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The Mac Pro Lives

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Re: The Mac Pro Lives

#12

Post by jaimebuelta »

This is an incredibly weird thing... Inviting a bunch of bloggers into a room and saying that they're sorry, but they have great stuff down the line?

It feels incredibly un-Apple.

Re: The Mac Pro Lives

#13

Post by buserror »

Gave up on the mac pro years ago. I replaced my unkillable 2008 Mac pro with a lovely Fractal Design R5 case, a stonking 5930k overclocked at 4.5Gz on a 'posh' ASUS Mobo with 64GB of DDR.

It's a 'hackintosh', sure enough, but it's fantastic. First time in 30 years I don't own a mac, that's telling. Their fault, too.

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#14

Post by milhous »

What are the chances the new Mac Pro will simply be a smaller, higher-density form factor of the cheese grater Mac Pro?

Also glad to hear the Mac Mini's not being killed off.

Re: The Mac Pro Lives

#15

Post by yankcrime »

ComputerGuru wrote: post #11
alexkadis wrote: post #4

And Siracusa with the win. "That Mac is our last hope… No. There is another." https://twitter.com/siracusa/status/849229927358636033 https://twitter.com/siracusa/status/849230093088165888

I don't get it?

It’s basically a quote from ‘The Empire Strikes Back’.

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#16

Post by alexkadis »

ComputerGuru wrote: post #11
alexkadis wrote: post #4

And Siracusa with the win. "That Mac is our last hope… No. There is another." https://twitter.com/siracusa/status/849229927358636033 https://twitter.com/siracusa/status/849230093088165888

I don't get it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oasqjPHpxyI

Obi-Wan: "That boy is our last hope."

Yoda: "No...there is another..."

Re: The Mac Pro Lives

#17

Post by strombourg »

buserror wrote: post #13

Gave up on the mac pro years ago. I replaced my unkillable 2008 Mac pro with a lovely Fractal Design R5 case, a stonking 5930k overclocked at 4.5Gz on a 'posh' ASUS Mobo with 64GB of DDR. It's a 'hackintosh', sure enough, but it's fantastic. First time in 30 years I don't own a mac, that's telling. Their fault, too.

Had you built a hackintosh before? Any major negative experiences with compatibility / updates?

Re: The Mac Pro Lives

#18

Post by noir_lord »

milhous wrote: post #14

What are the chances the new Mac Pro will simply be a smaller, higher-density form factor of the cheese grater Mac Pro? Also glad to hear the Mac Mini's not being killed off.

Not sure why it would need to be smaller, the Cheesegrater was exactly what I'd expect a Pro level machine to look like and I've never been an apple user, I just love that case.

It's a pro level desktop, size (within reason) constraints aren't really an issue.

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#19

Post by strombourg »

jaimebuelta wrote: post #12

This is an incredibly weird thing... Inviting a bunch of bloggers into a room and saying that they're sorry, but they have great stuff down the line? It feels incredibly un-Apple.

Very. I think it speaks to the fear they have over losing this market and the incredibly bad reaction they'd have if they'd simply released the weakly updated Pro without further explanation.

Re: The Mac Pro Lives

#20

Post by jvzr »

classybull wrote: post #9

The world would be better served by Apple getting out of the hardware business and just selling OSX, allowing it to run on any x86 architecture without all of the Hackintosh bull. I don't understand who these people are that are spending a 50% premium on components that are two to three years old. I use a MBP regularly, but only because my work buys them.

macOS would suck if it ran on every kind of hardware. It's because it's all so tightly controlled that it works so great.

Windows is not inherently bad. But the premise of it working everywhere means some trade-offs are made. Same for Android.

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