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Mac Pro Update - July 20th

No Mac Pro refurbs in U.S. store

For the first time since I've been checking on a regular basis (early this year), there are currently no refurb Mac Pros available in Apple's U.S. online store.

I have no idea if this indicates anything about the likelihood of an update soon. It may just be that buyers are snapping them up faster than usual as the full-price new boxes get longer in the tooth.

If I had to buy a Mac Pro today, I'd more than likely go for a refurb, and I suspect there are plenty others who would do the same.

Still, I've not seen zero refurbs there in the last 6 months.
 
telequest said:
For the first time since I've been checking on a regular basis (early this year), there are currently no refurb Mac Pros available in Apple's U.S. online store.

I have no idea if this indicates anything about the likelihood of an update soon. It may just be that buyers are snapping them up faster than usual as the full-price new boxes get longer in the tooth.

If I had to buy a Mac Pro today, I'd more than likely go for a refurb, and I suspect there are plenty others who would do the same.

Still, I've not seen zero refurbs there in the last 6 months.
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Refurb.Me says there were Mac Pros available 3 days ago but looks like they go pretty fast
 
Hellhammer said:
Refurb.Me says there were Mac Pros available 3 days ago but looks like they go pretty fast
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Wow, excellent site for tracking refurbs. Thanks for the heads up.

It verifies my impression ... the number of Mac Pro refurb models available over the past week or so has been dwindling down to nothing. Again, possibly signifying nothing, and come tomorrow, there might be plenty.
 
You guys sound like date-setters for the rapture.

Granted, I've put off my next Mac Pro purchase because of this site. It's always good to keep abreast of Apple product releases because the timing is traditionally that you (meaning everyone) buys a new Apple product and then two weeks later they come out with a bigger, better, cheaper version. No one wants to be behind that curve. So we wait.

Like the date-setters, there is a certain excitement about saying, "Next Tuesday." But seriously, it happens when it happens if it ever happens. For no one knows the date or time of the Mac Pro's return, not the developers or the engineers, but only St. Jobs in Heaven.
 
dgookin said:
It's always good to keep abreast of Apple product releases because the timing is traditionally that you (meaning everyone) buys a new Apple product and then two weeks later they come out with a bigger, better, cheaper version.
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Bigger and better maybe, but generally not cheaper ;)
 
dgookin said:
You guys sound like date-setters for the rapture.

Granted, I've put off my next Mac Pro purchase because of this site. It's always good to keep abreast of Apple product releases because the timing is traditionally that you (meaning everyone) buys a new Apple product and then two weeks later they come out with a bigger, better, cheaper version. No one wants to be behind that curve. So we wait.

Like the date-setters, there is a certain excitement about saying, "Next Tuesday." But seriously, it happens when it happens if it ever happens. For no one knows the date or time of the Mac Pro's return, not the developers or the engineers, but only St. Jobs in Heaven.
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Lacking any other evidence, finding mere straws, we grasp at them.

I've stopped being excited by any upcoming Tuesday, or any rumor. Just killin' time on threads like this one. Current lack of refurbs is as substantial (i.e. as meaningless) evidence as anything else. After this coming Tuesday, will not be able to resist following the next thread offering speculation on why it'll for sure arrive on July 27th. And then August 3rd. Ad infinitum ad nauseum.

Misery loves company, which is why I enjoy hanging out here. :D
 
I'm so tired of it all I've decided that refresh or not I'm ordering a Mac Pro on Tuesday. I'm not happy about it but I'm sick of playing the waiting game.
 
Don't believe anyone!

No primary sources to back up anything.. I would just wait and take with a grain of salt, and don't listen to insiders. as most of them FABRICATE crap.


keewe said:
september seems to be most likely. several "insiders" on this forum (without any reliable source) said it would take that long and after today... i beleive them.
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telequest said:
For the first time since I've been checking on a regular basis (early this year), there are currently no refurb Mac Pros available in Apple's U.S. online store.

I have no idea if this indicates anything about the likelihood of an update soon. It may just be that buyers are snapping them up faster than usual as the full-price new boxes get longer in the tooth.

