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New Mac Pro or EOL coming soon?
UK store still showing 3 days for 8 Core Mac Pros as are a few more countries that had stock last week.
US and Canadian stores still have them though, I’m still hoping for an announcement either way soon!
Steve Connor
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Apple’s timetables can be s a bit inscrutable as we attempt to reach the channel flow. It would seem that getting a new model out before NAB would be good for marketing assuming some vendors would use such models as party of their NAB booths. If that were not possible (I’m not sure it is) then the timetable is pretty much do whim.
I personally think the channels are still functioning despite what is probably now minuscule sales simply to have the supply chain ready for new machines. I can’t see a reason to delay EOL if that’s their end game since such a call would clean what’s left in the channels anyway for those few who want to grab a last machine before they go away.
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You won’t get new Mac Pros until Intel’s new Ivy Bridge processors are released – pos last week of April.
Liam Hall
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So I’ve heard. I noted that I wasn’t sure it would be possible.
People do seem to keep throwing artificial deadlines around whereas the only real one is when the chips are ready and Apple can get them in quantity.
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waited till last minute due to year end budget.
Im glad there wont be any out for awhile.
refreshing a half-dozen Mac Pro’s is both exciting and exhausting 😛 -
Read somewhere that Intel is is opening up their 10 Gig-E licensing and will start to become standard in most computers. Hopefully this is the case with the new Mac Pros and or some sort of Networking SAN via Thunderbolt. I would think with Xsan being included in Lion they are not going to do away with the Mac Pro’s yet. Just my thoughts, they probably have holes, give me a break it’s the end of the day!
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[Steve Connor] “UK store still showing 3 days for 8 Core Mac Pros as are a few more countries that had stock last week.
US and Canadian stores still have them though, I’m still hoping for an announcement either way soon!
“I finally gave up waiting and went with a new 17″ and TBolt drives. I am enjoying the throughput, but who knows? Might be my last Mac. I’ll take another look in the fall, but right now my old 8 Core is good enough, and my 17″ is almost as good. Hopefully, by Fall, I’ll have some sense of to what degree the Mac platform remains.
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[Liam Hall] “You won’t get new Mac Pros until Intel’s new Ivy Bridge processors are released – pos last week of April.”
The Ivy Bridge chips coming this year are not Xeons, thus not dual processor. If Apple were going to abandon the Xeon in the Mac Pro, they could have done so last year with Sandy Bridge-E. Either there will be a new Mac Pro based on the E5-2600 Xeon that Intel just started shipping (the same chips that will go into the HP Z820), or there won’t be a new one at all.
Marco Arment lays it out well.
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[Chris Harlan] “I finally gave up waiting and went with a new 17″ and TBolt drives.”
Couldn’t pull that windows trigger quite yet, eh? 😉
Just kidding, congrats those new quad core MBPs are very nice.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Couldn’t pull that windows trigger quite yet, eh? 😉
“Hey, I used to think Windows was great, and I have no problem going back that way. Its the ProRes thing, right now. My large clients have it as their delivery spec, though some of them are actively investigating others. So, IMX, DNx–OS X has it covered, but it also has ProRes covered, which Windows does not. And FCS3 still has a lot of life in it here in LA. If a Mac Pro does emerge, I will probably stay OS X–at least for a few more years.
[Jeremy Garchow] “those new quad core MBPs are very nice”
The Thunderbolt is pretty spiffy. And, that’s on the small RAIDS.
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[Chris Harlan] “Hey, I used to think Windows was great, and I have no problem going back that way. Its the ProRes thing, right now. My large clients have it as their delivery spec, though some of them are actively investigating others. So, IMX, DNx–OS X has it covered, but it also has ProRes covered, which Windows does not. And FCS3 still has a lot of life in it here in LA. If a Mac Pro does emerge, I will probably stay OS X–at least for a few more years”
There’s plenty of ways to make ProRes movies from an external hardware recorder from a baseband video source.
The good thing is, if you need windows, you can use your MBP for just that purpose.
Did you read today that 51% of US households have an Apple product (according to a cnbc poll)? Craziness.
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