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

[Itamar Naamani]

You’re funny. High end GPU? Did you look at the specs? That’s not a high end GPU. They didn’t update them. Didn’t even bother. It’s a future retina iMac or no more Mac .

[Erik Lundberg]

[Chris Harlan] “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.”

From https://www.apple.com/macpro/features/processor.html:

They mention the word “Xeon” not only once, but five times. If my counting skills are up to date.

Erik Lundberg

Technical Director, Media Technology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

[Frank Gothmann]

[Erik Lundberg] “They mention the word “Xeon” not only once, but five times. If my counting skills are up to date.”

Yeah, but that’s not what he meant. The magic word is Westmare, ie, the old stuff from yesterday we gonne give you for your hard earned cash.

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[Michael Sanders]

Er isn’t that’s the point?

You don’t have to buy one from Apple.. if they were tied to thunderbolt the range would be limited. Surely THE entire point of PCIe

Surely its up to AMD, Nvida etc to update the GPUs?

Or are you a troll, cause seriously I’m not in the mood for that.

Michael Sanders
London Based DP/Editor

[Nevin Styre]

I wonder if intel was running out of the old slower processors but still had/has stock of the slightly faster ones, forcing this mild refresh.

[Erik Lundberg]

YEAH! And I’m stupid and tired. Just finally realized what you meant. bleh.

Erik Lundberg

Technical Director, Media Technology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

[Erik Lundberg]

[Frank Gothmann] “Yeah, but that’s not what he meant”

Yup. My brain just woke up. Finally.

Erik Lundberg

Technical Director, Media Technology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

[Chris Harlan]

[Michael Sanders] “Surely its up to AMD, Nvida etc to update the GPUs?

Or are you a troll, cause seriously I’m not in the mood for that.
“

Hardly. He’s not a troll at all. His point is that those particular GPUs are ancient and severely underpowered compared to other options available on other workstations.

[Chris Harlan]

[Erik Lundberg] “Yup. My brain just woke up. Finally.”

There you go. On another note, though, there’s a claim about that maybe they have been updated to current processors, and that the site has not caught up yet. I’m dubious about that, but we shall see.

[Itamar Naamani]

Listen i’m not trolling. I’m making my living on these machines and i’m not happy about seeing the line come to an end- at least not with a viable alternative in the mac world at this point. I don’t believe that if Apple is serious about the Mac Pro they would’ve updated it in this way. If the problem is thunderbolt and the GPU. Well then, what about no thunderbolt and updated GPU’s while they figure it out. I even wonder why they even bothered with this silly update. This is just clearing out old stock. It’s over