Was also called an ashtray. Members on this and other forums were posting images like this one made after it was revealed.
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The 'Trashcan' Mac Pro: Remembering One of Apple's Most Controversial Designs Nine Years Later
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Was also called an ashtray. Members on this and other forums were posting images like this one made after it was revealed.
This makes twice.Was also called an ashtray. Members on this and other forums were posting images like this one made after it was revealed.
I love the Mac Pro 6,1 mostly. What I don't like is how Apple handled it. They never updated it, except for dropping the original base spec and making the previous high-spec the base in 2017. Then they cut it off from OS updates even though they sold them new until 2020. Apparently they kept manufacturing it sometime into 2020 after the 7,1 was well into production. A few businesses like cloud companies loved buying them.
Apple admitted the 6,1 was a failure, but the 7,1 is a failure too. Not in the design, except for the CPU architecture transition, but it was priced too high. I also read an article that says Apple says the US manufacturing, which was just a final assembly, was a failure. So it looks like they will move production to Vietnam for the new one and they downgraded it from their original plans to prevent it from costing even more than the current one.
Apple admitted the 6,1 was a failure, but the 7,1 is a failure too. Not in the design, except for the CPU architecture transition, but it was priced too high. I also read an article that says Apple says the US manufacturing, which was just a final assembly, was a failure. So it looks like they will move production to Vietnam for the new one and they downgraded it from their original plans to prevent it from costing even more than the current one.
I bought one in April 2014 for music production and I’m still using it.
I will be getting a Mac Studio probably later this year but the trash can has served me very well!
I will be getting a Mac Studio probably later this year but the trash can has served me very well!
I finally got my dream machine I always wanted. 375 dollars 6 core, 64gb ram and 256tb ssd. Must have cost a fortune. It runs great, can do my photo editing etc.
I have a Mac Studio Ultra but I still always wanted that model, back then I could never afford it. Looks amazing, much nicer than the Mac Studio. Even the ports light up, due to a sensor. Talk about over engineering 😂
Yes, the 6,1 had a very premium feel to it. The light-up ports were a beautiful touch, as was the quiet fan and the way the cover comes off. The Studio, by contrast, has no such elegant touches. It’s just a tall Mac Mini with an Apple logo that is too large for its surface. Talk about “phoning it in“! Jony Ive must be laughing.
I would love to have an M2 Pro Mini‘s guts in a 6,1 cylinder, and another in a G4 Cube enclosure.
I’m holding out for the next unicorn Mac in the line of the G4 Cube, cylinder Mac Pro, and TAM. Granted, all of those were commercial failures, but they all had that feeling of great design for its own sake. Like a Pagani supercar or a really nice Swiss watch.
I bet that machining and design really added quite a bit to the cost. Sad that all that mechanical engineering went to waste. It would have been amazing if the Studio used the same design. Maybe the new M series will use the 6,1 case etc..
The machine is dead silent and just looks great.
We should start calling it the "Classic" Mac Studio. The new Mac Studio should be called the "Boring" Mac LunchBox.
I kind of wish they'd do that on more Macs. I'm not really sure how it would work on the MBP (maybe have a thin edge of port logos near the speaker grills?), but it would be quite helpful.
They also used to do some kind of perforated faux aluminum to hide the sleep light while it wasn't on. Looked slick.
I really liked the design , at least it had a design unlike the dull bland stuff they're bringing out now - looking at you studio aka the lunchbox
Still using this Mac since bringing it online on 3/14/2014 and being on 24/7/365. I originally used it to host my Windows PC VM but have since moved that onto our office service and just use remote desktop to connect to it for business applications. I seamlessly move back and forth between MacOS and Windows for different tasks. I've replaced other employee's windows PC's at least 2x since I got this, so it was well worth the premium price tag IMHO. I hate to admit that I have thought about replacing it with a Mac studio, but at this point I'm holding off on that.
It’s funny, because you can find these Mac Pro now for almost the same price as a 10 year old MacBook Pro but the price difference between them when they came out was very big.
Aren't the CPUs replaceable in these trashcan Mac Pros? If I am right, you can also upgrade the RAM, if you can find compatible modules for solid price.
In the Mac Studio you can upgrade... wait! You cannot upgrade anything at all in that thing. Maybe change the power cord.
They are replaceable if you can find them...but only to an older Intel generation - nothing current. Plus to get it upgraded where it approaches the compute power of the Studio you'll be using enough electricity to power a microwave oven as opposed to the Studio which draws a couple incandescent light bulbs worth.
Yup, got mine with a quad and no RAM, has 64GB of RAM and a 12 core CPU now. Also got an eGPU working on it
Looked cool, but the limited expandability and that little "thermal corner" problem just cut its knees out from under it.
Too bad.
Too bad.
As geeky as it is, I got mine up and running (in the foreground of the photo) again tonight with a fresh SSD and a very old super duper clone I found on an old HD. And for better or worse I'm going to be using it to run good old Adobe Director to do some contractual work since I'm old and don't plan to learn the new miserable apps for multimedia development. Party time!
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Macromedia Director? I don't recall it being Adobe LOL! I know the history of the purchase (as far back as Aldus) but I would love to see the packaging for Adobe Director
Lol. Yep, Adobe bought it and then slowly killed it (the final version 12 let you program with JavaScript rather than Lingo). I'm quite sure I've got the old box in my office, but rarely go in there. I'll try to snap a photo next time I'm there. 🤣Macromedia Director? I don't recall it being Adobe LOL! I know the history of the purchase (as far back as Aldus) but I would love to see the packaging for Adobe Director
Good old Infini-D used to ship with it, and I loved that 3D modeler.
Wow another blast from the past
That and Strata as well as form•Z for me back in the day.
I still really like this design, and was hoping for something like this would be the Mac Studio.
Should be interesting to see if they change up the studio in a few years, maybe itll make a comeback in some way.
That said I wonder, given they seem to be rumored to reach back to the G4 iMac for this new facetime thing that keeps getting reported, if they’ll also reach back to the G4 era and remake the cube
I would love some retro designs, but reworked for Apple Silicon.Should be interesting to see if they change up the studio in a few years, maybe itll make a comeback in some way.
That said I wonder, given they seem to be rumored to reach back to the G4 iMac for this new facetime thing that keeps getting reported, if they’ll also reach back to the G4 era and remake the cube