Apple hardware Q4 and 2014

[Derek Andonian]

[Oliver Peters] Wonder if they are waiting for 20Gb/s Tbolt in 2014 from Intel?

If you ask me, everyone who thinks Apple is waiting on some sort of new technology before they upgrade the Mac Pro is only kidding themselves. 20 Gigabit Thunderbolt sounds amazing, but It’s been, what- three and a half years now or something? That’s AT LEAST two full refresh cycles! Surely they could throw SOMETHING appealing together in the meantime…

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“Up until here, we still have enough track to stop the locomotive before it plunges into the ravine… But after this windmill it’s the future or bust.”

[Dave Jenkins]

He said “fall” so that’s still 2013. Can only hope that’s a MacPro this year.

amazing new hardware and software services in development, but they won’t be introduced until the fall and throughout 2014.

Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-says-it-has-no-new-products-coming-until-the-fall-2013-4#ixzz2RXYWARLa

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[Bret Williams]

I didn’t see that applying to MacPros one way or the other as they don’t make a dent in the bottom line. IOW, it’s meaningless to all but a niche group, and therefore doesn’t fall into the amazing new products category.

[Chris Harlan]

[Oliver Peters] “Sounds like no new Mac Pro this year. Wonder if they are waiting for 20Gb/s Tbolt in 2014 from Intel?
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Hey, I took a look inside those HP Zs at NAB. They were pretty snazzy.

[Paul Jay]

No Xeon/thunderbolt support.
Ivy bridge needs more cores.
Nobody talks about this fact.

[Andy Field]

Didn’t Tim Cook say we’d see something amazing this year? Wait Steve Jobs said that about FCP X- the “you pay to alpha test it version”

[Mathieu Ghekiere]

No he said: “amazing hardware and software this fall and troughout 2014”. I would hope this fall for something pro-orientated.

[Derek Andonian]

[Andy Field] Didn’t Tim Cook say we’d see something amazing this year?

I don’t remember his exact words, but it was something like this:

“Although we didn’t talk about a new Mac Pro at WWDC, we have something really great for our pro users planned for later next year.”

So with that in mind, Fall seems like a reasonable timeframe.

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“Up until here, we still have enough track to stop the locomotive before it plunges into the ravine… But after this windmill it’s the future or bust.”

[Bernard Newnham]

Surely Apple is now an iGadget company, and almost not a computer maker at all. Their huge profits are made by iPhones, and the huge drop in their share price is based on Samsung now beating them in sales. Having set themselves on this course, they have to keep introducing new sorts of iToys, otherwise investors will take their cash elsewhere – an iPhone X just won’t cut it. I’m still betting on 2015 as a crunch point – and also holding on to my ARM shares.

With their cash mountain they could have just kept churning out new model MacPros every few months if they’d wanted to. They are, after all, just PCs running a different operating system. Apple don’t want to make PCs any more, so they aren’t, apart from the high margin pretty toys that don’t expand without new technology which isn’t – and may never be – well supported in the industry outside Apple. Just like Firewire 800 was(n’t).

If I was a psychology student, I’d ask the Cow for a complete listing of this forum over the past two years – it’s been amazing watching the hopes, fears and aspirations, which seem to have really reached a close now, as most seem to be migrating to Premiere Pro. Probably, very quietly, they’re picking the PC based version, since they can have new expandable gear whenever they wish.

Bernie

[Derek Andonian]

Bernard Newnham it’s been amazing watching the hopes, fears and aspirations, which seem to have really reached a close now, as most seem to be migrating to Premiere Pro. Probably, very quietly, they’re picking the PC based version, since they can have new expandable gear whenever they wish.

This new Premiere Pro certainly could make things interesting if the “really great” Mac Pro fails to impress. Because if this thing lives up to the hype there will be- for the first time- a real, bona fide, honest-to-goodness FCP7 equivalent on the PC platform.

An HP Z-series or something similar with the next Premiere Pro loaded on it will be a force to be reckoned with- especially now that multiple GPUs can be utilized for encoding…

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“Up until here, we still have enough track to stop the locomotive before it plunges into the ravine… But after this windmill it’s the future or bust.”