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Any new news on the 2013 Mac Pros?
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| tehlord |
There seems to be very little information leakage about what might be.
Obviously we'll be seeing Thunderbolt and USB3.
I'm wondering what the CPU options will be as the current Xeon's really are getting long in the tooth.
I've pretty much resigned myself to the fact that the Mac Pro is the only one I'll invest money in but certainly not new right now.
I'm hoping that next years new models will have a base CPU starting with at least a current powerful i7 or equivalent. I'd happily spend money on that.
I did hear talk of them being rack mountable as well? |
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| clay |
| apple goes mainstream. small ipads, big ipods, small useless ipods (no app-support), thinner imac (for what reason?), and 13" macbook pro with smaller text (wtf?). NO real development imo just sales arguments. Apple died with Jobs. Theyre too big now, rather stick with something else. Hopefully the mac pros will continue focus on power and connectivity, together with stability and integrity. 4 values that has been lost in apple the last year. |
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| itsamemario |
| The mac pros are gonna go 100% wireless, even inside the machine. RAM and CPU communicating over 802.11g. It's the future, and you're gonna want it. |
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| tehlord |
One interesting rumour I've heard (although it's probably just made up) is that it might be a modular system based around Thunerbolt, which seems legit to me.
You'd buy the CPU section, the storage section, the PCIe expansion section etc etc all separately. |
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| simonbostock |
Modular has its good points but most thunderbolt devices are so ing expensive and Intel are not exactly encouraging the Taiwan manufacturers to embrace the technology on the pc side. I've only seen a couple of motherboards with thunderbolt ports.
The new Mac mini i7's look quite beefy for the size and cost though. |
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| tehlord |
| quote: | Originally posted by simonbostock
Modular has its good points but most thunderbolt devices are so ing expensive and Intel are not exactly encouraging the Taiwan manufacturers to embrace the technology on the pc side. I've only seen a couple of motherboards with thunderbolt ports.
The new Mac mini i7's look quite beefy for the size and cost though. |
Well the thing is I suspect the Thunderbolt/modular route might suit Apple as they seem set on determining exactly how you upgrade your machines now.
I actually think the sweetspot for buying in now is a 2010 8/12 core Mac Pro for about £1000-1500 and make it last you 3-4 years. I can't quite justify over £1k on a fully tricked out Mini, but I might take the plunge. |
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| jayxthekoolest |
| pretty sure apple stopped caring about the professional market a lonnnngggg time ago |
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| Juan Paulino |
| news is that apple is trying to stem away from intel processors. |
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| fluxburn |
| quote: | Originally posted by Juan Paulino
news is that apple is trying to stem away from intel processors. |
I follow tech and haven't seen that anywhere. From what I read and researched about processors, Apple left IBM due to cost. Apple uses Intel as it costs less and for boot camp; you can run windows i.e. x86 processor code on a Mac at 100% speed. Older mac's used to be able to run Windows at what, 80% the speed, which is ironic, as today it wouldn't have mattered much, since processors are so fast.
The older processors had a smaller instruction set vs X86, so it can go faster and more efficiently. Sun Microsystems uses those old style processors, which are actually newer technology then the x86 on new servers that whoop behind. |
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| jayxthekoolest |
| quote: | Originally posted by Juan Paulino
news is that apple is trying to stem away from intel processors. |
lol |
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