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Re: Mac Pro

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Post by smackfu »

ansimionescu wrote: post #71

I love watching people moan about this yet unreleased product. I think the new Mac Pro episode will resemble the iPad one - lots of "ohemgee it's like just a bigger ipod, lol, how stupid do they think we are, kthx?" reactions, when in fact this product will probably push a new paradigm shift in the way workstations are built i.e. moving away from the plastic pieces of shit ubiquitously sold now. Seriously, I dare you…

This is going to be a $3000 workstation. Its processor will cost more than that "workstation" you linked to. They aren't even competing in the same space.

The new "paradigm" this is pushing is that you don't need PCIe cards or internal storage. We'll see about that.

Re: Mac Pro

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ansimionescu wrote: post #71

I love watching people moan about this yet unreleased product. I think the new Mac Pro episode will resemble the iPad one - lots of "ohemgee it's like just a bigger ipod, lol, how stupid do they think we are, kthx?" reactions, when in fact this product will probably push a new paradigm shift in the way workstations are built i.e. moving away from the plastic pieces of shit ubiquitously sold now. Seriously, I dare you…

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Re: Mac Pro

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Post by randyrand »

marknutter wrote: post #59
nvmc wrote: post #55

Another astronomically expensive Mac Pro. This time hermetically sealed and unupgradable. Lovely.

What's the price?

It hasn't been announced, but xenon processors and PCI-E flash storage is typically much more expensive than the Core Processor line or SSD storage since they are almost exclusively marketed towards servers.

That said, disregarding the Apple tax I'm sure Apple gets pretty good deals on their hardware so it is possible that it will be at similar price point as the current line (which was typically regarded as over priced and outdated anyways)

Re: Mac Pro

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Post by ChuckMcM »

As a design asthetic I find it fairly interesting. By working toward a design managing the thermals in a way that allow for more heat removal while allowing it to not sound like a 747 on takeoff is good. I suspect your typical desktop machine will benefit from that kind of thinking.

Also for a long time Intel was trying to push all of the expansion boards outside the case with USB, and Apple seems close to achieving this with thunderbolt. Leaving the primary chassis as the system/holder for CPU+Memory+GPU with perhaps some boot media, and putting anything else outside.

I can't wait to see on in action to see how well this strategy works in practice vs in slideware.

Re: Mac Pro

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Post by Aardwolf »

All I see is a cylinder?

I've seen a lot of Star Trek lately. It would fit in right next to other alien spacecraft against the special effect space backdrop of The Original Series.

Re: Mac Pro

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Post by rdl »

I'm a big fan of everything except less RAM capacity. Getting the disks out of the case makes a lot of sense -- 4 drives was never enough to be meaningful. A boot SSD and a big 8+ drive external RAID on TB2 seems a lot better (ideally with an SSD or more RAM to cache), and/or NAS/SAN.

Curious where it will be priced; if it's $1999 or less for a usable base config, it could be a default. Mini never really made a lot of sense as a desktop. It's depressing leaving an rMBP docked all the time.

Re: Mac Pro

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Post by snorkel »

Whoever buys one of these promise us you will pose an Obi Wan doll behind it flipping off the tractor beam switch.

Re: Mac Pro

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Post by katbyte »

e1ven wrote: post #31
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 s…

If your not concerned with performance,

20 Gbit/s thunderbolt != 8 drives @ 6 Gbit/s (42GBit /s)

i think a modern raid card can deliver 8gbit/s over 8 PCIe 3 lanes

However i guess you could trunk a few together?

Re: Mac Pro

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Post by mason55 »

skizm wrote: post #33
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.

Space bar as well
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