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| tehlord |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ RANN
Er, these were not the droids we were looking for....
...but the specs, if true are ing 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! |
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| Storyteller |
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 ing icons, hooray. looks like Windows Phone and Android mashed up with a 3 year old kids crayon artwork.
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| DJ RANN |
| quote: | 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. |
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| Juan Paulino |
| , i should have waited. |
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| DJ RANN |
| quote: | Originally posted by Juan Paulino
, i should have waited. |
Don't want to say it but...I told you so :tongue3 |
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| Juan Paulino |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ RANN
Don't want to say it but...I told you so :tongue3 |
Its a badass looking machine! |
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| Terrence Parker |
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| Magnus |
| quote: | 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. |
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