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New Mac Pro – ATI 5770 and no USB 3 ?
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No 6gb/s SATA drive support or esata support as well.
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Although I will not stand in line for hours to buy the $5000 12 core base machine, I am glad to see a departure from the iPod, iPhone & iPad hoopla. A newer Mac Pro obviously geared for Professionals, is a plus in my eyes. Is this just the beginning that will mark a serious return to Pro App development? My only fear is that this will be the Only machine able to release that “Awesomeness”, as Steve Jobs calls it, in the next release of FCStudio.
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Wasn’t Apple a leader when it came to new technologies? USB 2.0 and Firewire 800? Those are like 7 years old. We need fast I/O, and with the limited number of slots, I usually don’t have any space for another PCI card (esata, usb 3, etc).
Call me disappointed. But the good news is that it should be cheaper?
-Peter
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Just as an aside I noticed the new Mac Pro is only mentioned on Apple’s Mac Pro page. It isn’t mentioned on Apple’s main page nor is it mentioned on the “Mac” page.
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Nothing to see here folks. Move along.
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Wasn’t Apple a leader when it came to new technologies? USB 2.0 and Firewire 800? Those are like 7 years old. We need fast I/O, and with the limited number of slots, I usually don’t have any space for another PCI card (esata, usb 3, etc).
Lets not forget Light Peak, said to debut in new Macs in 2010 according to this engadget article
https://www.engadget.com/2009/09/26/exclusive-apple-dictated-light-peak-creation-to-intel-could-be/
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[Peter Berg] “Wasn’t Apple a leader when it came to new technologies? USB 2.0 and Firewire 800? Those are like 7 years old.”
Apple has rarely been first in line. They developed FW of course, but USB came out in 1996, and the first Mac to support it was the iMac G3 in 1998.
MP3 was developed in 1993, but wasn’t supported until QuickTime 4 in 1999. My memory is fuzzy on this, but I think that the first Apple software to support *ripping* to MP3 was iTunes, introduced in 2001.
Heck, Macs were out for 3 years before the first model to support to COLOR was released! Not the software – I mean anything besides black and white. This was back in 1987.
Even though the timing in the article Victor links to is way off, it suggests that Apple is thinking of USB 3 as transitional enough to choose not to deal with it at all. Hmmm….
That is in fact what Steve reiterated about Blu-ray in another of his recent customer emails, that BD is a transitional format, already well along the way to being replaced by streaming and downloads.
I don’t think it’s that simple, but I agree more than I don’t. As noted earlier in this thread, though, Walter is right. You could have had a Blu-ray drive for your Mac years ago. You can have one today. No excuses. If you want one, get one.
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[Tim Wilson] “Apple has rarely been first in line. They developed FW of course, but USB came out in 1996, and the first Mac to support it was the iMac G3 in 1998. “
Apple didn’t develop USB, but I think they played a large role in popularizing it. Windows didn’t support USB devices without third-party drivers until Windows 98, and a great many early USB devices were translucent Bondi blue to match the iMac.
[Tim Wilson] “That is in fact what Steve reiterated about Blu-ray in another of his recent customer emails, that BD is a transitional format, already well along the way to being replaced by streaming and downloads. I don’t think it’s that simple, but I agree more than I don’t. As noted earlier in this thread, though, Walter is right. You could have had a Blu-ray drive for your Mac years ago. You can have one today. No excuses. If you want one, get one.”
Like you’ve both mentioned, I’ve been using Blu-ray with my Mac for a couple years — but it would be really nice if I could actually play a Blu-ray disc in my Mac.
The lack of NVIDIA cards and USB 3 in the overdue Mac Pro update does make it look like Apple is either unaware of — or doesn’t care about — the developers building a production ecosystem around the Apple platform. I’d be curious to see how Adobe, Autodesk, and Blackmagic Design feel about the new systems.
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Maybe one of us needs to email Steve about his company’s apparent lack of interest in pro-apps/machines…. See if we can get one of his cryptic emails, consisting of one sentence that could mean anything….
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[Winston A. Cely] “See if we can get one of his cryptic emails, consisting of one sentence that could mean anything….”
“The new Mac Pros are swell!” Steve
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