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Is the Mac Pro Dead?
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I wonder if anyones managed to gut an older Mac Pro and install their own parts ala Hackintosh.
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I know someone who gutted a G4 and still uses it as their main case.
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I’m betting on this “iMac Pro” packaging direction as well. There seemed to be alot of interest in the similar-looking HP product shown at Intel’s NAB booth last month.
If they limit the external I/O connectivity to Thunderbolt on any new professional workstation product, Apple will lose alot of the people who kept them in business for years when they should have gone under (1990s). They could be successful by unleashing an iMac Pro model featuring a dual Xeon, capacity for lots of RAM and disk storage, integrated Quadro 4000 GUI card, an open (and accessible) 16-channel PCIe slot, plus a couple of Thunderbolt ports.
If their intention was to kill off professional market interest in OSX, it would have been far more apparent to everyone by now.
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[Eric Fiegehen] “If they limit the external I/O connectivity to Thunderbolt on any new professional workstation product, Apple will lose alot of the people who kept them in business for years when they should have gone under (1990s)”
Thunderbolt is more or less 4xPCIe. There’s already means to do everything from RedRocket to FIber Channel through Thunderbolt. As long as they keep a couple of 16xPCie for GPUs and such, I think it’ll sell well.
While some might prefer discreet internal slots, being able to put a RAID, Monitor, Video I/O on one Thunderbolt connector should work fine. I’d hope such iMacPro has a couple of the new 4 lane Thunderbolt controllers so there can be 4 Thunderbolt ports. For many that would allow even more expansion than the current MacPros. Of course I’d also like to see one and two 6 core Xeon processor options.
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[Eric Fiegehen] “If their intention was to kill off professional market interest in OSX, it would have been far more apparent to everyone by now.
“Far more apparent? Kill off? I’m not really sure its a matter of intention as much as it is a matter of forgetting to put the food and water in the dishes in the next room, until one day the barking stops.
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“Far more apparent? Kill off? I’m not really sure its a matter of intention as much as it is a matter of forgetting to put the food and water in the dishes in the next room, until one day the barking stops.”
LOL – I guess some people require less subtlety, like a brick dropped on their heads.
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[Eric Fiegehen] “”Far more apparent? Kill off? I’m not really sure its a matter of intention as much as it is a matter of forgetting to put the food and water in the dishes in the next room, until one day the barking stops.”
LOL – I guess some people require less subtlety, like a brick dropped on their heads.
“Hey man, I would totally dig it if a new Mac Pro came out, or even an iMacPro. I’ve just decided to stop torturing myself with thoughts of what if. I figure she’s got herself a new boyfriend, and that’s fine. I’m not gonna sit around and wait for the phone to ring. I figure if we run into each other in a couple of years, and we’re both still single–well, who knows.
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LOL – I like your outlook on things Chris. If you can’t be optimistic, you can still have a good sense of humor…
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