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New Mac Pro thread (merged)

Yu really think that?

twietee said:
Actually only two things that I'm worried about: dust (and I guess I just made that up) and noise. Under load, the latter could be a deal breaker...we'll see (and hear - hopefully not, though)
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A multi-billion $ outfit like Apple has not thought about dust???
 
After going through the slideshow I have one more thought: who put the power button in the BACK and in the middle of it as well??

Connections are bad enough although you can *grimace* use extension cables. With the power button there it pretty much HAS to go on the desk ... along with everything else that used to go inside. Even my windows towers at work have more sense than to do something that boneheaded.

Oh, I get it. Radical new thinking. Monitors go on the floor now.
 
KaraH said:
After going through the slideshow I have one more thought: who put the power button in the BACK and in the middle of it as well??

Connections are bad enough although you can *grimace* use extension cables. With the power button there it pretty much HAS to go on the desk ... along with everything else that used to go inside. Even my windows towers at work have more sense than to do something that boneheaded.

Oh, I get it. Radical new thinking. Monitors go on the floor now.
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Because its 2013 and "no one" powers down their computer on a regular basis ;)
 
After more than two years of waiting, I don't know whether to laugh, cry, blow my top, or anything else along the spectrum. I'm still in a state of shock...and not a good one. No sale here except for possible use as a very expensive paperweight. Innovation is a good thing, as is "made in the USA," but this is an absolute slap in the face of many, faithful, professional users. Perhaps as more details and benchmarks surface I'll have a change of heart, but with zero GPU options (i.e., no Nvidia), and the unnecessary expense/PITA factor of external expansion, I seriously doubt it. FWIW, Wall Street wasn't impressed either.
 
KaraH said:
After going through the slideshow I have one more thought: who put the power button in the BACK and in the middle of it as well??

Connections are bad enough although you can *grimace* use extension cables. With the power button there it pretty much HAS to go on the desk ... along with everything else that used to go inside. Even my windows towers at work have more sense than to do something that boneheaded.

Oh, I get it. Radical new thinking. Monitors go on the floor now.
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i dont know about you but I turn off my current Mac Pro maybe two times in a month, rest of the time its sleeping - I just wake it up by a keyboard.

who knows, maybe they will introduce new keyboards with power switch :) like back in G4 days.
 
KaraH said:
After going through the slideshow I have one more thought: who put the power button in the BACK and in the middle of it as well??

Connections are bad enough although you can *grimace* use extension cables. With the power button there it pretty much HAS to go on the desk ... along with everything else that used to go inside. Even my windows towers at work have more sense than to do something that boneheaded.

Oh, I get it. Radical new thinking. Monitors go on the floor now.
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Same as the new iMac, same as the mac mini. It was the old Mac Pro that was lagging behind with where the power button was located.

The point is that you will rarely be turning it off given the advanced power capabilities.
 
Pretty sure those GPUs are desktop GPUs, just in case we were still complaining about that.
 
SimeoneSergio said:
Uhmm well i'd really like to see how this trashcan performs compared to a superpumped hackintosh...

It might be surprisingly decent... Imho!
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Of course it's going to perform. Each new computer is released with the latest, better performing Intel CPUs. Even the latest $500 Acer business box performs far better than those from a couple of years ago.

Design = Apple
Performance = Intel, AMD, nVIDIA, etc.
 
G4 Cube "I'm back, baby!" :D

Remind's me of an updated G4 Cube except this time thunderbolt alows for real expansion. The center cooling channel is very very Cube-like.
 
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Positive?

I have at least found one thing that is positive. Apple stock is down on the news. People don't buy this joke invitations any more.
 
Interesting day

I saw OpenGL 4 on a 10.9 slide.. so thats awesome. About time.

I'm concerned about only 4 dimm slots.. 4x16gb ram chips to just get to 64gb is gonna be $$$. I'm gonna want 32 at least to start.

1 cpu :(.. getting a single 12 core seams $$$$ but at least they are E5 v2's.

The Gpu is concerning, I really want a CUDA (nivida card), all the apps I use support cuda, not openCl. The propriety look of the GPU is concerning, EFI was enough of an issue/deterrent for AMD and Nvidia, let alone a unique form factor. I upgraded the GPU in my MacPro 2 times after getting the top of the line at purchase.

This seems like Apple, forcing the stagnant growth of Thunderbolt, and OpenCl, to the detriment of early adopters.

I will get likely one, but not happy to go back to the days of daisy chaining scsi's... it will be an octopus. I'm also curious if in 18 months the TB v3 on comes out that works much better with all these peripherals. I'm not sure the TB v2 bandwidth is there.
 
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Dannyshing27 said:
I remember the old days when we had to chain SCSI hard drives and peripherals together now is the future where we ..... ermmm :)
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Even the Apple ][ had slots for cards.

Oh right, the chief hardware person from back then is not working at Apple any more.
 
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