Continue Mac Pro Classic alongside the new Mac Pro

[snarfquest]

Zero chance because they do not want any potential product stealing sales away from their new Mac Pro. It makes zero sense for apple to promote a Mac Pro with no internal expansion, stating the TB is the wave of the future and you don't need internal expansion, then to offer a classic MP with internal expansion.

I've always hated that logic.

Can't steal away sales from something I would never buy!

Over the last year I've become very happy with having NOTHING except a keyboard and mouse on my desk. Even my 30inch monitor is on a wall mount. It is really nice being able to reclaim my desk as a desk! I don't want to go back to having a PC wasting space on my desk just sitting there. This new MP seems way to small and fragile to place on the floor and suck up carpet lint. The current MP is perfect tucked away under the desk and out of the way with everything I need inside the computer. Last thing I want is to recreate the monster rats nest of cables again all over my desk with expansion crap just to hold what is currently INSIDE my computer. For me, Apple has really missed the boat on the trashcan.

 

[subsonix]

Over the last year I've become very happy with having NOTHING except a keyboard and mouse on my desk. Even my 30inch monitor is on a wall mount. It is really nice being able to reclaim my desk as a desk! I don't want to go back to having a PC wasting space on my desk just sitting there. This new MP seems way to small and fragile to place on the floor and suck up carpet lint.

So put it on a small, cabinet/sideboard/shelf and problem solved.

 

[JavaTheHut]

Size

This new Tube Mac will be so small you can hide it behind your monitor.

 

[slughead]

Apparently ASUS is/was working on http://www.tomshardware.com/news/asus-thunderbolt-Z77-H77-pcie,15925.html, so Thunderbolt may be possible even with a Classic Mac Pro... not that Apple would have you hear this of course.

That card would not work in a Mac Pro. Thunderbolt needs to be natively integrated into the chipset, so upgrading the current MP is not possible. That ASUS card requires Z77 H77 chipset motherboards (ivy bridge), so older chipsets don't work, sadly.

That card in particular would not work, however Intel is making a PCIe drop-in.. However it is currently vaporware and would require features on the motherboard that the Current Mac Pro does not have (such as pcie hot-swap and internal display port).

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This new Tube Mac will be so small you can hide it behind your monitor.

... And so useless you'll want to use the extra desk space to accomodate a real machine

(or a half-dozen "thunderbolt droppings" like storage and media devices which would've fit inside the case of the previous MP)

 

[TableSyrup]

Yeah, I am one of those super disappointed individuals.

I would not have minded a slightly smaller case, same form factor, rack mountable, rail-able, easy drive swaps of SSD's, GPU upgradability/expansion, and PCIe

What do some of us users with thousands of dollars of PCIe cards do now???

Buy thousands of dollars of TB to PCIe rigs??? That sucks.

Add to that, the limited bandwidth. What am I supposed to do with a 16x card? Stick in in an adapter for a 4x TB connection? Am I missing something???

so sad. Glad I have a brand new current Mac Pro - it will be serving me just fine for a long time.

 

[Tesselator]

This is as close as a "Classic" there will be!

Wouldn't it be neat is the nMP came in legacy replica encasing like that? Replace the CRT with an LCD that can either display system status and sensor data or act as a tiny monitor. Use the floppy slot for a removable SSD in SATA 3.2. Sounds so cool!

I guess now that the nMP is so small we'll probably be seeing a lot of creative case-mods.

 

[seveej]

Better stockpile on Pros while we still can

Which you can't over here in the EU
Never mind, don't have the currency anyhow ...

RGDS,