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OT: Apple to drop Mac Pro?
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[Bill Davis] “What’s wrong with we all buy the same keyboard, the display real-estate we need, then we buy the CPU box we want?”
Nothing! That’s certainly the way I’d like it to be.
The question is this: which choices will Apple offer? If this rumor is true, there may not be a Mac workstation to consider.
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Vaporware. Craig, you’ve had some great ideas and I wish Apple would hire you, but the speculation is piling up and ship isn’t turning. Iceberg ahead.
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What’s wrong with this is that it is completely fiction. It’s like saying it is ok eol all cars tomorrow because one day there will be a holo-deck that can beam you to Australia in a second.
The report was not that Apple considers abandoning the Macpro for a super-duper new type of powerhouse that can do everything but will be just smaller.
It was that Apple considers dropping it and nothing else. To go from this to speculating about how wonderful a new world with stacked external cpu boxes will be is… a reality distortion field. -
[Bobby Mosca] “Vaporware. Craig, you’ve had some great ideas and I wish Apple would hire you, but the speculation is piling up and ship isn’t turning. Iceberg ahead.”
Why shouldn’t he speculate, Apple dropping Mac Pro’s is just speculation anyway.
“My Name is Steve and I’m an FCPX user”
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[Gary Huff] “It’s also possible that Apple will leave traditional computing entirely and move fully into the iOS ecosystem.”
And this is why Apple continues to grow market share and revenue with “traditional” computers like laptops and iMacs?
If you look at their last financials their computer revenue were close to that of iPad (iPhone dwarfed everything though).https://www.splatf.com/2011/10/apple-4q11-charts/
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https://www.macstories.net/news/apple-q4-2011-results-28-27-billion-revenue-17-07-million-iphones-11-12-million-ipads-4-89-million-macs-sold/Although Apple doesn’t break down computer by individual product it would seem that MacPro is the poorest performer and they’d replace it with something with wider reach while also designing to lower manufacturing and component cost (by enabling larger bulk orders).
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[Gary Huff] “[Craig Seeman] Put your MacPro on it’s side. Get rid of the handles and legs. Then cut the height down since it’ll only have two PCIe slots (one populated with GPU). You’re losing the optical drive as well as all the internal hard drive expansion. They’ll have to deal with air flow/cooling but I think it’s possible if not likely for Apple to head in this direction.
It’s also possible that Apple will leave traditional computing entirely and move fully into the iOS ecosystem.
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I hope they do, it’s Apples job to drive the future, even if it means casualties on the way. iOS is a great foundation for a future OS. Like some others here I’m not subscribing to the whole “sky is falling” idea, I’m excited about the future direction companies like Apple take.
“My Name is Steve and I’m an FCPX user”
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[Bobby Mosca] “Iceberg ahead.”
Apple’s doing just fine. Even FCPX is doing well even if not in the market this forum is in. It’s number grossing 2 in the App Store to Lion. Given it’s about 10x the price one might look at Lion sales and speculate how big what might be close to 10% or down to 5% or so that number is. EIther way it’s a very large number.
[Bobby Mosca] “Vaporware. Craig, you’ve had some great ideas and I wish Apple would hire you,”
I don’t doubt Ive has an even better design and Cook has the supply chain and component price worked out to make this new box a much better seller with higher revenue than the MacPro. It may not serve all Pros (It’s been easy to put together a more powerful Windows box for some time) but it will serve must Pros . . . and every Video I/O, RAID, etc, you buy for it will also hook up to your MacMini, MBAir, MBPro, iMac and the third party hardware developers have to like that expanded market . . . which can drive down prices due to the economy of scale.
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[Steve Connor] iOS is a great foundation for a future OS. Like some others here I’m not subscribing to the whole “sky is falling” idea, I’m excited about the future direction companies like Apple take.
Until you realize just how unsuitable iOS is for a professional work environment.
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Mac minis are quad core with dual hard drives these days, and it’s really small.
I do think we are on the precipice of change. It sucks to be stuck in the middle of it, but that’s where we are. We can see what’s ahead, but it’s just out of reach so the present looks a bit murky.
For now, I can still but a MacPro from an Apple reseller today.
Watson, will some day seem futile.
And on and on we go.
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[Gary Huff] “Until you realize just how unsuitable iOS is for a professional work environment.”
Well I’m assuming that iOS will mature considerably before it replaces OSX in the next few years.
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