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Re: Mac Pro

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Post by muyuu »

wisty wrote: post #494
digitalengineer wrote: post #435

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How about the entire graphic design industry? Finally a 'headless iMac' with balls. The MacPro allows me to attach my EIZO monitors. The iMac screens are consumer-quality, really. If you're looking for high quality screens (and OSX), the MacPro is the best. I am curious about the price-range.

I'm guessing it will start somewhere between $2,500 to $3,500. It will be probably more than the top-end iMac. I can't see it being a lot more expensive than the current low-end Mac Pro. It would be nice if they had a less expensive version, but this is Apple we're talking about.

At that price I'd jump in just to use it for web development and some video processing and OpenCL development.

But I suspect it will be a lot more expensive than that, especially here in the UK. I say it will probably start at $3,500 at the very minimum in the US and then with extra RAM and other upgrades it can go up to $6000 if not more.

This machine will typically come coupled to very beefy displays and external thunderbolt RAID drives and the whole set-up will average more than $10,000.

Re: Mac Pro

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Post by btown »

fourstar wrote: post #397
btown wrote: post #231

Copywriting and product-debate aside, that's some pretty impressive frontend presentation. From what I can tell from the minified JS, they're using Require.JS for code organization, their own jQuery-like utility toolkit they call Apple Core, fully pre-rendered text everywhere, and javascript that plays and pauses two copies of the HTML5 video, one backwards and one forwards, shuffling their opacities for seamless tra…

Posting minified JS is pretty useless. Open up Chrome inspector tools and use pretty print to actually read it: http://i.imgur.com/PHUaDSU.png

Wow, I've done entire reverse-engineering projects (namely re-skinning Angry Birds Chrome, for one) squinting at minified JS and never knew that that was what that { } button did! Thanks!

Re: Mac Pro

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Post by a1a »

I really don't care about the product itself, but I am always glad when Apple releases something new. It's really interesting to study the release process.

It's truly impressive being able to create such hype around a release. Funny enough, many Apple fan-boys are basically fanatics. The rational thing to do is of course to work against the corporations, in order to force them into improving and lowering the prices. But somehow Apple has managed to create a "personal army" of fan-boys, blindly defending their every move.

On a related note: I am really surprised they are going desktop, has not the last five years been about replacing it?

Re: Mac Pro

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Post by hmng »

geon wrote: post #496
koralatov wrote: post #483

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In the ways the heat management is designed, it reminds me of the oft-maligned G4 Cube, which used the same components around the edges, airflow through the centre idea to cool the machine. The small size of the unit also reinforces the similarity for me.

Didn't the Cube have overheating issues?

No.

Re: Mac Pro

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Post by mmariani »

spydum wrote: post #276
btown wrote: post #231

Copywriting and product-debate aside, that's some pretty impressive frontend presentation. From what I can tell from the minified JS, they're using Require.JS for code organization, their own jQuery-like utility toolkit they call Apple Core, fully pre-rendered text everywhere, and javascript that plays and pauses two copies of the HTML5 video, one backwards and one forwards, shuffling their opacities for seamless tra…

I was surprised how bad it works in landscape orientation on their own ipad devices.. Alignment is wrong, scrolling is not smooth.. Overall, just bad. I could understand if I was browsing from an android platform..

I'm on ios 6.1.2 and everything works as smoothly as anyone would expect.

What version are you running?

Re: Mac Pro

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Post by tta »

glenra wrote: post #70

"Okay, we COULD just label the ports with regular high color contrast paint. Say, white paint on a black background or black paint on a white background. But that would be TOO EASY and the panel would then really 'pop' against our otherwise monolithic clean design. Which would be distracting." "But during actual use the ports are going to be on the BACK of the device (so you won't see it) and will have random stuff p…

Relevant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7L2fsubA2-c

Re: Mac Pro

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Post by mcormier »

geon wrote: post #496
koralatov wrote: post #483

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In the ways the heat management is designed, it reminds me of the oft-maligned G4 Cube, which used the same components around the edges, airflow through the centre idea to cool the machine. The small size of the unit also reinforces the similarity for me.

Didn't the Cube have overheating issues?

It had overheating issues if your cat sat on top of it, with the side effect of cat fur being sucked into it.

Reference: http://akibjorklund.com/2008/the-cubes-fatal-flaw-cats

Re: Mac Pro

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Post by Dirlewanger »

matthew-wegner wrote: post #365
rsync wrote: post #256

I love this new device. I suspect I will buy one. But it doesn't solve my "need a new mac pro" problem. Right now my 2009 octo mac pro, with six displays attached, plays three roles: - it is my high end desktop workstation, with three primary high resolution (2560x1600) displays. - it is my HTPC, with one of the six monitors strung into another room entirely. - it is my office NAS, with four internal 3TB disks So, th…

Maybe build a Hackintosh? I've been running one for 18 months (coming off a Mac Pro when it became clear upgrades would be a long time coming). It's pretty great. If you're careful with hardware selection you can apply Apple's own software updates with zero issues. See: http://www.tonymacx86.com/351-building-customac-buyer-s-guid...

Awesome. Thanks for the link. Would you be able to say with any reasonable certainty that it is primarily the motherboard that is key for building a Hackintosh? I want to build a Haswell Win7/OS X machine, and judging from this link and the other brief research that I've done, that if one sticks with Gigabyte for the motherboard you're more or less all set.

Re: Mac Pro

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Post by free652 »

Dirlewanger wrote: post #508
matthew-wegner wrote: post #365

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Maybe build a Hackintosh? I've been running one for 18 months (coming off a Mac Pro when it became clear upgrades would be a long time coming). It's pretty great. If you're careful with hardware selection you can apply Apple's own software updates with zero issues. See: http://www.tonymacx86.com/351-building-customac-buyer-s-guid...

Awesome. Thanks for the link. Would you be able to say with any reasonable certainty that it is primarily the motherboard that is key for building a Hackintosh? I want to build a Haswell Win7/OS X machine, and judging from this link and the other brief research that I've done, that if one sticks with Gigabyte for the motherboard you're more or less all set.

Correct. The motherboard is the key, followed by the WIFI adapter.

Re: Mac Pro

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Post by panacea »

dasmoth wrote: post #450
seanp2k2 wrote: post #434

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Dual FirePro cards, mini PCI-E SSD, and up to a 12-core [single] CPU? I feel like this will start north of $3500, but they might have a cheaper base config. Maxed, it'll probably top $5k.

Sounds about right. It's nice to imagine them doing a version with a single socket and a nice-but-consumer-level GPU -- that would finally be a worthy embodiment of the mythical "xMac" -- but they've been actively disinterested in releasing a headless mid-range machine for years, and I can't see that changing now.

"a worthy embodiment of the mythical "xMac""

It would certainly look great next to whatever black non-apple monitor(s) or TV(s) you wanted to plug into it.

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