Grant Petty on the new MP

[Bill Davis]

Appears to be the first report from somebody with actual access to a working New Mac Pro prototype testing it with actual working software.

What an odd situation upon which to base ones opinions… ; )

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[Jim Giberti]

I like everything I see so far.
I can’t imagine it will have 8 GB of RAM soldered to the board, and price is still unknown but I’m betting this is a well thought out environment that’s been in development along with FCPX for a while now.

[Lance Bachelder]

That’s a very positive report! Thanks for posting.

Lance Bachelder
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Downtown Long Beach, California
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[Aindreas Gallagher]

he sounds rather keen? I mean doesn’t it sound a bit savage? OK its got game console logic in that your buy degrades a bit over the lifecycle vs a rock your own PC build – but that thing does sound a little insane as a semi-ignorant?
plonk that on your desk and you’re likely to be pretty happy for quite some time right?

(also – isn’t it a little mad that the intro vid felt like a PS3/X unveiling or something? also the box design? It really does feel like a ‘roided out creative pro console. It’s definitely walled off in apple design language.)

bar that – at least it means that apple have built a brand new architecture for the pro going forward. an absolutely brand spanking new engineering base template for them to iterate from? surely people are happy about that given there was a freakout that they were going to potentially EOL pro hardware?

because lets be fair – that mentaller little black cylinder is in no f*#king way a consumer desktop.
like it or not so much – that is apple building purely for pros.

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[Lance Bachelder]

In looking at the current ATI product line there is nothing quite like what Apple is talking about here as far as horsepower – I’m assuming the graphics are also bleeding edge and meant to give us some future-proof comfort. Also, The ATI Fire line supports true 10bit output like Quadro so along with Thunderbolt 2 and HDMI 1.4 built in, we may finally have 10bit output with no additional I/O needed.

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Downtown Long Beach, California
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[Andrew Kimery]

[Aindreas Gallagher] “OK its got game console logic in that your buy degrades a bit over the lifecycle vs a rock your own PC build”

A key difference of course being that all software and hardware is designed specifically for that game console. No one is going to optimize software to the point that it that only runs on a 2013 Mac Pro Tube.

[Jim Giberti]

I think that’s the most salient point of the whole announcement – they’ve ended the “we pros have been been abandoned by Apple” line of thinking and created a whole new commitment . Personally and professionally I think it’s great. I also think it was good to make the commitment to FCPX that we did.
I’m thinking it will all come together in this next year.

Professionally speaking.

[Erik Lindahl]

From the given specs it sounds like two high end or even next-gen GPUs. Seems we’re stuck with single CPU-systems though, no?

[Herb Sevush]

[Aindreas Gallagher] “that is apple building purely for pros.”

But for which pros? There is apparently a cutoff point beyond which they do not care to go. Another trade off of walled-in simplicity for higher end power. I think the market targeting of their new “high-end” work station goes hand in hand with their marketing of X – we will go this far and no further: abandon all hope of Tesla ye who enters here.

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[Dan Stewart]

I’m hoping we will see some increased performance from the limited variations in the system- especially the GPU system. Cubix will still work -presumably- but the muscle that can be taken for granted has to be a major plus.