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New Mac Pro? When?

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Rantonetti

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Hi, does anyone have an idea when Apple will upgrade their Mac Pro series? I've an ageing G4, 2002 vintage, and want to get a Mac Pro, but I understand the Mac Pro series has been out for some while, and probably due an upgrade soon...

Any ideas when? I would buy the base model, but don't want to buy the base 2.0 GHz machine when it's likely to be superseded in the not too distant...

Thanks a lot.

Rantonetti
 
later 2007(?) two months (?) tomorrow (?). Nobody knows. By the of the year we'll see an upgrade buy then to get the longest time of non succeeding computers coming out. And maybe they will work out the memory bandwidth issues.
 
i don't imagine the Mac Pro will be updated until everything else has. if memory serves correctly, it was the last model to be updated. i think they'll update the minis, MacBooks, and MacBooks Pro at the same time (before the end of August), followed by the iMac and then the Mac Pro by the end of the year.
 
For them not to be updated when Intel drops Xeon prices in July would mean that Apple are out of the running for those buying a workstation rather than buying a mac. Or rather Dell, HP and whoever else will have much better pricing and options than Apple, so much so that the Mac Pros would likely become a Joke.
 
Prices will look a bit to expensive.

As mentioned above, when Intel drops the prices, if Apple don't follow suit the prices for the Mac pro's will be a joke. Especially in the UK. Although they are no doubt a lovely system and the Dual-Quad Core would be wonderful, the pricing is to rediculous. Especially given the strength of the £Sterling at the minute.

I can't justify spending equal to $6905.99 on what should only cost $5024.00

V.A.T and everything else does not add $2,000 to the cost of a system.

Customers will start to look elsewhere, i don't want to get a Windoze/Linsux machine, I want a Mac, but "Good Old Stevo" is ripping us off a little to much.
 
rkrammes said:
Well a price drop and a update are different things.
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In the past I would agree, but with the predicted intel prices making two quadcore processors cost around the same as the current prices on two dualcore it has other impacts. For Dell it'll be a case of repricing and adding the config options on their pages, for Apple with they way they deal with their product lines it has to surely mean an redesign/update to the line. I mean sure they could just drop the price but that doesn't seem very Apple like. The price drop is one of a few things that culminate around june/july that should see the Mac Pros get an upgrade. It's just the one definate thing with details we can use in the guesswork.
 
Umbongo said:
In the past I would agree, but with the predicted intel prices making two quadcore processors cost around the same as the current prices on two dualcore it has other impacts.
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You think if Intel drops prices in this way that Apple will just keep selling the quad chips at the same price they are now? Why?

For Dell it'll be a case of repricing and adding the config options on their pages, for Apple with they way they deal with their product lines it has to surely mean an redesign/update to the line.
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This also seems like bad logic to me. Why would you think Dell has such an advantage? Why does a new processor or price change require more work for Apple then Dell?

I mean sure they could just drop the price but that doesn't seem very Apple like.
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Apple has dropped the price on many products many times, especially if something has an early adoption surcharge like the quad-core xeons.
 
rkrammes said:
This also seems like bad logic to me. Why would you think Dell has such an advantage? Why does a new processor or price change require more work for Apple then Dell?

Apple has dropped the price on many products many times, especially if something has an early adoption surcharge like the quad-core xeons.
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I wouldn't call it an advantage, to me it all comes down to marketing, and Apple market the Mac Pro in a specific and different way to how Dell deal with their Precision range. My real point is that Apple will have to react to the pricing and with other components being revised around that time I find it more likely of a new range of Pros rather than price drops.
 
Umbongo said:
My real point is that Apple will have to react to the pricing and with other components being revised around that time I find it more likely of a new range of Pros rather than price drops.
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The highest CPU configuration for the Dell precision line is Quad Core Intel® Xeon® Processor X5355 2.66GHz, 2 X 4MB L2,1333. The current processor in the Macpro is still unreleased, I think, and is the X5365 at 3.0Ghz, 8MB L2, 1333. I'd say its Dell's (and everyone else's) turn to react.
 
THanks for all the replies. Very helpful. Hopefully we'll see a price drop/power upgrade sooner rather than later.

Rantonetti
 
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