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What will Apple do with the Macintosh?
https://appleinsider.com/articles/13/04/27/editorial-what-will-apple-do-with-the-macintosh
Interesting to see that $4M MacPros a quarter is considered a “fraction of the fraction”.
Michael
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[Michael Phillips] “Interesting to see that $4M MacPros a quarter is considered a “fraction of the fraction”.”
Those numbers are always staggering to me as well.
Still, a fraction of a fraction is not nothing!
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That’s a rounding error to Apple.
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Well, is 4 million not the total number of Mac’s they sell in a quarter, but not the Mac Pro’s alone?
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Exactly! I’ve described it this way to people: If you came to me and said you had a brilliant $1 million dollar a business year idea for Adobe, I’d thank you and politely explain that $1M a year isn’t big enough for a multi-billion dollar a year company to get involved with. Extrapolate for a company the size of Apple…
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The question is why Wouldn’t they continue with the MacPro? It doesn’t lose them money and fact that a very outdated MacPro is still selling means an all new, hopefully class leading, Mac Pro should sell considerably better.
Steve Connor
There’s nothing we can’t argue about on the FCPX COW Forum
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Maybe this is the answer to all the recent speculation about new MacPros (or Not), anyone heard about this? :
https://www.videoguys.com/Blog/PL/0xabeb295e9c3b07b0a4692863c64dbf38.aspx
Apple Plans Release In Late Fall Of OSX Licensed Systems
It’s the announcement video professionals have been waiting for – New Mac Pro workstations will be released later this year along with the next generation of OSX dubbed Stallion. In a surprise move Apple also announced that these new workstations will not be made by Apple, but their new OEM OSX License partners HP and Dell.
The first model to be released will be a new HP Z2 All-In-One workstation. New features include two Thunderbolt ports, Apple Fusion drive, NVIDIA Kepler based Quadro K-series GPU and integrated 27” HP Retina Dreamcolor display.
HP will also be releasing a new z900 quad Xeon workstation with four Thunderbolt ports, up to 256GB of RAM and three Nvidia Quadro Kepler cards.
Dell has also announced that they will be releasing a new line of Precision Workstations and Laptops later this year all running OSX Stallion.
The next generation OSX Stallion will be designed with a more open architecture, but also include an integrated licensing scheme that will tie into iTunes and the Apple app store.
Apple Director of OSX Licensing Sidd Finch said “OSX Stallion is optimized for multiple Xeon processors, up to 256GB of RAM and multiple NVIDIA Kepler based Quadro cards. In our tests running FCPX on the Z2 running OSX Stallion you can edit multiple streams of 2K footage in real-time. The Quad Xeon z900 Workstation can handle multiple layers of native 4K footage with ease.”
HP spokesman William Newell said “The combination of OSX Stallion and HP workstations will deliver more horsepower than creative content producers ever dreamed possible. Video editors will be able to run their choice of Adobe Premiere Pro, Avid Media Composer or Apple FCPX Non-Linear Editing software. All tapping into the incredible hardware, technology and performance designed into these new workstations and OSX Stallion.”
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I hope you noticed the date on that blog post…
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Ouch, read the date the European way : 04 January…
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Well spotted Andy ,
But I do like the idea of a new strand of names, Mounting Stallion, Pony, Shirehorse . . . . . .
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Personally I think Apple is aiming to increase sales of the new MacPro. It’s not that it’ll be a big seller compared to anything else they have but my hunch they’ll expect it to fill more high end user niches. Key will be case design and GPU flexibility. I also think they’ll be hoping the changing Thunderbolt spec will increase the frequency of new system upgrades over time.
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