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Mac Pro 7,1 announcement Sep. 7
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and in the past apple wanted to get more games on the mac! At least they kind of open to letting ati / nivdia do there own drivers and sell better cards while the mac pro was stuck on lower end video cards.
Even before. I still have a Powermac Quicksilver G4 with the best Nvidia card at that time (2001), the GeForce4 Ti.
GeForce 3 was available first on the Mac:
But that was another Apple company...
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Like Steve, one that's no longer with us.
Well, Mac Pro 2013 is the worst Apple desktop ever because of its design. Yeah because of its design, it has a huge problem with cooling. Mac Pro is a workstation computer. Why do we care about the small size for? We need superior performance not the size. Lack of dual CPU, less RAM slots, terrible cooling system, not upgradable(Mostly), meaningless size and design, not expandable, too expansive compare to its performance and spec, and more.
It's Intel's fault.
AMD has some great stuff at the end of the year.
Why do you need a powerful, expandable computer?
Apple is making lots of money, so what if their computers suck.
Planet of the Apps and Carfool Karaoke are more important.
Jony Ive can't figure out how to put emojis on the Trash Can 2.0.
The Timinator is working on the second edition of his roadmap.
At an animated sticker event Phil Shill responds to audience boos
by screaming "I told you idiots ten years. Can't you count?
Apple introduces a $20K 2013 animated sticker trash can.
Walt Mossberg has a heart attack yelling WOOOOOOOO!
hi there!
meh... any « pro » machine should be « rackable...
cooling flow in data center rack has a « standard » and that standard is front to back.
No mater how bad you «want to inovate » designing a « pro » machine with cooling going from bottom to top and therefore cant cool properly should get you fired. period.
the problem is people do belive that hardware specs is what make a computer « pro » and therefore they agreed in thinking that the nMP was a server grade pro machine because it ad a xeon.
meh... any « pro » machine should be « rackable...
cooling flow in data center rack has a « standard » and that standard is front to back.
No mater how bad you «want to inovate » designing a « pro » machine with cooling going from bottom to top and therefore cant cool properly should get you fired. period.
the problem is people do belive that hardware specs is what make a computer « pro » and therefore they agreed in thinking that the nMP was a server grade pro machine because it ad a xeon.
We'll be discussing what the 8,1 should be like (due 2026 assuming no linear escalation, else 2034?) — pretty much what we're discussing now. I've probably saved myself something like $30k and a whole lot of OS lockdown headaches.