I'd be very surprised if they did drop professional users. Macs have for YEARS been the gold standard for professionals and they practically ushered in the era of graphics design. It would be almost unthinkable for them to stop supporting professionals, the success of the iPads and iPhones notwithstanding.
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I knew if would happen.
can't wait
Hallelujah!!!!
Apple would never forget the Mac Pro. It's just taken a while to make it right.
Too true
I think the fact Apple is removing the old Mac Pros from retail stores either means they are no longer going to be in the Apple retail stores or goes towards confirming it being a new design.
I don't mind barely any RAM in the Mac Pro. I hate paying exorbitant prices for Apple memory. I'd rather pay for as little RAM as possible from Apple and get most or all of it from other retailers, i.e. OWC.
Define 'drop' because Apple has dropped the pro user in one sense. That sense being THE group they focus on when they are making design decisions. They have even admitted that they no longer ask "what do the Pros want/need" as their question to answer. Now it's all about the consumers and on a rare occasion prosumer. They leave open ways to add on with software plugins etc for those Pros but if it comes down to including something just cause the Pros might want it, well 99.9% of the time that will be a no.
Some of you won't like that notion but its been the writing on the wall for ages. From cutting Xserve and Shake even to how they dropped FCX in favor of making the baseline FCPX more prosumer friendly.
ugh, why are they wasting their time updating this out of date relic!
Steve Jobs must be turning in his grave that they've not yet killed off the mac pro.
Face it, they are not needed any more.
Everything you ever need you can do on an ipad.
If you can't do it on an ipad, then its not worth doing.
Epic Apple fail!!
LOOOOOOL x infinity +1
Troll-tactic
Try edimg 3-4 streams of Apple Pro Ress 422 HQ in final cut on an iPad- well you could - just store your iPad on top of your mac pro.
Or they don't. It's a numbers game and frankly Apple probably makes as much profit off the consumers and prosumers as they do the pros. In fact I would say they make 3-4 times as much profit between the pro class being much smaller and less likely to update their machines every 3 years to the lower margins on what the Pros do buy when they buy.
And when you add that many of those pro customers are now buying what was before considered 'consumer class' machines like iMac and Mac Mini Servers.
Don't be so sure of that. They're supporting things like Thunderbolt technology, which admittedly is extremely expensive and very professional-oriented hardware.
And the Mac Pro: a very high-end tower computer that runs Mac OS X and will likely thrum with power coursing through multiple thunderbolt and USB 3.0 cables all over the place is a VERY expensive machine that very few average consumers will buy. It's a professional machine, and they still cater to professionals on at least some levels.
I think I just heard a collective cheer...
Or a giant sigh of relief over this announcement. Although, the mac rumors of late seem a little underwhelming vs. the speculation of earlier this month. I'm still hoping for a redesigned line of MBPs with retina display and slimmer form factor, but I'll be upgrading my 2006 machine regardless.
Or a giant sigh of relief over this announcement. Although, the mac rumors of late seem a little underwhelming vs. the speculation of earlier this month. I'm still hoping for a redesigned line of MBPs with retina display and slimmer form factor, but I'll be upgrading my 2006 machine regardless.
hell to the yeah!
i want Blueray on a MBP,
if they did offer it i would jump on it right away
Yes!! But a cube made out of Gorilla glass please (instead of Acrylic). Dont care if itll weigh a ton. Id buy that in a second.
Back on topic Professionals rejoice! LONG LIVE THE MAC PRO!
