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Apple Updates The Mac Pro

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Re: Apple Updates The Mac Pro

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Post by wtallis »

I'm glad to see someone finally making the obvious form factor changes we've been needing for a long time at the high end. An ATX style case just doesn't make sense anymore. ATX gives you lots of volume for cooling the CPU and lots of room to add PCB area in the form of expansion cards. But hardly anyone needs 7 expansion cards, and everyone needs more room for the GPU heatsink. Completely throwing out internal expandability may be a bit ahead of its time (like ditching the floppy drive with the iMac), but it does allow for a compact and efficient system layout. I do wonder about being stuck with your original GPU(s).

So what happens now for the Mac Mini Server?

Re: Apple Updates The Mac Pro

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Post by mikeash »

drzaiusapelord wrote: post #42
tsunamifury wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Innovation means to change and advance -- the word doesn't really set that high of a bar: - Its a different design - Its new hardware - It advances over the current generation

That's pretty much every computer out there. Is innovation such a low bar now that a new case and the newer Intel CPU is suddenly deserving of innovation praise because it has a fruit logo? Also am I the other one bothered by the case mentioning being built in the US but designed in California, like California is now its own nation?

Apple stuff has been saying "Designed in California, made in China" for years now.

Re: Apple Updates The Mac Pro

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Post by jfb »

wtallis wrote: post #51

I'm glad to see someone finally making the obvious form factor changes we've been needing for a long time at the high end. An ATX style case just doesn't make sense anymore. ATX gives you lots of volume for cooling the CPU and lots of room to add PCB area in the form of expansion cards. But hardly anyone needs 7 expansion cards, and everyone needs more room for the GPU heatsink. Completely throwing out internal expan…

I don't imagine much changes for the Mini server; nobody buys those things for compute workstations, so there's really no competition.

Re: Apple Updates The Mac Pro

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Post by foxhill »

wtallis wrote: post #51

I'm glad to see someone finally making the obvious form factor changes we've been needing for a long time at the high end. An ATX style case just doesn't make sense anymore. ATX gives you lots of volume for cooling the CPU and lots of room to add PCB area in the form of expansion cards. But hardly anyone needs 7 expansion cards, and everyone needs more room for the GPU heatsink. Completely throwing out internal expan…

as far as i know, mac pros have never been in ATX form factor.

intel tried to create a new case standard, BTX, years ago. but it seems no one likes change..

Re: Apple Updates The Mac Pro

#58

Post by bangkoknights »

drzaiusapelord wrote: post #42
tsunamifury wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Innovation means to change and advance -- the word doesn't really set that high of a bar: - Its a different design - Its new hardware - It advances over the current generation

That's pretty much every computer out there. Is innovation such a low bar now that a new case and the newer Intel CPU is suddenly deserving of innovation praise because it has a fruit logo? Also am I the other one bothered by the case mentioning being built in the US but designed in California, like California is now its own nation?

Assembled in California is definitely not the same as being Manufactured in USA.

Also, they could ship a unit 99% assembled in China and have somebody in the USA clip on the last piece to claim it was assembled in California.

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