pricing for new Mac Cylinder

[PortableLover]

I really want a 6 core variant myself, however this really depends on pricing. Lets hope price is competitive. I'd like the option for nvidia cards as well

 

[Dr. Stealth]

Hmmm your 40+ year background is incorrect!

I know of a handful of Apple employee's who will and have been building them.

And they laughed at you calling them a Goober and not allowed to repeat what the called you. Your facts are incorrect Dr.Stealth.

The Mac Pros are far from being in production. Have you ever actually seen a real production line? It is by far one of the worst jobs you could ever imagine. We're not talking Apple campus life. You are expected to perform like a machine while keeping your mouth shut. It's grueling.

1. Designed in California

2. Made in China

3. Final Assembly in the US


Apple has stated.....

"By leveraging the innovative power of industry-leading companies in Texas, Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, and over a dozen other states across America, we’re able to build a product that’s impeccably constructed and beautiful in every detail. In other words, exactly as it was envisioned by our designers and engineers in California.” – Apple

That's fancy lingo for "We're contracting it out".

Ask your handful of Apple friends if this is what their work surroundings look like... If it doesn't now it's going to and they may want to start looking for a new line of work. Burger King would be a step up.

 

[92jlee]

Oh yea, because I'm sure that an applied mathematician like myself has no need for 'serious computer processing' power since I don't make movies. I mean, I only have this measly 96 compute core infiniband cluster

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and this other stupid 40 compute core infinband workstation

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I mean, it's not like I'd want a Mac pro as a visualization workstation to deal with datasets that are on the order of 100GB each? It's only movie studios that use workstations right?

stupid trolls

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On topic, I'm really hoping the pricing is competitive. I'd like to get my hands on one just for visualization. I prefer using Macs for my workflow since I don't have to jump between Windows and RHEL when I'm writing papers or writing code respectively.


And you hit it right on the money. I need the high core count, a bare minimum of 64GB ram, and a decent workstation GPU (no need for two). Also I'm wondering what the storage and NIC situations will be, because I need to be able to move big data around.

That looks awesome. What exactly do you do?

 

[tony3d]

These guys seem to think $4000-$6000.
http://leoville.tv/podcasts/mbw.xml

 

[itsmrjon]

That looks awesome. What exactly do you do?

I write large scale (thousands of cores) numerical codes. Most apply to computational fluid dynamics / computational combustion. Some aerospace stuff, a little bit of aerodynamics.

I test on small clusters (like my 96 compute and 40 compute) and deploy on huge clusters part of the XSEDE network.

 

[Kryckter]

These guys seem to think $4000-$6000.
http://leoville.tv/podcasts/mbw.xml

Ouch... I would certainly hope they are going to try to stay around 3k for the base model.

We shall see

 

[spunkgarLEWII]

Given Apple's history of pricing entry level Mac Pro models, all of them started out at 2499.99 and I assume the same will hold true for the iTube Mac Pro.

Ouch... I would certainly hope they are going to try to stay around 3k for the base model.

We shall see

 

[Michael73]

For many professionals, give them a MP, a good display and the right software and they can earn a six figure income. Now, weigh that against a $5k or $10k purchase price for a MP. And now spread that cost over the machine's 3 to 5 year life span. I think you'll figure out that for just a few dollars a day that translates to a massive ROI.