Posted on 06/10/2013 12:52:41 PM PDT by Yossarian
It certainly is a funky little cylindrical thing... It's like Darth Vader's coffee can. In addition to the small size is an innovative 3-way heat sink, and single fan to keep noise levels low.
Learn more at this Apple page describing the new design.
- The microprocessor is an Intel Xeon, meaning it will be made in Oregon;
- The dual GPU is AMD, so it will probably be made in Taiwan by TSMC, but at least they have rights there, even if Taiwan is far friendlier with China than in the past;
- I don't know where the circuit boards will be made...
So here's a little bit of good news to take in with all the revolting scandals going around! Go USA!
Tech Ping!
If I got the gist correctly, no internal expansion possible or required — all expansions are intended to be done via high-speed Thunderbolt. That keeps the core design simpler and easier to ensure it all works in OS X while allowing the power users the flexibility to add components that they need.
Pretty smart.
Of course, this is a specialty machine, really designed for high-end photo and video processing. Most users have no need for a Mac Pro.
However, that's also a negative - all expansion is external. It has 6 Thunderbolt 2 ports, each offering 20 Gb/s bandwidth, so it's essentially an externalized PCI-E bus. But for some things, like 1 to 2.5 terabyte spinning drives, blu-ray burners, or HDMI capture, it's going to be physically unwieldy....
Mac Ping! (If that’s allowed these days....)
I’ve had a Mac Pro for the last 5 years and have loved it. What I have liked is the ability to upgrade myself. Not sure which direction I will head with my next machine given the ability to have massive NAS’s for pretty cheap. Storage has always been my issue.
Yes, compact, but without internal or a good way to stack components, (or rack mount) things could get unwieldy.....
yeah, you get a spider. of course maybe someone else will provide a box in which all this thunderbolted stuff can fit. the next step would be to implement thunderbolt like capability via wifi or better. now you can put your peripherals pretty much anywhere you like.
(That's about the only thing my G5 is doing these days....)
Sweet... I mean cool!
Not to mention it needs a brushed aluminum finish to be recognizable.
I’ve been rocking my dual core X2 2.66 GHz since 2007. LOVE IT.
Can’t afford to upgrade to this new one. I’ll keep this one until it dies.
BTW, I got dibs on the lampshade patent!
Prediction - it will be called the “stovepipe” or the “silo” by detractors, terms in the industry that have somewhat of a negative connotation implying proprietary, closed and/or difficult to expand architectures. Now it looks the part as well.
“The Mac Pro, which caters to video editors and folks that need more horse power, was outlined in a sneak peak from Schiller. The desktop is a black cylinder looking thing. “Can’t innovate anymore my ass,” said Schiller.”
Sell it under 1000.00 and then maybe you can stop talking out of your ass?
Until then it’s an expensive fancy trashcan.
Do you know how much the Intel Xeons go for, alone? Not to mention the AMD FirePower GPUs? Or PCI-E SSDs?
Add up raw costs alone and it goes well above $1K. Apple makes a < $1K Mac, this isn't it.
They seem to be really integrating things across all of their stuff.
Correction, that’s dual “FirePro” GPUs, not “FirePower”.
Might be the most ill informed post in history...
Made in the USA ping!
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