Today with the unveiling of the new 2013 Mac Pro, a whole wave of criticism has come from this site which to say the least is detestable.
Even without any details people jumped to the conclusion that it can not be opened, can't be upgraded and that it is made of plastic. All of which is not true
Such criticism should only be coming from a cheesy Windows 8 supporter who is pissed off about no longer having a start button, not from the MacRumors community. It has become increasingly hard to see who supports the Mac Pro anymore on this once great community.
What has been revealed from Apple with the new Mac Pro has revolutionized the entire personal and professional computer market. It's design is unlike any other computer on the market. The new Mac Pro has changed how we view computer form factors and computer power vs. size.
It is quite obvious that the new Mac Pro will have a new Intel Ivy Bridge E5 2600 v2 12 core processor as shown in leaked roadmaps. At a minimum for people who hate the look of the Mac Pro this will provide Hackintosh users with power management for the newest generation Intel chips.
For those who want expandability with graphics cards, just like with the Saphire HD 7950, there will be alternative options for the Mac Pro. The Mac Pro is not closed.
Apple has equipped the Mac Pro with 6 of the fastest memory I/O's in the world and still complaints about hard drive expandability are excessive. Every major manufacture of external hard drives manufactures Thunderbolt devices. The reason for this is because the future is on the cloud, not on your hard drive.
This computer is called a "Pro" for a reason, and it's not because it's built for every poor cretin on this site who owns an iPhone. In fact most of the people on here who say they wouldn't buy it now wouldn't buy a new mac pro in the old form factor simply because it costs too much.
Are you scared of change? Scared of innovation? Scared of computers that are not box shaped? Or are you just so caught up in your own view of the world that you fail to see what is truly in front of you? Apple is showing you what you want, that's their job, you just don't know it yet.
Yeah, some of the criticism is as you say; uninformed, untrue, and even stupid.
But that doesn't mean all of it is. Also you are making some mistakes as well. It is not "open" as you say. And unless several WinTel makers change over to a unified heat-sink there will not be 3rd party GPU options available for it. We will be stuck with ONLY Apple offerings which is one of the very intended purposes of this design.
I do agree that the idiots posting trashcans and stuff should have their posts deleted (or moved to some other sub-forum [do we have one for Jokes?]) and they are probably nothing more than trolls. Trolling is against the rules here. But in the same breath you're going too far in the other direction. Just look at the responses you're getting if you don't think you're going too far.
The new MP6,1 has
not by any means "revolutionized the entire personal and professional computer market" as you said. Not even kinda close. The new MP6,1 is a current spec workstation that's been stripped to the point of no longer being a workstation, and sports a highly engineered new form factor. So what's new here? The form factor - that's it! Nothing more.
Now Apple deserves a lot of respect IMO for this form factor! It's literally thinking outside the box! Awesome stuff! Especially if they pass along some of the cost cuts in the form of lower sticker prices!!! And it that becomes true I'm buying one! But I'm not even a Professional any longer - I'm retired. If I were still working doing what I used to do I wouldn't touch this new design to use as a workstation unless it was incredibly inexpensive ($1k or so). Here's just one example of why not:
I became active on this site once again about 4 months ago or so - looking to upgrade my system and hunting for new hacks and techniques. On the issue of GPU one of the issues anyone considering a MP6,1 should be paying attention to, I found everyone recommending the GTX 570. A few days later a new ATI card was released. A month or so later the GTX 670 and 680 started to see many recommendations and proof-of-function installations. Just a few months after that we are now already talking about the GTX 7xx cards. That's just in the past half year or less and the GTX 770 is a dramatic improvement over the GTX 570. What would anyone interested in any of the 4 card options I just mentioned, do if they had a MacPro6,1?
Now, I think that TB2 is in most cases fast enough to handle something like a 670 or probably any of the single chip cards without typical users noticing any difference. So Games, 3D modeling and animation, web browsing, and even matte compositing probably won't take a hit. But how about for the other people, cards with dual chips and two VRAM banks, and when the GTX 990 is released? What then how about them? With the new MP6,1 if Apple keeps to similar policies as in the past, they will
have to suffer waiting on Apple to release a card upgrade indeed
IF Apple even does at all.
And this is the trouble with closed proprietary systems. Even just the little bit of propriety that Apple imbued into the MP1,1 ~ 5,1 has caused us all endless headaches and forced us to turn to very unprofessional solutions such as hacks boot-screen forfeiture, and so on. Now we're looking at a system with buttloads of propriety in the new MP6,1 and some of us know very well what that will incur as we attempt to maintain our system(s) over the next 3 to 5 years.
