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New Mac Pro-will you buy one?

Will you buy a new cylinder style Mac Pro

  • Yes, I love it, this is all I need

    Votes: 86 55.5%

  • No, I hate it, its just a big mac mini

    Votes: 12 7.7%

  • No, I need a way to keep it all my components in one box

    Votes: 18 11.6%

  • No, I hate extra cables and power supply on my desk from extra components

    Votes: 15 9.7%

  • No, see my explanation below

    Votes: 24 15.5%
  • Total voters
    155
Nope not buying. I am sticking to my current setup using tower Mac Pros. And the apps and softwares I am currently using, not sure if there will be no problems with the new OSX with new hardware. With the new 2013 Mac Pro, would mean new setup, new expenses that may be higher. Like for external backup system, I still may need a second backup for my first backup since my first backup is not really a backup.

Since it's a first generation design hardware, would need to see how it performs for long hours usage 7 days a week. You never know, example like the retina MBP ghost image problems encountered. Another unknown variable is when will companies come up with TB2 devices and at what price and if the features, specs fit well for our needs.
 
Four "no" options but only one "yes"? Talk about a slanted poll.

I have my reservations about the new Mac Pro, but I'll definitely get one. My 2006 model is rather long in the tooth and I'd like to free up some desk space.
 
I won't be buying one of the new Mac Pro's.

I have just migrated from a efi-x machine to the Mac Pro 5.1 in my signature ( PSU went and not happy with the machine since. I personally feel that without having more information available then what we have the going to be over specced for what I need. Certainly don't need a 12 Core CPU and Dual W9000 GPU's and no idea what lower specs or price will be.

I got in with a second hand 5.1 before the price started going up, as reading the forum then quite a few people intend on getting a 5.1 and maxxing out.

It will also give a time for the new Mac Pro to settle in, and hopefully the TB expansion market to mature ( get less expensive ).

As I use for Personal Use only then I know that not really the target audience, but am impressed with what seen so far, just above what I need currently.
 
This poll is another tribute to the diminution of intellect.

A way to vote on the merits of something that isn't available and can't be judged fairly vs. something that does exist and could be easily improved.

I say.... give me a slamming cheese grater and a high intensity trash can.

I'm open to both.
 
If they don't go too crazy with the price I will happily get one of these brand new innovative Mac Mini Pros. Darn shame that Apple is phasing out the Mac Pro but for us Mac Mini users, this is the next logical step up.

All kidding aside, I will probably get this new machine as it has far more in common with a Mac Mini (which I use presently) for photo work, general use and small video projects.

For those of you who are hard core Mac Pro users, honestly I do feel that this machine will work well for some and not others. I used to have a Mac Pro but over time the later Mac Mini models worked as fast and ate up far less power. (Didn't hurt putting in 16 gigs of RAM and SSD).
 
No. I am lucky to have a 2010 Hexacore 3.33GHz MP so I can sit this round out. I can't wait to see what Apple does to tweak or change generation two of the new Mac Pro. This is too big a change and too expensive to be an early adopter for.
 
yes, it will work well for on-location work. Think / hope it will be more reliable than laptop / imac because of heat and form factor. Falls short in expandability and is a bit of a dissapointment for the studio workspace ... which is why the tower will stay. But def need an upgrade, although the 1,1 is still pretty impressive
 
Glen Quagmire said:
Four "no" options but only one "yes"? Talk about a slanted poll.
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Seriously.. how about Undecided?

I didn't vote because I haven't decided. I'm going to wait for some reviews and benchmarks first.

Being a first gen, it's also subject to unforeseen hardware issues, like the single fan being a potential weak spot.
 
