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It’s official! New Mac Pro
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[Lance Moody] “[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.”
Isn’t this a bit of a ridiculous comment? Yes you COULD upgrade the previous pro machines in ways you cannot on this new machine. You could choose your graphics card, you could add internal hard drives, you could add optical drives. You cannot do any of that on this machine without external boxes and cables.
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[Chris Lehmann] “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.”
Well, guess that goers to show that “all” expandability might not be through Thunderbolt. It all depends on how you define expandable.
I’ll wait until they come out and early adopters have run it through its paces before I decide. I mean I don’t really like the concept of closed systems, however I have been using a 2010 imac and have been fairly happy with it.
Until I get the detailed specs and reports from a goodly amount of folks that have driven the mac pro around the block, I am not sure how I feel about it. Price will also be a big factor. I am just glad we finally have something tangible so we can start planning a yay or a nay on whether to continue on with Apple.
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No Lance – I mean compared to “real” workstations on any platform, where you can easily replace anything which needs replacement. What’s fascinating is your lightning attack on anything that doesn’t smack of fan-ism.
Joe Bourke
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Bourke Media
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Actually the ridiculous quote mentions CPU. You don’t yet know that you cant upgrade the graphics card and external storage is the main way that most actual real editors doing actual real work do things anyway.
Where are all of the idiots who were saying that there would not be a pro machine?
This forum is full of people who deserve Windows and always will deserve windows.
Lance
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“No Lance – I mean compared to “real” workstations on any platform, where you can easily replace anything which needs replacement. What’s fascinating is your lightning attack on anything that doesn’t smack of fan-ism.”
And which components have you confirmed can not be replaced?
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[Lance Moody] ”
You mean like you could upgrade all the previous pro machines? The ridiculous comments are facinating.”What..?
Is this satire?
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[Joseph W. Bourke] ” it’s small – way too small…calling anything slightly larger than a beer can “Pro” smacks of arrogance.”
Really?
What does size have to do with power and innovation? Of all the things to question, size seems a bit irrelevant in 2013. -
Thanks Lance – I’ve earned my living over many years in television and graphics, and used both Macs and PCs. It’s a personal choice. If you’re trying to say that one is superior over the other, you’re just a fanboy who should be ignored in any intelligent conversation.
Joe Bourke
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Hi Jim –
I retracted that statement quite a bit back in the thread as nonsensical. It was size as effects configurability that bothered me, and I wasn’t clear in my statement.
Joe Bourke
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This place is just so amazing. Are we all really this old and intolerant of change?
Apple addresses exactly what we’ve been looking for. A new Pro machine with lots of horsepower.
AND (and this is amazing!) they even took a significant chunk of the keynote and specifically told us that they’re re-coding parts of FCP-X to works DIRECTLY with the new hardware design.
Unlike the others, they aren’t elevating the needs of photo editors, or network administrators, or some other niche – nope, they’re on-stage specifically talking about a machine designed to work for VIDEO …. IN THE FREEKING KEYNOTE!
And all anyone want’s to do is bitch and whine about the possible shortcomings of a thing that’s only been just previewed without anything but a cursory intro of design goals and capabilities.
This is certainly the crankiest place on the internet right now.
Oh well. At least the forum looks like it might be going two for two. X waa a disaster right up until everyone started realizing out it actually wasn’t, at ALL.
Methinks, here we go again.
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