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New Mac Pro Receives FCC Approval Ahead of Launch

Tomboman said:
Does anyone know what that means? - confidential yes, but already published? Or April 2020?

Does short-term confidentiality apply to this application?: Yes
If so, specify the short-term confidentiality release date (MM/DD/YYYY format): 04/27/2020
Note: If no date is supplied, the release date will be set to 45 calendar days past the date of grant.
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The applicant can request short-term (up to 180 days) confidentially of some portions of the filing. In the case of the Mac Pro, Apple requested:

External Photographs
Internal Photographs
Test Setup Photographs
User Manual

be withheld temporarily. Other items like test reports aren’t subject to confidentiality and must be disclosed as of the approval date. Other info can permanently be held confidential, e.g. schematics.

The confidentiality letter available for download at the link provided in the article details this.
 
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The $6000 starter unit is a great machine at a great price, to grow with over the years. Lots of memory slots, lots of high speed PCI slots, two SDD stick slots, it looks like the processor is easy to remove and upgrade the processor down the road and Upgrade the video card down the road. A machine that a user could use for 10 years and still have a great machine with small upgrades over the 10 years. I want one so bad but i work a 40 hour IT job and it would sit at home a large part of the time being unused, unless i try to do a remote connection to my office but it would be kind of slow. So i will most likely settle for a Macbook Pro 16, with a EGPU box and then just upgrade it ever 5 years to keep up with technology advancements.
 
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Most Visual Effects companies won't be able to afford these for their artists in any significant capacity. The bigger companies might get a few units for the odd task here and there (in an Avid suite for example) but the vast majority of 2D and 3D VFX-artists will continue their work on HP's, Dells, what have you. Apple priced their 'pièce de résistance' well beyond their means.
 
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guzhogi said:
Sorry for the stupid question, but can someone add multiple internal drives to it? Would be nice to have extra storage space without taking up desk space, separate drives for OS/Apps and user files, or one drive for macOS, one for another OS.
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Yes! It has three connections! the first is the T2 flash drives (SSD), the upper dual SATA drive bay (3rd party), and you still have the MPX Module storage module
 
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Recurring Silly Comment 1) $6000 gets you something laughable.
Most race cars are sold without engines. No one says "$200,000 and it doesn't even run! Hurr hurr." The base model will boot, but NO ONE will leave it that way.

Recurring Silly Comment 2) I can build X for $Y.
Fine. Go do it. If you don't know why this machine is built the way it is, then you certainly don't want it.

Recurring Not Silly Comment - Doesn't run Invidia/CUDA.
Well, there are two possibilities. Major modeling/ML software will get ported to Metal, in which case this is a good machine for that. Or it won't, and only Video people will want/need it. Ok. True.

I do photography. I don't need this machine. I wish I did, as it's a total lust object (as hardware goes). And Apple really doesn't have the best hardware for photography. But software is changing its use of GPUs all the time. Some filters won't work on my laptop due to insufficient VRAM. Sadly, a $2,000 Dell would be best machine for me. I just a) hate Windows (not out of ignorance) and b) don't want to switch licenses of a dozen software packages.
 
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I really want it now, but I‘m also waiting for a LOT of clients to pay me that are long overdue, so I wouldn’t be sad if the machine still needs another 2 weeks to come out so that I‘ll have the required funds available.... ;)
 
Anticipating a small event featuring this along with new macbook pro 16 and tag...
 
Okay, so I think we'll get the Mac Pro and 16 inch MBP on the same date.

Won't be this week or next week, as Apple will be hyping ATV + (there is an event in NY Friday).

Look for Mac Pro, XDR, MacBook Pro and updated iMac Pro the second Tuesday in November.
 
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jlocker said:
The $6000 starter unit is a great machine at a great price, to grow with over the years. Lots of memory slots, lots of high speed PCI slots, two SDD stick slots, it looks like the processor is easy to remove and upgrade the processor down the road and Upgrade the video card down the road. A machine that a user could use for 10 years and still have a great machine with small upgrades over the 10 years. I want one so bad but i work a 40 hour IT job and it would sit at home a large part of the time being unused, unless i try to do a remote connection to my office but it would be kind of slow. So i will most likely settle for a Macbook Pro 16, with a EGPU box and then just upgrade it ever 5 years to keep up with technology advancements.
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Wouldn't it be cheaper and more efficient, performance-wise, to just buy a new computer every few years?
 
anthogag said:
A good combo for Canada is this Mac Pro and the Pro Display together for $10,000 CDN...
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Hahahaha. It’s ~$7,800 CAD with current exchange rate for the base Mac Pro. So you want the monitor for $2,200 CAD? When it’s $4,999 USD?

I’ll have whatever you’re drinking.
 
Parzival said:
Wouldn't it be cheaper and more efficient, performance-wise, to just buy a new computer every few years?
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Comes down to long term investment and short term investment. If in 10 years you buy 3 computers, that could be over $11000 dollars with a upgraded Mac Pro maybe $9000 and it would not have Xeon processors as the engine. And if Apple keeps this plateform design you could take your stuff to the next Mac Pro system.
 
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Can't wait to laugh at how ridiculous the not-yet-published prices for upgrade options will be.
 
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JoelTheSuperior said:
And truth be told, for a lot of people AMD's offerings are insanely good right now, to the point where this just seems laughably expensive. When you can build a PC with an AMD 12 core for a fraction of the price why bother with this?
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The customer market this is geared towards do not have the time to bother with build a pc. They need something already done. These types of customer lose large amounts of money for any downtime required because a custom video card becomes incompatible with a new OS update. These types of customers buy rigs fully loaded for their uses. And replaces them whole hog with a new one when it it time to “upgrade”..... no switching out parts etc. just new machine and call it done.

When I worked for a major clothing designer, this was how they upgraded their macs/PCs.
 
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Glad Apple finally cut through all that red tape.
Time to change the scissors.
 
PickUrPoison said:
Nice. The machine pros asked for, and got (finally). Yeah it’s more expensive, but much better and more expandable than the $4,000 8-core Apple currently sells.

Pros who use the 2019 Mac Pro to generate revenue will be able to afford the extra $50/month.
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Right, 6k tower with 256gb, a very "pro"fitable machine we asked for, sure. A phone offers more storage.
 
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