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MP 7,1 Waiting for Mac Pro 7,1 A1991 (no more)
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Curiously, this is the *rumor* with some basis, KGI 'predicted' an thicker MBP with 32GB ram and more powerful cpu/gpu later this year.
About the Mac mini, I don't know Maybe Apple will surprise Us, I don't care I'm not in the market neither for the 32Gb MBP, nor the mini, only the MP / iMacPro appeals to me, I doubt Apple to introduce any server-specific configuration for the mini, MacOS server its almost dead, irrelevant to say.
Not sure what constitutes enough to justify an event. Tim and Co. just said at the last event that “this is our iPhone lineup for the holidays”... that ever crucial selling time. I would imagine Apple would take the opportunity to show off HomePod and possibly iMac Pro and other new rev accessories (air power AirPod case? Keyboard? Who knows... possibly winter color watch bands etc.)
In any case I think we’re up for another Apple event before the end of the year... to what extent it’ll be will be up to what they are showing off. It could easily be a 60-90 minute event. It is worth noting (imho) that Apple is releasing High Sierra at the end of the month, as opposed to weeks (month or so) after iOS 11, in recent years it has been much later in the fall (iirc). I doubt we’ll see anything on the Mac front that we don’t already know about-a super MBP wouldn’t be a major surprise, Although a welcome one. In the end I just don’t think Apple has anything super secret to unveil like iPhone x (which we all knew about if you follow macrumors 9to5mac and others).
I really think they’ll take the opportunity to remind people about their latest offerings for the holiday quarter. I could see it during the last week of October reminding people about iPhone X pre-orders etc.
you can tell none of this is true because it's stuff people want.
With all the Coffee Lake rumors we could have an iMac shipping by Christmas, right? It would be kind nuts given the recent release of the Kaby Lake iMac, but how is Apple going to justify selling a 4 core iMac when Intel moves to 6? Even for them, that's a hard sell. Especially now that prices have creeped up to the $2500+ range for well configured top end i7 model.
This is not meant to be dick sounding. More just an observation. What apple users want, and what apple users are willing to pay for are very different things. Its like over in the MacBook pro section where people complain about the screen and how they want a hyper accurate perfect from all angles screen sort of like on an eizo monitor yet they don't realise that those kinds of screens cost more then the whole laptop does.
I personally don't see it, otherwise they would have taken the battery and thickness hit last year when they redesigned it. Apple will wait until Intel supports LPDDR4 at 32GB(+) capacities with Cannon Lake.
I personally do not believe there will be another event this year. iMac Pro and HomePods will just launch in December with a Press Release.
What a significant section of Apple users want, is Alienware configs / pricepoints, in a less vulgar enclosure.
My latest personal predictions about the mMP is Modular propietary GPU, single/dual configurations from single RX570 to Dual Vega 20, single socket Xeon or AMD Epyc, 4 USB3 6 TB3, dual NVMe not bigger than twice the trashcan, Apple needs to show it, many people are assembling Hackintoshes (and learning how cheap are).
About the iMac pro, I read somewhere that Apple may have reconsider to allow user to upgrade tis ram and make its ram modules user-accessible and replaceable.
I believe there comes also a Mac Mini along an Apple Branded TB 5K display ( maybe even with eGPU, but not 8K), but I doubt the new Mac mini will differ so much from current except it wont include spinner hdd, and may include dGPU RX570, maybe the first mac with an AMD APU on board.
About the MBP, those using it as desktop replacement needs a 32GB version, also the soldered SSD has become a nightmare for applecare so is very likely apple to switchback to a discrete proprietary NVMe.
About the iPad mini, despite having the 9.7"iPad available even cheaper, the mini still sells good, maybe Apple wil update it somehow, I know a lo of pros that loves the iPad mini (airplane pilots, nurses, people that needs an tablet but also need it to be as compact as possible).
Apple repeated a final year event last two years by early November, i dont discard it.
I've been thinking about the same possibility that there's going to be a proprietary, maybe PCI-E 4.0 connector, and Apple will license it to one or two GPU manufacturers.
Maybe Mini will join the concept too? So it is like a dock, where you put either a mini or Pro on top of the dock, and there's pci-e 4.0 connector in the middle? Mini is a thin pizza box, Pro is thicker and they can be run alone or plugged on top of the extension box.
