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New Mac Pro is here.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/10/li...c-2013-keynote/

Well I suspected the new Mac Pro would be modular and it pretty much is.

'External expansion only'

And what's this I hear about PCI-E storage? Does that mean all your internal hard drivery will be Apple products only?



Unhooray.

It's good to see American computer and electronics companies starting to keep jobs here at home.

i must admit it looks cool

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Originally posted by cryophonik It's good to see American computer and electronics companies starting to keep jobs here at home.

Assembled in the USA is not necessarily the same as made in the USA though

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Originally posted by clay i must admit it looks cool

Yup, looks like a fancy space heater.

I wonder how quiet it will be.

I'm an avid Apple hater but the looks of this thing are awesome.

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Originally posted by tehlord Assembled in the USA is not necessarily the same as made in the USA though

Oh trust me, Americans are well aware of that difference. We manufacture hardly anything here these days, but we can handle the assembly of just about anything (unless it's from Ikea).

it makes no sense to produce the parts in USA while assembly would probably mean higher quality as the machine/human-rate is much lower in the west than the east. in korea machines are more worth than humans.

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Originally posted by Storyteller I'm an avid Apple hater but the looks of this thing are awesome.

+1

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Originally posted by clay it makes no sense to produce the parts in USA while assembly would probably mean higher quality as the machine/human-rate is much lower in the west than the east. in korea machines are more worth than humans.

The only difference would be standards and work volume. Americans are really not great art any sort of human assembly unless it is very custom and expensive products. The Mac Pro is and has always been a show piece. They sell so few that they can do this and any overhead is nothing compared to Mac being able to claim they care about Americans and have taken steps to bing jobs,all 50 of them back hoe.

Er, these were not the droids we were looking for....

...but the specs, if true are fucking hardcore. External expansion makes sense though; externals are now as fast as internal drives and now you don't have to overpay for apple SSD's.

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Originally posted by DJ RANN Er, these were not the droids we were looking for.... ...but the specs, if true are fucking hardcore. External expansion makes sense though; externals are now as fast as internal drives and now you don't have to overpay for apple SSD's.

Yeah but what about that main PCIe hard drive. Gawd only knows what you'll be charged for that as it looks completely proprietary. $500/TB at least I'd imagine.

After an initial wtf, I do see the point though. It's a genuine step forward in thinking and design and until you read the measurements you don't realise just how small these things are, like the size of your iPad!

Well I'm glad they came up with this. The Mac Pro is rather awesome on quite a lot of aspects. They were taking the piss yesterday on pretty much all other aspects if you ask me. Those new fucking icons, hooray. Shit looks like Windows Phone and Android mashed up with a 3 year old kids crayon artwork.

sea lion lol.

http://imgur.com/dEkzo9S

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Originally posted by Storyteller http://imgur.com/dEkzo9S

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Originally posted by tehlord Yeah but what about that main PCIe hard drive. Gawd only knows what you'll be charged for that as it looks completely proprietary. $500/TB at least I'd imagine. After an initial wtf, I do see the point though. It's a genuine step forward in thinking and design and until you read the measurements you don't realise just how small these things are, like the size of your iPad!

I don't think the PCIe hard drive is proprietary though; a few manufacturers (OCZ, Intel etc) already make PCIe SSD's and they are in the same price bracket as the normal 2.5" Sata drives.

I actually think the design is one of the things people will look back on and go, of course, it was the next logical step.

As for it being assembled in the USA that also makes sense - the majority of the parts may well be made in the far east, but with the more expensive macs, they have to offer a different level of support. The pro community won't deal with it, and by my experience, when you had a problem with the previous mac pros, support was good up to a point - when it was something really random and bizarre in nature, they just couldn't help and would have to swap out whole major components (motherboards etc), and we would later find it was a niche hardware conflict.

I have a feeling it being made here will actually cost less for apple in the long run, and probably instill confidence in to the pro market.

Shit, i should have waited.

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Originally posted by Juan Paulino Shit, i should have waited.

Don't want to say it but...I told you so

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Originally posted by DJ RANN Don't want to say it but...I told you so

Its a badass looking machine!

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Originally posted by cryophonik Oh trust me, Americans are well aware of that difference. We manufacture hardly anything here these days, but we can handle the assembly of just about anything (unless it's from Ikea).

+1 on the Ikea statement. Drives me so insane.

My goodness, this thing is a MONSTER!! Not too happy with the looks and the fact that I'll now have an octopus on my desk but I'll be getting this bad boy asap!

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