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Re: Mac Pro

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Post by e1ven »

speedyrev wrote: post #13

The last upgradable mac is now dead. I thought the whole idea of the pro was the ability to put in graphic and other specialty cards as needed for "Pro" use. This looks like another cute consumer PC. Maybe they'll sell it along side the HP's at Sam's Club.

I would have designed it the same way - Thunderbolt is the future of expansions, not tiny little cards you need to slide inside of the HW. This machine recognizes that - They give you 6 (six!) to play with.

Thunderbolt IS PCIe, so it's just as fast.. Why should card makers be constrained in expanding the machine to make peripherals small enough to fit inside? If I want 1 solid foot of Disks for my workstation, then so be it. Wire it in over Thunderbolt, and I'm good to go.

Re: Mac Pro

#32

Post by [deleted] »

untog wrote: post #6

This page is a fantastic example of great development skills used in a way that is utterly infuriating to use. I don't want it to animate when I use my scroll wheel. I want the page to scroll. Off topic, but were this and the Air the only product announced? If so, I'm disappointed- I was hoping to pick up an updated Macbook Retina 13". Oh well.

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Re: Mac Pro

#33

Post by skizm »

untog wrote: post #6

This page is a fantastic example of great development skills used in a way that is utterly infuriating to use. I don't want it to animate when I use my scroll wheel. I want the page to scroll. Off topic, but were this and the Air the only product announced? If so, I'm disappointed- I was hoping to pick up an updated Macbook Retina 13". Oh well.

Just an FYI, you can use the arrow keys (L and R) to scroll. Much easier.

Re: Mac Pro

#34

Post by podperson »

speedyrev wrote: post #13

The last upgradable mac is now dead. I thought the whole idea of the pro was the ability to put in graphic and other specialty cards as needed for "Pro" use. This looks like another cute consumer PC. Maybe they'll sell it along side the HP's at Sam's Club.

Schiller explicitly said there would be external expansion options. I don't know if the GPUs can be swapped out though.

Re: Mac Pro

#36

Post by stormbrew »

jmduke wrote: post #19

Apple is doubling down on their segmentation here. They're clearly abandoning (I don't mean this in a pejorative sense) a mass appeal with this new iteration and targeting it specifically to 'actual' professionals: graphic designers, video editors, etc.

Are you suggesting the Mac Pro ever had mass appeal? This strikes me as the opposite, abandoning the 'actual' professionals in favour of a weird mass market design.

Re: Mac Pro

#38

Post by smackfu »

marknutter wrote: post #27
speedyrev wrote: post #13

The last upgradable mac is now dead. I thought the whole idea of the pro was the ability to put in graphic and other specialty cards as needed for "Pro" use. This looks like another cute consumer PC. Maybe they'll sell it along side the HP's at Sam's Club.

You can't upgrade it? What are those thunderbolt 2 ports for then?

The fastest PCI Express is faster than the fastest Thunderbolt 2.

Re: Mac Pro

#39

Post by carlob »

hkmurakami wrote: post #28

The design is reminiscent of the 20th anniversary Macintosh. https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=20th%20anniversary%...

More like the 20th anniversary Macintosh subwoofer. The cpu was behind and below the screen, just like an iMac.
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