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Does that build-your-own PC come with support, a warranty, and optional AppleCare that most companies/professionals want? macOS?
I wonder what Apple considers ‘Fall’ because right now snow is falling.
What's worrying is Apple's record when it came to its pro products' expansion options, we have several years' worth of greatly expansion-capable Mac Pros that were left out in the cold when it came to upgrading the CPU and GPU - things like RAM, storage, specialized cards are a given, but the core stuff was always mysterious MIA.
Yes but you need to buy a separate part for that.
And for OS and Apps, you CAN NOT expand or replace SSD cause only Apple makes it and there is no way to get it separately.
I'm not sure you're fully informed about the CPU and GPU upgrade possibilities that existed with the MP4,1 & MP5,1 machines. Go to the Mac Pro forum and you'll see tons of links for those.
Standard off the shelf Sapphire Pulse RX 580 8GB GPUs are Apple's own recommended for these machines for Mojave.
CPUs are restricted to the same "CLASS" or "SERIES" that Apple's stock are issued. I'm running dual X5690's in MP5,1 and these were never available as an option from Apple. RAM is at 128GB and this was not possible from Apple at the time. System boot drive is an NVMe, which was possible from Apple's BootROM update.
This flexibility is the hope for the MP7,1.
I believe that Apple announced that it would be released this quarter which ends sometime in December (I may be wrong).
Where did you read that Apple said it would be released in October ?
Ahh if you look at the hardware images, it does not look like this on the new product. It has regular PCI slots also. The processor does not use that crappy thermo paste with a hugh water cooling block that is a disaster waiting to happen both the thermal paste and the water cool block. You flip a couple of holders and pull out the processor and stick a new one in. And maybe we will even see a Nvidia support come back for the Mac Pro. We will all have to see.
go look at pro workstations... My last PC one cost £18K.
If you need a machine for work and it's primary source of earning money then even 30K is not a lot. My Gardener bought a pick up truck for work and that cost more than that - Wonder if people go on forums complaining that you could buy a Nissan cheaper than a For or whatever?
Sorry for being confused, but I thought I read somewhere that upgradding internals (RAM, Storage, Graphics cards and processors) can only be done by Apple because of some T2 security chip being paired with them or some verification process for every part that goes into them?
Since the $6000 base model is laughable, and obviously any "pro" needs to upgrade literally EVERYTHING to use it, do we have to pay Apple-prices for SSDs and RAM and such or can we get stuff from OWC if they get it certified?
Since the $6000 base model is laughable, and obviously any "pro" needs to upgrade literally EVERYTHING to use it, do we have to pay Apple-prices for SSDs and RAM and such or can we get stuff from OWC if they get it certified?
OWC, will be the place.
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Last Day of Fall is December 21 so Apple still has over a month and a half to deliver for fall
Sure... but the upgrade GPUs are beasts and you can install any AMD GPU... I do wish they supported Nvidia but its issues on both sides as I understand it.
Pretty much every Crevice software company is behind this. Including traditional Nvidia only software like Redshift and Octane.... they are realising AMD versions because of this machine and presumably some Apple Cash! Nvidia is less relevant in a lot of cases now.
Storage isn't great but there is always a sweet spot with Apple machines.
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Because of the insane mess that is Windoze.
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I suspect future AMD GPUs will be supported. CPU looks to be swappable. I do think they have listened in a lot of ways... well apart from Nvidia support... but who knows... it may happen in the future.
I have a "trash can" Mac Pro and its a pretty good computer. But I am really unhappy with Apple not providing any option to upgrade the graphic card. The CPU is ok and will be for a long time. 64GB of RAM are also sufficient. But the graphic card is really crap!
No, you can upgrade yourself with any compatible parts. OWC will definitely be proving stuff for it. But it won’t happen out of the gate for sure
I did see on OWC website on the main page they were all ready showing the Mac Pro and the memory upgrades and external drives and hubs for the new computer.
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Well no... it's an amazing Audio workstation - They showed that.
It has standard Sata connectors so should be able to add SSDs - but we don't know about the M2 connector... some people thought that looked like a different type of slot?
I wonder if it will accept PCIE M2 holder cards - probably.
The T2 chip will probably be linked to the main SSD.
That would be my guess also just to the main SSD chips.
Or purchase the original Mac for 5K and get a floppy disk!😂SIX THOUSAND dollars and you get a 256GB SSD
You should also be able to use a standard PCIe adapter. It should support bifurcation, so an inexpensive adapter with 4 M.2 drives should work fine.
Why are people OVER AND OVER AND OVER again bitching about how way above their budgets these are in terms of a lump sum purchase, when looking at it from a business finance/leasing point of view it's a bargain! It's no different to leasing a £15,000 car for a deposit plus £100 per week which you then swap out after 3 years for a brand new one!! For the income this purchase should generate (if you use it for what it's designed to do), it's a no-brainer!!!
Yeah, no. We did ask for a modular upgradeable design with better cooling but we definitely didn't ask for an absurdly expensive server grade Xeon CPU.