New Mac Pro? I’m waiting patiently

[Matt Gottshalk]

Well I am not waiting around for Apple.

Built a custom Windows 7 PC that is overclocked and watercooled.

Nvidia 580 1.5Ghz video card
64gb ram
Red Rocket Card
Maxx Digital External raid
BM Decklink 3d card.

Avid MC V6.0
Adobe Premiere CS5.5

Very happy with the speed and stability of the system and I look forward to trying it out with CS6 soon.

McGee Digital Media Inc.
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[Cade Muhlig]

Now my decision to go Hackintosh 1 1/2 years ago doesn’t look like such a bad idea.

[John Heagy]

[Paul Dickin] “It seems to me likely that any future Mac Pro introduced in 2012 would need to have the latest iteration of Thunderbolt built in”

I’m not so sure about TB in a MacPro if it has PCIe slots. Think about the difficulties in merging the monitor connectively built into TB with a third party GPU. Would third party GPUs require a TB port? Then the high speed data connectivity would be the issue.

The easiest would be to leave out monitor connectivity, but that would confuse users when they plug-in the monitor and it doesn’t work. Can’t see Apple doing that. This whole issue may be why HP isn’t big on TB.

It may be issues like this that is delaying the MacPro. Would PCIe 3 solve it?… another reason for the delay?

I for one would gladly take an updated MacPro with PCIe slots and forgo TB. TB is an “on the desk” interface and PCIe an “under the desk” and “In the data center” interface.

John Heagy

[Shane Ross]

My sources only said that Apple wasn’t going to update the MacPro…and was going to discontinue it. I’m not going to go asking them more and more questions.

And that document was from 2010…when they were also probably still thinking of doing FCP 8…and not swerving off to the tangent that is FCX.

Shane
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[Craig Seeman]

[John Heagy] “TB is an “on the desk” interface and PCIe an “under the desk” and “In the data center” interface.”

Thunderbolt means instead of buying a Video I/O for each machine, I can move it from any number of desktops to any number of laptops. It means if I want fast RAID I can move, I can now do that easily especially if it needs to travel with me.

I think the GPUs will be whatever Apple offers in BTO or you buy from them with the appropriate ports. I think the rumors around the a possible anti glare monitor indicate that somethings coming (assuming it’s true of course) unless they’re expecting to make the killer iMac with anti glare monitor and the option to buy a second.

There’s still a need for PCIe and PCIe 3 ups the anti a bit but I don’t think they’ll be PCIe 4x slots,

I’m not saying you’ll like the system but it’ll be Apple’s vision of the future.

[Craig Seeman]

[Shane Ross] “My sources only said that Apple wasn’t going to update the MacPro…and was going to discontinue it.”

I don’t doubt that. That doesn’t mean there won’t be a new machine with a different form.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Shane Ross] “‘m not going to go asking them more and more questions. “

No fun. 🙁

😀

[Chris Harlan]

[Shane Ross] “My sources only said that Apple wasn’t going to update the MacPro…and was going to discontinue it. I’m not going to go asking them more and more questions.

And that document was from 2010…when they were also probably still thinking of doing FCP 8…and not swerving off to the tangent that is FCX.”

I don’t think a lot of people really appreciate the degree to which the unprecedented success of the iPhone and its offspring have had on Apple. I can’t imagine such success NOT atrophying old business. Its like they were mining silver, but found a bunch of gems and rare earth metals. Sure, they could continue to make money on the silver, but everyone’s attention is on the big loot. Now, they’re just kicking chunks of silver out of their way on the way to the giant gem cavern. Pro Apps just has got to be the nowhere place to be at Apple, these days. I’m guessing everybody there wants into the gem cave. I’ve also noticed that all the big boy stock options vest just prior to the time that iDiamonds should reach worldwide saturation, so unless Apple has a lot more hidden in its sparkly cave, this iBonanza IS the big haul.

[Andrew Richards]

[Shane Ross] “And that document was from 2010…when they were also probably still thinking of doing FCP 8…and not swerving off to the tangent that is FCX.”

The Xserve EOL came on November 5th, 2010. They showed FCPX (privately) for the first time on February 22nd, 2011, 3 months and 17 days later. They showed it publicly at NAB a few months after that. So no, there was no “swerving” at that time. FCPX was late in development when the Xserve EOL was announced.

Best,
Andy

[Bret Williams]

For now. But if Apple isn’t making workstations, why would they create an OS that can power one? Why would they support pice cards if none of their computers have pice slots? Etc.