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It’s official! New Mac Pro
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Frank, this is the way forward..
It’s not stone tools and animal skins any more.
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Steve –
You’re absolutely correct – it is a strange comment – it was one of my first thoughts, and I should have left it on the table. I should have gone more with my “non-standard” feelings, rather than size. I see nothing wrong with industrial design which works hand in hand with the technology – I think that it’s the self-containment and lack of user serviceable parts that bothers me the most. I sincerely hope that it works out for those here who’ve been waiting for a long time. It’s certainly got power – but I think that the lack of the ability to upgrade the cpu and other components will make it an orphan sooner than you think.
Joe Bourke
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Man, tough crowd. At first blush, I think it looks like a vast improvement over current options. With no benchmarks, though, hard to say. But the specs quoted make it look pretty impressive. Plus, hub and spoke concept means you buy what you need. But for me, rack-mounting is not something I need or want.
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[Joseph W. Bourke] “but I think that the lack of the ability to upgrade the cpu and other components will make it an orphan sooner than you think.”
I disagree, I think Apple are targeting the Pros that don’t like upgrading their machines and in my experience that’s almost everyone I’ve met in my corner of the creative industry. The guys I know who really need the speed for things like serious 3D work abandoned Apple a long time ago.
This will fit a very nice niche for Apple just above a fully specced iMac and give them the visibility in a chunk of the “Pro” space
Steve Connor
There’s nothing we can’t argue about on the FCPX COW Forum
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[Michael Hadley] “Man, tough crowd. At first blush, I think it looks like a vast improvement over current options. With no benchmarks, though, hard to say. But the specs quoted make it look pretty impressive. Plus, hub and spoke concept means you buy what you need. But for me, rack-mounting is not something I need or want.”
Unfortunately the curent options are from 2010 so that’s not much of a compliment. 😉
The hub and spoke model will be great for some and not great for others. Hopefully it will mean the base price is relatively low. If it’s not the Tube will be the Cube 2.0.
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[Steve Connor] “I disagree, I think Apple are targeting the Pros that don’t like upgrading their machines and in my experience that’s almost everyone I’ve met in my corner of the creative industry”
I don’t know. A lot of folks I know, even if they upgraded nothing else, at least upgraded RAM. Apple was so pricey, and cheaper alternatives were out there.
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[Clint Wardlow] “I don’t know. A lot of folks I know, even if they upgraded nothing else, at least upgraded RAM. Apple was so pricey, and cheaper alternatives were out there.”
https://www.apple.com/mac-pro/
You can upgrade RAM I think
Steve Connor
There’s nothing we can’t argue about on the FCPX COW Forum
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No this is the way backwards. This isn’t stone tools and animal skins. It’s an xacto knife and spandex.
How is being limited to a single processor moving forward? Tundebolt 2.0 is NOT NOT NOT fast enough for high speed expansion for graphics or processing. -
According to the animations on the apple site, the whole cylindrical case slides off once the locking tab on the back is released. RAM trays fold out and are user upgradable. The flash storage looks like it just clips in, so that should be user upgradable as well.
The graphics cards look like they might be on removable trays too, although the way they come out in the animation could just be to show how it all fits together. If they are upgradable, it looks like only special apple cards would work.
Over all it’s pretty much what I expected, focus on GPU over CPU. More reliance on external thunderbolt technology and not a giant box.
I’ll be curious to see what they cost and if it’s time to replace my 2009 mac pro with this new one or a top of the line imac.
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[Joseph W. Bourke] “but I think that the lack of the ability to upgrade the cpu and other components will make it an orphan sooner than you think.”
You mean like you could upgrade all the previous pro machines? The ridiculous comments are facinating.
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