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Possible Upcoming Mac Pro Reference Discovered in OS X El Capitan
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Why? the controllers have been launched in september. The spec has been set since January.
Well I have 43 TBs of expensive clutter connected directly to my Mac pro...
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".
You know Thunderbolt 3 uses USB C connecters right? those 6 current Thunderbolt connectors would just become USB C connecters - or 4 / 2 or something.
To clarify, the USB-C standard is the connector which is now used by both USB 3.1 and by Thunderbolt. So if the manufacturer cheaped out you could just have USB-C based USB ports, or for a company like Apple you could have 6 USB-C ports that accept either USB or Thunderbolt devices plugged into any of them.
Yeah I have big external media arrays as well. But I like some internal storage. I have 6 drives in my tower and I like it that way. Projects on a Raid Mirror, SSD boot, SSD scratch, Personal stuff, etc…
We all have different needs. The old design accommodated everyone…the new one only alienates.
Those were specific architectural changes - and I don't see any of those coming in the next few years.
(i.e. PowerPC -> Intel; 32-bit -> 64 bit).
I don't see a move off of Intel, nor to 128-bit coming soon.
And what is your external - is that a DAS device?
Thunderbolt connected DAS devices are exactly that - internal devices....
Hard drives - with the exception of massive arrays of storage - have only a few years of life left in them.
I couldn't wait any longer, I just bought a 6 core last week. It's still a beast of a machine.
Not going to happen, not powerful enough for the full lineup (top to bottom) and they are not going to screw over IBM with the potential in the enterprise (corporations will want to be able to run VMWare/Linux or cough cough VMWare/Windows).
It is at least 2 years away before being able to have ARM based portable "OS X" devices (bitcode installation of applications so the same application can be installed via the store on both Intel and ARM computers without the individual having to care/know). Even then - it would only tend to be used for ultra-portables like the new Macbook (where you don't need to run VMWare/Intel applications).
Or just rack mount it along with another 24+ drive DAS storage in the same rack.
No secret, the names are standard USB terminology.
HS = USB High Speed = USB 2.0. 2 of them have port type 255 which may indicate they are internal. One is for Bluetooth and perhaps the other is the motion controller. (In other Macs, the webcam would be USB attached)
SSP = USB SuperSpeed Plus = USB 3.1
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...and people wonder why Jony Ive and Co don't feel the pressure to seek the general population for "advice" on how to design their products? LMAO, this is a joke I know, but the thing is that you can guarantee that someone, somewhere ACTUALLY THINKS THIS IS A GOOD DESIGN.
I'll tell you who understands how to design Apple products; Apple.
That would be a good design if the display were on an entire side of that thing. People are dying to buy a mac they can upgrade.
That's an awfully misleading statement. The new MP is "more expandable" in your very cherry-picked scenario of Thunderbolt-attached devices. In almost every other way it is less expandable. Fewer CPU sockets, fewer memory sockets, no optical bays, no HDD bays, no PCIe slots, and extremely restrictive GPU choices. And if the new MP had simply kept the same physical design as the classic MP, it would have had all of those advantages plus Thunderbolt attached devices.
There are several advantages to the new MP design. It is smaller in size, uses less power, makes less noise, and has fewer fans that can fail.
But "much more expandable"? No, not without some narrowly defined view of expansion, and even that falls apart compared to what a 2013 MP could have been if they hadn't changed the basic physical design.
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