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Possible Upcoming Mac Pro Reference Discovered in OS X El Capitan
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Bring Thunderbolt 3 and USB 3.1 Type C (reversible) Generation 2 to all Macs, displays and keyboards with built-in hubs.
I really want the return of the white iMac in a future redesign, and I'd be fine with keeping the aluminum finish on the rear side like iOS devices. I think if they're going to offer different aluminum finishes, as they did with the new MacBook, they ought to match the bezels to their iOS counterparts, i.e: white bezels with silver, gold, or rose gold finishes, and black bezels with a space gray enclosure.
Space gold sounds pretty cool. Arghh, give me all ya space gold, arghh!
as ive been saying from the beginning, they should have kept the mac pro as an expandable tower, and sold what we now know as the Mac Pro as simply just "Mac"... the design is solid. imagine if they kept the form factor but introduced scalable products... a "value proposition" type E3-12xx v5 then more powerful E5s at a higher price point. with how effective the cooling core is, you could probably have a fanless or very low-use fan model.
we are a loooooong way off from seeing Thunderbolt3/USB-C on the Mac Pro.
this bump will be equivalent to the 2010 mac pro refresh. nothing major, just bumps and spec improvements. E5 V3 CPUs, mmmaybe DDR4 usage, Fury graphics.
we wont be seeing those pop up onto mac pros until the Purley platform is ready which likely wont be until close to end of 2016
You can have it in any colour you want, as long as it's black.
Yes, and I'll take a 40" UHD 4K monitor to go with that new Mac Pro.
It would be great if they held an annual Mac only keynote again. Early December would be the obvious choice to even out the keynotes throughout the year. That way they could announce in December and release in early January in time for the start of the new financial year when most companies make their IT purchases. That would certainly help their enterprise sales.
The Mac Mini should be a desktop tower for those that don't want a Mac Pro and use any display, etc. Preferably with dedicated GPU. Is Apple intentionally forcing users to buy an all-in-one iMac cause it sure does look like it. If a Macbook Pro can have a dedicated GPU in there, why can't a Mac Mini? A price of $500 can get you a hackintosh but i guess in the Apple world it would start at $1000
I saw the same, absolutely consistent for a nMP, 4 USB3 (SS) and 6 USB3.1 (HS) which twice as TB3 an coincides with current nMP 6 TB2 configuration.
What this means (no TB2/DP) is it should be mated to a new Cinema Display with USB-C solution, and selling Apple some USB-C/TB3/DP1.3 <-> TB2/USB3/DisplayPort1.2 adapter for legacy compatibility.
Also very possible Next to Update the iMac line (including DDR4 memory and USB-C instead TB2 and maybe some CPU/GPU upgrade) all this as late as next WWDC.
Not Earlier tan February/March since new Intel Xeon E5 is not available until then.
External expansion is not really expansion...
Agreed. I have a mbp sitting on my desk w/ a 30" ACD, and a T-bolt cable going into an office cabinet with drives inside. Super clean yet portable when I need it. I'll do the same w/ a macpro if I get one some day.
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HaHaHa, Yes this is true! Very expensive. Also, Less likely for a USB-C connectivity addition. Does not make sense to have this with a production system. Defeats the purpose and kills the slick trash can design unless it is located at the bottom of the machine, almost at the desk level.
Someone said earlier in a post that the 2013 model is a "dream machine". Yes...it is. Even if a refresh comes out, the 2013 is still the "dream machine", therefore a 2016 machine would be "heaven".
"Connectivity" is the provision of a pathway or a conduit TO something else, it is a means to an end, not the end in itself. The things you expand the Mac WITH are what matters, not the "oh look, I have places where I can plug cables in" ... yes yes, but those cables enable the connection to THINGS, and those things provide the expansion of capabilities, not the fact that it can BE connected.
I agree. The time for internal drives is over, whatever my feelings are about it. I own two towers, a MP2012 and a MP2009 and they are both chugging away, but I will get a version 2.0 if and when they come out. I like being able to keep the core in one place and a Thunderbolt-connected bay elsewhere. More options, honestly. I'm going to try to hold on to the 2012 tower for a while, anyway.
The have to make the base configuration actually more powerful than the i7 27" iMac in order to make it truly a PRO machine. When the i7s can beat out the Xeon chip, that makes for some embarrassing situations.
Old news...mac mini's are designed to give you a taste for Apple products, that is the product line, never EVER again will it have a dedicated GPU.... Price point is to get you in the eco system and then HAVE to upgrade to a more expensive model if you want to do serious things which is more profitable for Apple. Sorry folks, Apple is in for it now for the money more so then technological advancements. Marketing runs the show and not the tech or "innovation" department. Yes, the company has always been in it for the money...but is the game now to have the most?
