“New” low end Mac Pro Quad now 3.2GHz… :-(

[Andrew Richards]

Marked “NEW”. Old guts. Stick a fork in it.

Best,
Andy

[Phil Hoppes]

Yea…. ok I was wrong…. they did not kill it. They put an IV into the same box but I think there is a hole in the bag and they are just going to let it drip all over the floor until it is officially pronounced dead.

Done debating this one. The patient is dead…. it just doesn’t know it yet.

[Itamar Naamani]

Updated but..No Sandy bridge. No thunderbolt. This is Apple’s way of saying it’s over.. It’s official now..

[Michael Benton]

I remember b4 the 2010 upgrade to the Mac Pro – they had a similar bump in speed b4 they did the official upgrade.

I am putting my money on a new upgrade around the 10.8 release with all the major upgrades discussed/highlighted in this great article by Chris Foreman:

https://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/06/what-should-the-long-awaited-mac-pro-update-look-like/

[Craig Seeman]

MacPro Zombie

[Chris Conlee]

Yeah, if we’d been using PCs we could have made THAT update ourselves ages ago. The fact that it took Apple Corporate to give us a processor upgrade is actually a reason I’m getting tired of this closed mentality. PCs here I come… again.

Chris

[Chris Harlan]

[Andrew Richards] “Marked “NEW”. Old guts. Stick a fork in it.
“

I absolutely LOVE the fact that they can’t bring themselves to use the name of the XEON processors, which they had no problem doing until this morning. You have to dig for processor product numbers to confirm that they are ancient chips.

[Michael Sanders]

No it doesn’t!

Seriously don’t people get it? OK USB 3 could have been there but that (I assume) would have mean a logic board redesign. But the big issues is with thunderbolt. As I postulated here and was summed up somewhere (Poss: Arstechnica) some days ago its a really big deal.

Thunderbolt has to (so we are told) carry the display data as well and if that’s the case how do get the current range of high end PCIe GPUS that we all want for high end work to send the display data back to thunderbolt?

Other than having a external return cable which is highly un apple I can’t see how it can easily be done.

Michael Sanders
London Based DP/Editor

[Chris Tomberlin]

Isn’t anybody else getting tired of Apple yanking the professional’s chain?

To think that FCPX and a laptop is all the “PRO” would ever need is just a fundamental misunderstanding of what many pros need. How am I going to get 48GB of ram, and 16 cores in a laptop?

Chris Tomberlin
Editor/Compositor/Owner
OutPost Pictures

[Chris Harlan]

Sorry, man. You’ll just have to dream that dream by yourself.