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The Mac Pro Lives

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Re: The Mac Pro Lives

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Post by andy_ppp »

I always assumed that upgrading the Mac Pro was going to by daisy chaining them with Thunderbolt connections. Guess I was wrong, but I'd love 24 cores and 6 graphics cards on my desk even if the price was crazy.

Re: The Mac Pro Lives

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Post by jlgaddis »

For me -- and, I suspect, many others -- this is too little too late.

Just a few months ago, I spent somewhere around $4500 (all-in) putting together a new workstation. It runs Linux instead of OS X and this has led to me using my (4-year-old) ThinkPad more than my (18-month-old) MacBook Pro (when I'm "on the go"). I actually plan on selling the MBP; I just haven't gotten around to it yet.

I'm sure this is great news -- and long-awaited -- to many people... but some of us got tired of waiting.

Re: The Mac Pro Lives

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Post by jstapels »

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

And I bet they thought they weren't going to have to talk about the Mac Pro (again!) during the next ATP :).

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Post by roadfun »

If Apple makes upgrading components easier for themselves that will likely mean users and resellers can mod them more easily as well. I wonder how the 'next year' comment fits into the CPU and GPU roadmaps.

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Post by classybull »

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.

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