New Mac Pro? I’m waiting patiently

[Thomas Frank]

What? Who the hell said that some guy on a blog???
ON your 600k for a trojan is not that bad if you consider how many get infected on daily basis in the Windows world.

Back on the Mac Pro who said that Mac Pro is end of life? If it would we would have seen it.
Question is what is next a power full iMac or another Mac Pro?

[Frank Gothmann]

[Thomas Frank] “What? Who the hell said that some guy on a blog???
ON your 600k for a trojan is not that bad if you consider how many get infected on daily basis in the Windows world.”

Said what?
The info about the 600k infections is coming from a security firm and not “some buy on a blog”. Plus it’s been published on lots of other tech sites as well.
That fact that windows 7 is more secure than OSX is nothing new and this, too, has been well publicised in the past.

It’s irrelevant how many are infected on a daily basis if you don’t look at market share and why there is currently less infection on the Mac platform. It’s not because the Mac is more secure, period.

[Thomas Frank]

That secure companies are saying OSX is less Secure then Windows that would make Linux also less secure right… yup..

[Frank Gothmann]

[Thomas Frank] “That secure companies are saying OSX is less Secure then Windows that would make Linux also less secure right… yup..”

No!

[Shane Ross]

[Jeremy Garchow] “This post started with “I need a new MacPro, should I wait?” If Apple announced the denouement of the MacPro, do you think Jason would wait, or would he buy one? “

If he wants a MacPro…he should buy one now. The current model is…well, the current model. It won’t be updated. So if he wants a tower, and he wants a Mac, he should buy now. It won’t be updated, so a better one won’t come out in the future.

[Jeremy Garchow] “Look at what happened when FCP7 was discontinued, it sold out almost everywhere, that’s how you sell it out by saying it’s not going to be around anymore. “

It was just a guess. I’m not a businessman, I’m a creative editor. I have NO CLUE what they are thinking. WHy do they say “Hey, look at this new OS that won’t be released for 6 months. Isn’t it cool?” And yet until FCX, they never did that with FCP. You saw it the day it came out. And they don’t say “hey, soon we will discontinue this item” until it is time for them to discontinue the item.

[Jeremy Garchow] “I’d be curious as to what your reliable sources say.”

They don’t know what Apple is thinking. They just know that they aren’t working on updated boxes.

Shane
Little Frog Post
Read my blog, Little Frog in High Def

[Bobby Mosca]

Yes, all the IT people I know who are forced to work in Windows get a bonus for making stuff up about it.

[Thomas Frank]

Apple has pre-announce OS for awhile now. Nothing new here for all other Applications yes they don’t announce anything like other in the market.

I still like to know where you get this info that the Mac Pro is done… you might be right this model is but I think we will see something new with Xeon E5 Chips.
Don’t forget Tim Cook is more Enterprise friendly
“Tim Cook has met with corporate customers more often than Jobs did, doesn’t tend to insult those customers as Jobs did, and appreciates the needs of enterprises. But he doesn’t deviate from Jobs’ view that consumers are the priority for Apple.”

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Shane Ross] “”Hey, look at this new OS that won’t be released for 6 months. Isn’t it cool?” And yet until FCX, they never did that with FCP. You saw it the day it came out. And they don’t say “hey, soon we will discontinue this item” until it is time for them to discontinue the item. “

Because OSX is central to their development as a company, that’s why the peddle the OS early so that developers are on board when the OS is released. This is software.

Let’s look at recent history at the discontinuing of Apple hardware:

https://images.apple.com/xserve/pdf/L422277A_Xserve_Guide.pdf

So, if it’s not a MacPro, what are they working on? Your sources say nothing?

Jeremy

[Craig Seeman]

Wow, I’m busy for a day and I see the worlds longest thread on a subject we’ve beaten to death.

I’ll throw down my sixpence having read a bunch of the comments.
If Apple is even thinking about coming out with a Xeon multiprocessor box (let’s NOT call it a MacPro because that may well be dead . . . or it may not be) they’d probably keep their supply chain open (Tim Cook’s expertise) and that’s what’s happening so far.

If they’re already decided to kill the MacPro and/or use of Xeon multproc machines they’d just yank the plug. They wouldn’t likely keep a supply chain open on something that’s a money loser with high production costs and lows sales just for the heck of it.

If Apple’s coming out with an entirely new box it would be so “locked down” that either the rumor wouldn’t happen or it would be spreading like wildfire as link bait. AppleInsider would be spewing stuff they heard from cockroaches (or micro organisms) from an Apple facility. In short. My guess is whatever is happening is tightly locked down. If it’s death to MacPro AND Xeon based systems I can’t fathom a reason that that plug would have already been pulled publicly.

The only other thing I can think of is that Apple believes the next iMac is going to be such a killer machine that that’s when they’ll pull the plug publicly. One of the very few inklings of rumors is Apple offering an anti glare monitor which would really be of primary interest to people involved in photo, graphics, video. So that might be part of their killer iMac system.

[Craig Seeman]

[Jeremy Garchow] “Apple is a decently smart company. They have to know that the iDevice craze won’t last forever, and because it won’t last forever, what do they do after it? It is true that there’s no time like the present, and if you have success today, you have to leverage it, but do you think that Apple is short sighted to put themselves in a bubble? Why push something like Thunderbolt out in to the open? Thunderbolt has zero effect on iDevices. None.

I think the problem here is that Apple is looking too far ahead and is forgetting the present which is what is causing this uproar. The future they envision I am sure goes beyond an iDevice.

While Thunderbolt is not a problem solver for desktop computing today, it will be in a few short years. I do not think that Casey Dissmore is right (with all do respect). From copper to optical, Thunderbolt will change what a computer looks like, there’s no question.”

Nailed it IMHO.

First Halo (not the game of course). For a content creator who buys a MacPro, there’s likely to be a MacBookPro for portable use, an iMac or two for family use, and iPad or two in there as well as maybe a family of iPhones. Move that person to a Windows box and it can impact a ecosystem of sales.

Apple tends to be forward thinking and that certainly can be frustrating. Thunderbolt is in the earliest stages of some staggering changes if you just look at some of the things Intel talks about. One might guess that Apple’s relationship to Intel is not transitory.