usb 3.0 drives all the time to archive projects. $150 for 3TB, backed up on duplicate drives.

It's not just home users and production companies, there is a huge segment that fall in the middle.

And for those people, Apple invented the iMac. The mid-range computers are as fast as Mac Pros from a few years back. Hook up a Thunderbolt RAID, and they're good to go.

The Mac Pro is a very specific thing, for a very specific video-editing audience. It's not even designed for 3-D graphics animators, since Apple ceded that market to Windows.

It is only, specifically for high-end video production.
 
What makes everyone think the new Mac Pro will be the cats meow?
Wishful thinking. If Apple doesn't come out with a Mac Pro replacement that sells it is goods as dead.
They killed the xserve
No sales to justify the machine.
They destroyed OSX server (still run SL server myself)
It is still available and it works.
I hope for everyone wanting a bad machine get's one, but my gut tells me thinner, lighter, and missing some much needed oomph.
Actually I'm fully expecting smaller. Ideally the machine would fit either a full rack or a half rack position. As for oomph, that might be a problem for some but I'm expecting bleeding edge tech here.
 
This über thread regarding the Mac Pro @ WWDC (über, because it's front page) is more than 12 hours old, and only 216 (now 217) replies long...

IMHO, this shows that there isn't too much interest compared to other Apple products. Even here over @ MacRumors.

A lot of that has to do with this being a nothing rumor. If we start seeing some spec leaks next week, then you'll see long topics.
 
September is way to far in the future. Interestingly I'm not sure what they will put in the AIR either as I was under the impression suitable chips won't come till September also.

Still, it would only be a 3 month delay. When you consider that the new iMacs released last October, did not arrive (in numbers) in the UK or France in full spec options (27" etc), until around February 2013.

They may have a few chips stashed to throw out to the baying mob in the US?

So, it is not like they have not done this before...., but I am just rumour mongering ;)
 
Some of you really need to get out of Steve Jobs' reality distortion field. ASAP. Who doesn't need USB 3.0 in 2013? Good luck sending your 10GB After Effects file to your friend.
 
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