Mac Pro 7,1 announcement Sep. 7

[AidenShaw]

I wouldn't be surprised if Jony wasn't woking his magic voodoo with magnets to come up with a silent maglev fan, and demanding the hardware be only as powerful as something his new toy can cool.

It frightens me that you might actually be correct.

 

[Draeconis]

The current Mac Pro doesn't seems to be designed for a 12 core and a D700 and another D700 all to be "lit up" concurrently for extended periods of time.

Well, OS X doesn't seem to be written that way either. One GPU is used as a display, while the other sits and waits for OpenCL workloads. Even if you're running a game, because OS X doesn't support Crossfire, nothing.

Surely it's more than a bit embarrassing for Apple when the most efficient way of running your machine is to put Windows on it. And I don't say that lightly.

 

[Flint Ironstag]

*yawn* tomorrow's the 'big' day. Piano black / dark black / rose gold / space gray BS most likely.

 

[JimGoshorn]

If Apple is going to discuss BS, it will definitely come in rose gold

 

[lowendlinux]

It's going to be all i all the time

 

[grad]

Even if they did, what could they possibly release that would make this forum happy?

Face it, Ive's trash can design is, well, trash.

It can't support the thermal load of any modern day components without sounding like a jet engine, which means that if Apple did update it, they'd be forced to include underpowered components just to try and keep the thing quiet. At that point, everyone would be wondering the exact same thing they did at launch- "why is this machine lagging behind off the shelf hardware by a few years?".

They're not going to re-release a new tower system because that Apple is long dead. You're dealing with a company here who looks at technological advances as a way to make things smaller, thinner, and lighter, instead of something that means you can cram more resources in the same amount of space. If you need something more powerful then a cMP, it's time to look elsewhere, or build a hackintosh if you really must run OS X.

-SC

What are you talking about ? c(ylindrical)MacPro's design and acoustic/power efficiency performance leads the industry. Putting multiple HDDs in a single enclosure is as a bad idea as putting multiple GFX cards for GPU computation in one box or having a a rendering/processing workflow that relies on a single multi-CPU machine. The (not so) new cylidrical MP is what it is, a glorified and (relatively) silent workstation for the A/V designer, the HTML author, the programmer who hates laptop small screens or AIO solutions like iMac with a single sub-optimal screen standing in the way, the scientist who wants to design and try a big experiment before he deploys it at the cloud or his farm of computers, the researcher who would like something portable/luggable for taking it back home in "vacations". And regarding storage/GPU processing it can be expanded externally through Thunderbolt without sacrificing the acoustics. For ultra rendering/processing, nothing would beat the performance of an ultra noisy/hot multi-rack system in a separate room (or building), anyway; not the old Mac Pros, not the Hewlett Packards, not the Dells.

It's just that Apple overprice the product (hint: keep the design, move manufacturing/assembly to China so that we avoid paying the California/USA tax over and over, consider AMD for CPUs, offer more GPU choices, etc) and start marketing it correctly. Optimally, in order to keep the old customers/haters happy, just keep/rename the product (Mac Pro Mini ?) and sell it alongside an old/originalMacPro (double CPU, Thunderbolt 3, etc). We can't have too few choices. Enough with the iMacs and iWatches.

 

[SoyCapitanSoyCapitan]

At least Super Mario Go is announced

 

[grad]

At least Super Mario Go is announced

Yes, that's huge, now we don't have to rely just on Flappy Bird. Pokemon Go is in too.

 

[Flint Ironstag]

At least tell us Sierra is going live today with full eGPU support for all TB equipped Macs, + Nvidia Pascal drivers. A guy can dream...

 

[cube]

At least tell us Sierra is going live today with full eGPU support for all TB equipped Macs, + Nvidia Pascal drivers. A guy can dream...

+1. 'csrutil disable' is a problem for starters.

 

[handheldgames]

wait... october is around the corner.

 

[lowendlinux]

well some chic is singing so I'll assume it's over

 

[rawweb]

well some chic is singing so I'll assume it's over

"Apologies to Mac, we ran out of time".

 

[JimGoshorn]

September or October of what year??

 

[Bubba Satori]

September or October of what decade??

Fixed that for you.

"Don't you just love Donald Duck?"

 

[JimGoshorn]

Fixed that for you.

"Don't you just love Donald Duck?"

Sorry, I a momentary lapse in judgement. Thanks for reminding me how absurd Apple has gotten

 

[sevichenko]

i'm dissapointed too

 

[steveOooo]

What year?

I feel I might be priced out of mac pros and I just want TBs worth of storage inside vs noisy externals

 

[JMacHack]

I don't know about you guys, but I put my faith in Blast Hardcheese.

 

[aaronhead14]

I hope we get 7,1 at WWDC17.

 

[Flint Ironstag]

I don't know about you guys, but I put my faith in Blast Hardcheese.

Slab Bulkhead.

 

[kennyisalive]

I vote for Jony Ive and the rest of those ****ing ***** to go suck on a giant ball sack.

 

[mrwibble]

I'm not a student of thermal or power envelopes, but I think most folks would be satisfied if not happy with the following at the top end:

- 20 cores at decent GHz
- dual (under clocked) 1070s
- TB3
- and with Sierra, official support for eGPU

Am I crazy?

Any chance of TB4, DP1.4 or HDMI2.1?

 

[yfile]

 

[Synchro3]