You should have matched the Dell 7000 mobile workstation - upto 64 GiB ECC, 8 GiB Quadro M5000M, up to three NVME SSDs
They certainly have the time to modify the case to put in an access door.
I think we could see a Mac Mini update with the new Mac Pro considering Apple appears to be polling customers about the model. Still don't think it is going to come with a dGPU because Apple would rather sell you an iMac 4K/5K. but it will now be quad-core again if for no other reason that will be Intel's entry-level configuration.
We've heard rumors an 8K monitor will launch for the new Mac Pro and if they're doing that, I would not be surprised if they also launch a 5K monitor.
I still think Apple will wait for Cannon Lake to offer a 32GB+ configuration and will continue with soldered RAM and SSDs to maintain the thin form factor.
I believe the Mini is not long for the world, though Apple might keep it around for Enterprise customers (so they would no longer offer it for consumer sale).
There was an October event in 2016 to introduce the new MacBook Pro and in 2012 to launch the thinner iMac, iPad Retina and the iPad Mini, but there were no post-iPhone launch (September) events in 2013, 2014 or 2015. And I don't see one happening in 2017 since they updated the iMac and MacBook portable line at WWDC, already.
They've already stated the new Mac Pro will be released before the end of the year, along with a Pro standalone display, those along with the iMac Pro and any new accessories would be enough for an event combined with the usual stuff they talk about in the beginning.
We saw 2013 October event coming with iPad Air and 2014 October event with iPad Air 2/iMac 5K. Nothing on 2015 because they already has a spring event with MB.
They literally said the exact opposite...that the Mac Pro WILL NOT be released this year.
Whether or not they preview it is anyone's guess.
I think they said exactly the opposite. The new "modular Mac Pro" will not be ready or seen or maybe not even heard of anymore this year. Nor did they confirm it will be seen or debut next year (2018) either.
I am waiting, like maybe most of us concurrent cMP users are. But we ain't waiting forever.
ed. was not fast enough..
You should have matched the Dell 7000 mobile workstation - upto 64 GiB ECC, 8 GiB Quadro M5000M, up to three NVME SSDs
Pff good luck getting apple to do a macbook like that. Hilarious.
OK, all at the same time
Not before 2018, IIRC. That could even mean 2019 for all we know, or later. Or never
Not before 2018, IIRC. That could even mean 2019 for all we know, or later. Or never
Once you get the Amigos to realize that there are paying customers who value power over thinness, the possibilities for the fMBP (fat MacBook Pro) are unlimited.
I'd be surprised to see any Mac Pro talk before the iMac Pro launch, but it's not impossible.
I've heard rumors of a "fix it" pro release for the MacBook Pro but no specifics.
So far I've heard that discrete SSDs is a no go on the MacBook Pro but that was a while ago. Depends how scared Apple is of losing the Pro market right now I'd suppose. They could also push forward the new Mac Pro design if they were really freaked out, but I've been assuming that the people who would be working on the Mac Pro are busy with the iMac Pro now.
I've heard rumors of a "fix it" pro release for the MacBook Pro but no specifics.
So far I've heard that discrete SSDs is a no go on the MacBook Pro but that was a while ago. Depends how scared Apple is of losing the Pro market right now I'd suppose. They could also push forward the new Mac Pro design if they were really freaked out, but I've been assuming that the people who would be working on the Mac Pro are busy with the iMac Pro now.
HP Updates Z8 Workstations: Up to 56 Cores, 3 TB RAM, 9 PCIe Slots, 1700W
http://www.anandtech.com/show/11838...on-up-to-56-cores-3-tb-ram-9-pcie-slots-1700w
HP's workstation machines would seem to be (pretty much) an ideal design for an updated MacPro.
Just do what it would take for HP's factory to optionally offer a macOS compatible firmware, and be done with it.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/11838...on-up-to-56-cores-3-tb-ram-9-pcie-slots-1700w
HP's workstation machines would seem to be (pretty much) an ideal design for an updated MacPro.
Just do what it would take for HP's factory to optionally offer a macOS compatible firmware, and be done with it.
Why not push Apple to support the industry-standard UEFI firmware? Really, if there's a standard why accept that Apple has a proprietary BIOS?