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New Mac Pros and MacBook Pros Today???
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If new ones were announced today, I wonder if that $4,999 sticker price still be there for 2012 hardware.
I woke up in the middle of the night and checked the store on my phone, it was still down. I fell back asleep and had several dreams about the new Mac pro! Bummer nothing happened, but I enjoyed some fun speculative dreams. At least I had a virtual 'new mac pro' experience!
Between the Facebook campaign and the Forbes article (here's the link to that article from the original post in case you haven't seen it):
http://www.forbes.com/sites/benzing...le-fans-want-a-product-the-company-wont-make/
Between those two things, this is getting so much publicity that it could get to the point that Apple wouldn't be able to release the new MP silently. It could become rather compelling for them to make the release a big deal for good PR.
I think a fully loaded iMac will be enough for what I plan on doing. iMacs, desktops, laptops etc... computers in general... have come a LONG way in the past 5 or so years. An iMac with a hefty SSD and Thunderbolt tech is beastly.
BUT I would still love to see what a new Mac Pro has to offer.
BUT I would still love to see what a new Mac Pro has to offer.
I think a fully loaded iMac will be enough for what I plan on doing. iMacs, desktops, laptops etc... computers in general... have come a LONG way in the past 5 or so years. An iMac with a hefty SSD and Thunderbolt tech is beastly.
BUT I would still love to see what a new Mac Pro has to offer.
I thought the same thing as you, but I was oh so wrong, Oh so wrong, Sold the iMac and went to a older mac pro for now... Cooling, storage, ram, all so much superior and will be so worth the wait.
What cooling issues did you hit? Was it just that it gets hot to the touch or did it carry actual symptoms? I'm just wondering. They're probably on the edge of being enough for me when maxed out fully (even though I'd make the 27" into my secondary display because my current one is still significantly better). My concerns were more like ports (especially for storage) and serviceability (it's terrible). A mac pro has a lot of advantages, but it's likely that we'll see another extremely expensive 6 core, and not everything I use scales well with cpu core counts
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What cooling issues did you hit? Was it just that it gets hot to the touch or did it carry actual symptoms? I'm just wondering. They're probably on the edge of being enough for me when maxed out fully (even though I'd make the 27" into my secondary display because my current one is still significantly better). My concerns were more like ports (especially for storage) and serviceability (it's terrible). A mac pro has a lot of advantages, but it's likely that we'll see another extremely expensive 6 core, and not everything I use scales well with cpu core counts
Mostly it was when using at load I found the temps to close to max operating temp for my comfort, since I tended to leave it up all night transcoding or rendering, i didn't want it to be so close to overheating when not attended. So now I find the older pro I'm on to be much farther from the operating temp, which is nice.
And with this just coming up, I plan on getting the next one.
http://iphone.appleinsider.com/arti...rce_says_no_chance_apple_will_ax_mac_pro.html
Australian store still down when you access from the home page, individual Mac (e.g. MBP, iMac) pages buy now option is still working. Maybe they are upgrading the actual Apple store and it has nothing to do with new products at the moment.
