APPLE Mac Pro Tear Down PING!
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Posted on 12/19/2019 1:37:59 PM PST by Swordmaker
Snazzy Labs
We have our hands on the newest $6,000 2019 Mac Pro for a compete teardown and parts analysis as compared to its PC brethren.
Tear Down and analysis of 2019 Mac Pro/
(Excerpt) Read more at youtube.com ...
IFIXIT (not these guys) rates this computer at a 9 out of 10 for repairability and expandability.
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I’d like one for the hell of it. What I could use is the new 16” laptop.
Then again, who couldn’t?
I was in the Apple store in downtown Spokane, Washington a couple days ago shopping for a new phone. I was struck by the fact that 50% of the showroom space was phones, maybe 30% iPads and only 20% Mac computers. Those computers weren’t getting much love, either.
I decided to hang onto my trusty and ancient 6 Plus with 128 GB.
It is a very tempting machine. This is the sort of thing that can lure me back to Apple.
In 1989 I purchased a Toshiba T3100-series portable computer, "loaded" with:
I'll bet the "base configuration" of the $6000 MacPro is at least 1000x higher performance.
My, how times and technology change.
Just bought my daughter a new 6 plus/128gb...still very viable for budget-minded folks and teens. I am not partial to Apple (or Google for that matter), but she wanted an iPhone since every other 12 year old girl at the ballet studio has one.
If computing power doubled every 10 months it is a huge number.
According to one chart is saw the 386 had about 500,000 transistors you can get a cpu with 1,000,000,000.
It is a lot of power.
Apple is now (sadly) a phone company that still makes computers.
Revenue from 1Q19 shows:
iPhone - 62%
Services - 13%
Mac - 9%
iPad - 8%
Other - 9%
I’ll getting one of these next Spring...not sure what config yet.
Thanks for all your Mac pings, Sword, I sure appreciate them!
Ed
I’ve got a 6s+ too, serves my needs. I’ll wait till next year for the 5G model.
Ed
phones are now computers and computers are now TVs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqjwSNRDrO8
In this unboxing, this girl practically .... herself just opening her new monitors and stands. It's not the technically taxing tear down that Snazzy Labs does but it is informative nonetheless.
Apple shut down all of their stores in the Eastern judicial district of Texas. I hear that the Western District may be getting a patent 'rocket docket'. Wonder if Apple is going to shut down the stores in Austin next.
What’s even more interesting is that I just ran that $8600 price you paid for that 386 through an inflation calculator and discovered that would would be $17,838.62 in 2019 dollars. Can you imagine how much Mac Pro you could buy with that much money? That’s 107% inflation since then.
The 1989 price of the 2019 base model Apple Mac Pro, to give you a better bench mark for comparison would be just $2,892.12, just slightly more than the price of a basic Macintosh with a extra Floppy Drive. Now that’s amazing.
Wow, that’s weird. What caused them to shut them down in East TX? Hadn’t heard that.
East Texas (to the Federal courts) includes some of the fastest growing suburbs north of Dallas(Drive south on the Tollway to get to the Northern District of Texas).
Apple wants to be able to argue that jurisdiction would not be proper in the Eastern district of Texas because the ‘minimum contacts’ rule can’t be satisfied. And the patent trolls loved the Eastern District because the judge wouldn’t let the big corporations drag out patent litigation for a decade or so. I think it was 2016 when over a third of the patent cases in the entire country were filed in the EDTx (one of (I think) 91 districts in the country). In comparison, the Northern District of California (Silicon Valley and San Francisco) had about 7% of the nationwide total. More patent cases in Tyler, Texas than in all of California.
The Eastern district arcs around from due north of Fort Worth to the Oklahoma border, to the Arkansas and Louisiana borders, and then to the Gulf coast east of Houston.
Interesting info. Thanks for posting that.
That would not do them any good as Austin is where this Mac Pro behemoth is manufactured.
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