Pumped for the new Mac Pro!! Heres my purchase!

[Bubba Satori]

Steve may be gone but Steve's people are not..

The mini tower is a dying breed only geeks really want them any they build them

Source?

 

[GermanyChris]

Source?

See my last post..

 

[xgman]

Anyway, I think we've got away from the original point of the thread.

Actually I think the real point of any of these "new mac pro" threads is simply to generate some buzz by talking about something that Apple simply won't. Well that and vent a little bit here and there.

 

[Umbongo]

I wouldn't class SB LGA1155 as workstation grade TBH.

I certainly wouldn't buy a Mac Pro with a LGA1155 CPU in it! Why would anyone else given it's practically the same price as the lower end SB-E??

Still a Xeon with ECC memory, out performs a lot of what's been available, cheaper due to reduced board costs, a lot more processor options below that $300 price point, micro ATX form factor. Has a fair bit going for it as a workstation platform. I would rather have a 6-core and 8 memory slots with the option to upgrade to an 8-core and all that the SB-EP platform has to offer, but many just want the in between.

If this information has been given out, where is it? Or is it to corporations only?

How do we know that corporations that have large MP orders with Apple don't know what is going on? NDAs..

It's not public, but it isn't that hard to get if you are an established customer. Apple may share with the mega corporations, but not to the level other vendors do with smaller customers.

Anyway, I think we've got away from the original point of the thread.

As all Mac Pro threads seem to do

 

[-hh]

...The only real change I foresee in the future (and this is *far* future) is when SSDs replace HDDs in capacity and price and the case is altered to take SSDs only...

Or there's a hybrid approach of just adding a couple of SSDs to the existing design without touching the three 3.5" HDD bays - - wouldn't be a bad thing for Apple to OEM at least the boot drive this way to then be able to lay claim to those I/O performance gains.

While a couple of 2.5" bays replacing the second optical bay is one approach (and a popular aftermarket mod), another alternative would be to put a fast "boot" SSD right on the motherboard by using the same "SSD Sticks" that the MacBook Air is already using.


-hh

 

[scottsjack]

Or there's a hybrid approach of just adding a couple of SSDs to the existing design without touching the three 3.5" HDD bays - - wouldn't be a bad thing for Apple to OEM at least the boot drive this way to then be able to lay claim to those I/O performance gains.

While a couple of 2.5" bays replacing the second optical bay is one approach (and a popular aftermarket mod), another alternative would be to put a fast "boot" SSD right on the motherboard by using the same "SSD Sticks" that the MacBook Air is already using.


-hh

I like this idea better; Same MP case but with eight SATA ports instead of the current six. Since mainboards seem to be a mixture of SATA2 and SATA3 Apple could supply an additional dual SATA/power lead in the lower bay for a pair of SATA3 SSDs.

It wouldn't be very difficult for aftermarket companies to supply cables that would tie the four upper/lower bay SATA cables if a user would rather hang SSDs or HHDs off the drives in bays one through four.