Yeah, they're going to make it thinner by removing the CPU and GPU
and putting them in lightning fart enclosures. Courage.
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Could the nMP have been discontinued?
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Yeah, they're going to make it thinner by removing the CPU and GPU
and putting them in lightning fart enclosures. Courage.
A MacPro without an 1/8" headphone jack is not a real MacPro anyways, so...
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/the-time-has-come-apple-need-to-release-a-new-mac-pro.1973216/
What are you doing still here?
The new iMac can type what you think. No keyboard needed. 100% real. And its faster than workstations that need a real cooler to keep things roling, the new iMac uses special steal that cools down to -3 when its operational.
peeps, for real. Its just a tool... go for a monster PC and keep the Apple stuff for fun. ps, W10 is pretty nice.
Actually, how about i7-6800K or other HEDT Intel CPUs, iMac with integrated high-end desktop GPUs?
Best possible solution for cooling them is liquid cooling.
Dream on. iMacs are laptops on a stand and a bigger screen. My 6800k needs serious cooling. Bigger than a fist to keep it under 40c. Plus, only AMD, for sure! So all those Adobe users can do it again with no cuda support.
Apple has had workstation components in "Pro" Macs for a while so the first inclination is to think workstation. Obviously, Apple is rethinking that if the post here is correct that the iMac is going to replace the MacPro. Unless, of course, they decide to make an all-in-one like the HP Z1
Exactly.
I'm not sure why everyone thinks Apple or MR Forum members care that they are leaving. If you don't like Apple anymore, fine. Buy what makes you happy and visit their forums. Problem solved.
I like the Mac hardware and software too, and never really wanted to move to anything else. But with mounting frustration (and an 8+ year old Mac Pro), I felt something finally had to be done.
What's particularly fun about Linux is that it brings you back to the feeling that many of us had in the earlier days of the Mac: the sense that there's a big community of people who love the platform and develop for it out of sheer enthusiasm (vs. passive consumption, which is almost the hallmark of Apple today). Then there's the fact that the bulk of the most advanced OS, etc., work is being driven by Linux. With seemingly hundreds of distributions out there, you can be as bleeding-edge (or not) as you want. So, during the interminable and perhaps quixotic wait for the nnMP, my Linux box has more than quenched my frustration - it's fun!
(By the way, I'm not a video person, but Kdenlive seems like a nice, full-featured and very capable editor. Free and open source, of course, like most Linux software.)
True, but that means that Apple would have to make the iMac bigger to fit the cooling components and you know how they feel about that.
I can see it now: Tim calls Jony into his office and tells him that they want to make a pro iMac with internal cooling. Jony replies "You want to do WHAT with my beautifully designed and sculpted iMac? A vulgar cooling unit? OMG, you are going to destroy my precious. Have you no respect for my innovative genius designs?" Next sound comes from Tim "Hello, 911, my chief designer just passed out on the floor, is unresponsive and twitching terribly"
I honestly think they'll ditch the mac pro and reveal the amazing new iMac Pro
iMac with a pro graphics card - upgradeable
iMac with a pro graphics card - upgradeable
Well with the rumours of Microsoft making all in one Surface 'desktop PCs' now, then Apple has more competition then ever so they may as well just start to throw in the towel.
Define "business". I know plenty of people in the post-production world (my expertise) who work with iMacs or even MacMinis. The fact that it's not a "mac pro" doesn't mean "pro work" can't be done on it. if my next Mac is a next-gen "pro" iMac that allows me to work the same way as I do today on my Mac Pro, then it's business as usual.
So sorry, Apple, but I don't want a 400W hairdrier running full-blast sitting 18" from my face and ears.
I should have worded that differently. What I meant was for people who depend on regular updates which I think of as business users. Sorry for any confusion
One more time: Liquid cooling can remove a larger amount of heat from a small (chip-sized) area faster than air. That's it. All of that heat eventually has to be transferred to the air anyway (e.g. via fans), so it wouldn't improve the over-all power handling of an iMac.
What I would actually like (not as a "pro" solution, obviously) is a passively-cooled iMac for casual / office-type work.
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As long as the iMac is as thin as humanly possible and cannot, under any circumstances, be user serviceable/upgradeable then Apple will be happy. What spell professional capabilities more than a horribly outdated GPU upon launch, and being locked into it, throughout the lifetime of the Mac.
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I bought my wife a 5K iMac a few months ago and it struggles with basic tasks like working on a Word document...
