Posted on 06/11/2019 11:46:04 PM PDT by Swordmaker
Apple's been teasing a redesigned Mac Pro for years now -- in fact, it's been well over a year since the company said it would be shipping the computer at some point during 2019 after originally promising it would arrive in 2018. Well, today, we're finally getting a look at the successor to that beautifully-designed trash can that Apple introduced in 2013 and then basically failed to upgrade for years. And guess what? It looks a lot like the old, cheese-grater style tower that Apple sold for years.
The Mac Pro has a stainless steel frame built around modularity and easy access to the components, something that should make it a lot easier to upgrade than the older model. The entire external case can be lifted right off after you unlock it.
There's a new Intel Xeon processor on board that has up to 28 cores, and the computer supports a positively insane 1.5 terabytes of RAM. And Apple is bringing PCI expansion back, finally -- there are four double-wide slots, three single-wide slots and one half-width slot that Apple populates with its I/O card. That card features two Thunderbolt 3 ports, two USB-A ports and a 3.5mm audio jack. There are also two ethernet ports, as well. As for graphics, Apple will support up to two Radeon Pro Vega II GPUs, though that's not the default configuration.
For video editors out there, Apple is including its own custom hardware called Afterburner. It'll make the Mac Pro capable of playing three simultaneous 8K RAW video streams, or 12 4K streams. The card is capable for processing 6 billion pixels per second. To keep things cool, the Mac Pro has three fans and a blower that Apple says shouldn't be any louder than the iMac Pro when it's under load. (We'll have to hear that to believe it.)
Oh yeah, the Mac Pro has wheels! And Apple is even making its own display to go along with it, a 32-inch LCD display that Apple is calling a 6K Retina display with HDR and 6,016 x 3,384 resolution.
The base Mac Pro will include an eight-core Xeon CPU, 32GB of memory, a 256GB SSD and the Radeon Pro 580X graphics card and will start at $5,999. It'll ship this fall... start saving your couch change.
Nope just Click Bait for the Resident Mac Haters.
And it still not a workstation grade computer. . . No matter how much you want to think it is. No i9 processor is a workstation grade processor. . . And your memory most like is not ECC memory.
And your wedded 4K 32” monitor would be laughed out of any video editing suite. This Apple 6K 32” monitor is a “reference grade” monitor that competes with the Sony 27” 5K CRT reference monitor that retails for $43,000, except the Apple has more features that are lacking in the Sony.
They have all the power they need at the workstation level already. I’m just not seeing a market for machines with 8 monitors for $64k + $35+k in processing at the workstation running MacOs level when you have racks of servers.
They’ll be eclipsed in a yeR or so.
It’s rediculous.
Dump Quickbooks and run Accountedge by Aclivity for Mac. It’s very much like Quickbooks in that it’s check oriented but has built in payroll. Runs natively in macOS. I’ve been using it for twenty years to run a multi-doctor medical facility and it works fine. You can import your Quickbooks data into it. Tax Tables and support subscriptions are less expensive than QB. . . And no fiddling around using VMWare or other Windows virtual machines with the potential for exposure to malware and those attendant costs.
For your purposes, I’d be looking at an iMac Pro with an external monitor as well. . . Although this new monitor with the ability to pivot 90º to portrait mode is very attractive.
The Apple workstation suite price of $99,000 you figured beats the pants off of a workstation suite of 8 Sony 5k monitors at $344,000 plus a $50,000 per workstation computer, totaling $394,000. The racks of servers are used for rendering final products.
Point me to this system that already exists of which you speak.
Apples and oranges?
This is for enterprises, not the home market.
Unfortunately QuickBooks Manufacturing Premier Edition works great for our industry. We have thousands of inventory items and our work flow goes from Estimates to Sales Orders to Invoicing and the reporting built in works really well. If Quickbooks could make their online version a bit more robust, with inventory items and sales orders, I'd be on it like white on rice.
Any market is fine.
I must see a $43k monitor.
I also have xenon processor computers, however ECC memory has extremely little effect on outcome for workstations. It’s immaterial to workstations. Servers need ECC memory, not workstations. The bit error rate of modern memory systems is so ridiculously low as to be insignificant.
ECC memory and Xenon processors aren’t justified against the high price. Xenons are only useful for multiprocessor applications.
I saw the expensive Sony Pro Monitors. Are you saying the Apple Monitor is up to that standard? Not even close if you look at what’s inside of these Sony Monitors.
More like Dell’s but Dell’s is cheaper and not as good.
No human eyeball can make use of the perfect color of those monitors. I have several expensive color corrected monitors and there has never been a justified need. The company buys them but outside of printed materials processing like movie productions and print materials, they have little use.
Oh, right. Sure. That’s why movie production and printers use them and pay the money for them. Just because YOU see no purpose behind them, they have little to no purpose in the real world. Right, sure. People in professional use just waste $40k every time they purchase reference grade monitors and will not be ecstatic when they can buy a far more capable reference grade monitor for only $5k. Again, Right, sure. You are the expert because you know everything there is to know about professional use of monitors because you do exactly what “justified need” with your computers?
This one is pretty close:
I have a mac that is 10 years old runs like a charm. I upgraded the OS one time and added memory. That’s it. It will probably last 10 more years. The quality is UFB.
I have a 2010 MacBook Pro, just added memory and a SSD drive, and it runs like a charm.
Although I’ve reached the point where I won’t be able to upgrade the OS anymore, but that’s really not a big deal.
The quality is off the charts with a mac.
Wow...seriously wrong.
These are creating video that will be shown on enormous screens. When you see "bad CGI" it is usually because it was done on sub-par equipment. I had a customer make some in house videos for their company that they were really proud of. They had done it on a fairly powerful PC with Adobe Premier Pro. There was some green screen work that looked great on their monitors and when streaming on the web. They bought commercials at the local cinema and thought that because they had made the videos in 4K, they would be fine.
They looked bad...really bad...like a teenager made them in his basement bad.
The ones built back in 2010 IMHO had a higher-level of quality than the more recent models. I could just tell when I opened it up to install the new memory/drive.
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