I am going to buy it, but not the first and maybe not the second generation. I had a Mac Pro 1,1 that was doing fine. I teach music at a university, so i use my machine for audio production. I mainly use Logic. I also use UAD plug-ins, which run on a PCIe card. I was using an RME Fireface interface. I am switching to the UAD Apollo, which has a thunderbolt adapter and incorporates the DSP chips for he plug-ins, so i will sell my UAD card. As i said, i won't upgrade until the second or third generation because, in my opinion, Apple crippled the 1,1 with the 32 bit EFI. In the meantime, i replaced my 1,1 with a 5,1, which will get me to generation 3 of the nMP. Ironically, i gave my 1,1 machine to my son who also uses Logic. Apple just realeased Logic X, which requires 10.8, so now he can't upgrade. I think i will pick him up a 4,1 to get him over the hump.

All the best.
 
hell no, 12 core, 680 mac, x2 840 pro 256 in sonnet tempo, 16gb of ram, orico 4 port usb 3.0...only thing i do not have is thunderbolt which i absolutely do not or will not ever need.
 
absolutely yes

Yes, I will be ordering one of these on Day 1. I'm looking forward to having a machine on my desk with 128 GB of RAM. I can easily use that much RAM in the computations that I do. (Admittedly, I'm a scientist.) I do have big computing clusters available for bigger research, but it's nice to have a big place to test things on one's desk before batching them out to larger clusters. I've been waiting a long time for this upcoming purchase.
 
mward333 said:
Yes, I will be ordering one of these on Day 1. I'm looking forward to having a machine on my desk with 128 GB of RAM. I can easily use that much RAM in the computations that I do. (Admittedly, I'm a scientist.) I do have big computing clusters available for bigger research, but it's nice to have a big place to test things on one's desk before batching them out to larger clusters. I've been waiting a long time for this upcoming purchase.
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That can be done now.
 
I might buy it, depending on the price and how my needs evolve, and how I think they'll be evolving two or three years down the road.

Open CL is the future for many things, but I also need something now, I don't want to buy a 2013 computer so that I can use it in 2014 or later when software makes use of it's admittedly huge processing power.
 
mward333 said:
Ah, but I'm looking for that machine to be a Mac. I think that the current max RAM in a Mac Pro is 96 GB of RAM. I'm not messing around with hackintoshes for my research.
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Thats an OSX limitation, not a Mac Pro limitation. If the tube ships with ML it'll have the same limitation. If Mavericks moves that bar higher the old MP will also be moved.
 
Actually you can put 128 GBs of Ram in the current twin CPU Mac Pro with the new OS 10.9, Mavericks.

Lou
 
flowrider said:
Actually you can put 128 GBs of Ram in the current twin CPU Mac Pro with the new OS 10.9, Mavericks.

Lou
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This is good to know. Thanks to both of you for pointing it out.

Nonetheless, I'm still planning to buy the new guy. I sure hope Mavericks lets us utilize 128 GB of RAM. I think it will, since the new guy appears to be able to hold that much RAM as an Apple build-to-order configuration, from all current indications we've seen so far....
 
I clicked "Yes" but I don't really agree with the "I love it, this is all I need" part. :p

I'll get this version or the next (MP7,1?) depending on speed and price. All of the "No" options didn't fit any of the reasonable criteria I use to select a machine. Price and speed is pretty much it for me...
 
mward333 said:
This is good to know. Thanks to both of you for pointing it out.

Nonetheless, I'm still planning to buy the new guy. I sure hope Mavericks lets us utilize 128 GB of RAM. I think it will, since the new guy appears to be able to hold that much RAM as an Apple build-to-order configuration, from all current indications we've seen so far....
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the problem is it'll require 4 32GB DIMM's at 700 to 1000 each, the old you can use 8 16GB DIMM's which cost 100-150 each.
 
GermanyChris said:
the problem is it'll require 4 32GB DIMM's at 700 to 1000 each, the old you can use 8 16GB DIMM's which cost 100-150 each.
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Yup! Or maybe a little less ( http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BV1WOFQ ) And can you believe it, someone will likely pay that much for it only to have the price sink down to about $200 a DIMM in just a few months time. Man, that's gonna hurt (someone). :p
 
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