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MP 7,1 Waiting for Mac Pro 7,1 A1991 (no more)

this daym s**t is still a fail product , because still we have to use screen breaking risky mods to do even ram upgrade and also what about if we decide to use 2 ultrawide monitors , and what about thermal throttling , its still a meehhhhhh , the only thing i got excited about was that black keyboard , and new macbook pro , aside some of the developer updates , all other things are just plain **** , all m gonna do is to install vega gpu into my 2010 macpro and hookit up to my 2 ultrawide monitors ... and apple never fu***ng fail to disappoint the pro consumers
 
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Let me see:
- onboard memory and storage, preventing user from replacing/upgrading it or getting better deals: check (?)
- xeon CPUs so that price is kept high: check
- built in GPU so that you are locked to one option and forced to use expensive eGPUs if you want alternative or want to scale: check
- AIO form factor so that the included screen is always in your way, also making it sure that you have to keep the machine close to your ears so that you can hear the fan noise: check
 
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koyoot said:
And what do you expect from a machine that has 8 core Xeon CPU, 32 GB RAM, 1 TB SSD, and >500$ GPU with 5K monitor?
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Is that what the base will be? I'm skeptical, especially the 32GB RAM and 1TB SSD. 16/500 seems more likely.

Anyway, I'm not sure anyone is particularly saying it would be worth it if that's what you want, its just such a high jumping off point....
 
wallysb01 said:
Is that what the base will be? I'm skeptical, especially the 32GB RAM and 1TB SSD. 16/500 seems more likely.

Anyway, I'm not sure anyone is particularly saying it would be worth it if that's what you want, its just such a high jumping off point....
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Thats what the presenter said in the closing thoughts about iMac Pro. Base config is 8 cores, 32 GB, 1 TB and Radeon Pro Vega GPU.
 
CWallace said:
Use your eyes man - the slide said just that. :)
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You would be incorrect in that view.
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Ah, need to follow these things somewhere other than Macrumors I guess. Still, $5K for something that is just an 8 core...
 
mattspace said:
jebus, Apple explicitly said they were doing the iMac Pro as a stopgap a couple of months ago to Gruber etc. It was a public statement.
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Unless this doesn't sell well, the standalone version will almost certainly simply be a headless version of this.
 
US $5000.00 for an iMac Pro means.....the next Mac Pro (next year) is going to be EVEN MORE expensive.

OUCH!!!!

Well, that seals it for me. I'm going to build a PC workstation.
 
edanuff said:
Unless this doesn't sell well, the standalone version will almost certainly simply be a headless version of this.
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based on the total lack of interest they've shown in making a "headless iMac" so far? Or, is it more likely that now the iMac Pro is handling the mid-range "pro" tasks, the Mac Pro will be freed to be a monster high-end throughput-focussed system, the way they said they were going to go with it in public statements when they said they were working on an iMac Pro.
 
CWallace said:
We were paying more for that with the current Mac Pro before the price drop and this machine will beat that senseless.
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That model will have been released 4 years before the iMac Pro's arrival. On Broadwell E5-1600 you can get a 8-core, 32GB, 1TB SSD, GTX Titan Xp workstation for something in $4-$4.5K range without the monitor. So its an OK deal if it was selling today, but its not, its selling in 6 months and probably for at least a year, maybe 2, after that. Skylake is bringing a big jump in cores at the same price point too. This is just the additional 2 at the same clocks. The E5-1600 line is likely to mirror the i7/i9 X series. The e5-1660v4 was 8 cores for ~$1100 at 3.2-3.8 GHz. The i9-7920X, is $1180, 12 cores and turbos to 4.5, base clock not yet disclosed, I don't think. The 8 core is now going to be a $600 part, rather than an $1100 one. That's ~$1000-$1200 difference after the Apple mark up.
 
People saying that the Mac Pro tower is dead did not pay attention to the impromptu meeting Apple had with several tech journalists where they said that a new Modular Mac Pro would be released sometime next year.

iMac Pro is a stopgap.
 
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weezerr said:
Apple is so tone deaf.

iMac Pro, the product no one asked for.
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You seem not to understand that everyone who doesn't think like you is not "no one".

And jesus, people, what is the point of dooming and glooming on a damn internet forum if you prove you haven't actually paid attention to any news recently? Why proudly proclaim how ignorant you are?
 
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