If I had to buy a Mac Pro today, I'd more than likely go for a refurb, and I suspect there are plenty others who would do the same.

Still, I've not seen zero refurbs there in the last 6 months.
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5 refurbs went up this morning on the Apple Store Online site. The $4999 8-core 2.93GHz one went first...then I purchased the 2.93GHz QuadCore base config. There are two left right now, the other 3 are gone. There is a 2.66GHz one (base config) and a 2.93GHz with 6GB RAM, Radeon 4870, 1TB HD, and 2 SuperDrives. Check the site here:

http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/specialdeals/mac/mac_pro
 
Thats good, since..

I haven't called my friend who works at the Towson Apple Store as a Genius and store manager.. He has information which he will provide for me and I will get it here as soon as I have a chance.. Ouch!! my aching sunburn! :) SOmeone give me some aloe?


dgookin said:
I don't believe you!
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No, its called

Swimming in the Ocean without sun screen.. Although I wore a pair of jeans and a black t-shirt(common to mis conception, there is nothing wrong with swimming in clothes - see www.swimmingfullyclothed.com).. at least my legs didn't get burned, but my neck, face, eyes, head... back - all got sun burned!


WardC said:
Are you sure that's not radiation coming from your W3580 :eek:
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People, look at the history of releases...there is no chance they are going to release anything before the "Back to School" promotion ends. They always use the promotion to clear stock and then release a new model...I saw late September or October.
 
I've been doing this since I was a kid..

nothing wrong with it.. in fact with the sun getting ever closer to the Earth and the UV rays getting much stronger, many people are turning to this type of attire for going swimming..

In Europe, eastern Europe, esp Germany, they do this a lot.. in fact most of the youtube movies on that website come out of Germany and Europe.. Only America its considered strange and exotic..

Try it sometime.. goto a pool party in jeans, sandles and a t-shirt.. horseplay around the pool with your friends - plop! Its fun. This is how I got started with it. I remember that day back in High school..

I was 18 at the time.. summer of 1990.. went to a friend's house to help him with his computer.. dressed in a red shirt and jeans.. he then shows me his outdoor pool.. and from behind he pushes my butt in :)

Believe me.. we all need a break from the mac pro and to talk about something else to get our minds off of it..

Anyway, New Mac Pro coming in September ok?


mism said:
I am: confused / amused / very scared…
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Roman23 said:
In Europe, eastern Europe, esp Germany, they do this a lot.. in fact most of the youtube movies on that website come out of Germany and Europe.. Only America its considered strange and exotic..
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Ahem... a) Germany is not in Eastern Europe... and b) swimming fully clothed is just as unusual in Germany as it is anyplace else. Except in Iran... perhaps... or in the 19th century... ;)
 
Alexs45 said:
... before the "Back to School" promotion ends. They always use the promotion to clear stock and then release a new model..
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For the last couple of years the stock they are clearing is iPods !! Not Macs. In part, that's because it is fairly widely known that new iPods will arrive in Sept/Oct time frame ahead of the Christmas season.

That's the downside of locking in a very narrow fixed time to do updates every year. What tends to happen is that it gets used as leverage to reduce prices.

The bundled free iPod is also being used to offset the generally higher than average Windows PC selling price in the lower half of the pricing spectrum for education folks whose budgets probably don't have much give. If dropping $2000+ on a school computer the delta of an iPod isn't going to a big difference. iPod's are to get folks to stretch over $1000, not $2000, for a box.

Sadly no Xeon 3600 updates from Intel today. A new ECC-less, i7 970 introduced, but it dropped at $899, so perhaps in some movement later in the single quad core package offering. Intel retired a pretty big chunk of the Xeon 5400 line up. Not sure if that frees up more resources to finish flushing out the 3600 series or not. There is still nothing but older 3500s to roll out a full line up for the lower half of the Mac Pro product matrix. Apple still isn't likely to pull the trigger. If Apple is skipping waiting a couple of months for new Sandy Bridge updates for the iMac, looks more likely an update for it would drop tomorrow then Mac Pro. Or Apple a wait for better updates for both for a while longer.
 
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