So decided to buy a 7,1 and waiting, but not patiently....
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MP 7,1 Waiting and not patiently
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We've only been waiting nine years (since the first 5,1) .....
People use Windows because it's what comes with the computer they bought.
I tried that once. Wasn't stable enough for me.
Yeah my work might be swapping out my Windows workstation for a MP 7,1 - but all this secrecy business is not helping the situation.
Have the parts for my hackintosh on order.
I will be employing my time-honoured method of savings and remorse.
My ceramics teacher came into class so drunk he fell into the kiln.
He got fired.
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Please. If people used what was best, the world would run on a 64-bit version of OS/2.
Like it or not, people use windows because they prefer it to other operating systems.
Couldn't wait any longer. Purchased my first PC after 15-years of only Macs. Its a refurbished (but warranted with in-home service) high-end gaming PC that I would probably need to spend at least twice (maybe 3 times) the money to get a new Mac Pro with the same performance.
Looks like the 10th rumors are correct - just got an email from Apple 
Many, many MBP 16s arrived early - best of luck with MP as well! And post performance figures and impressions!
LOL amateur.....still using my MP 1.1 from 2006!
Yes, also waiting for 7.1 to be released.
I would really like to be able to plan my purchase. This is annoying as I've been planning to purchase the Mac Pro 7,1 since mid-2017.
No, it is still there. At the very bottom of store.apple.com, click on "Financing" and you will be shown the two choices: Apple Card or BarclayCard.
Has anyone given Apple the benefit of the doubt that maybe they are negiotiating with suppliers to the eleventh hour so they can offer better upgrade pricing? They can do this retrospectively for components already purchased. I personally am happy for them to take their time if it means better value for consumers.
Apple hasn't earned the benefit of the doubt.
If Apple is negotiating anything, it's probably higher margins - not lower prices.
I find this puzzling as well.
Windows maps volumes to drive letters via a signature (think of it as a GUID) assigned when the volume is created. You can move the disk around between different ports or slots - but the signature doesn't change and the drive letter therefore doesn't change.
The drive number may change, but the drive number is basically irrelevant at the system and user level - the signature->drive.letter mapping is what matters. (Note that if you clone a partition with an offline tool - Windows will notice the duplicate signature and change one of them so that all signatures are unique.)
If you worry about what volume \\.\PhysicalDrive3 maps to you are delving into the black forces that mortals should avoid.
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Nice marketing video I'll wait for actual shipping dates.
It is a dual edged video. It actually makes some of the folks who are impatient feel worse because they now know there is a perfectly good Mac Pro that they could be using now just sitting in a warehouse doing nothing. And that Apple is going to make them wait 2-3 weeks to jump into some 'lotto' of happen to be fastest to click on the buy button to get one within a reasonable amount of time. Agitating those folks is not building back trust that Apple has lost over the last 6 years or so. Apple said it was a 2019 product (so could plan fiscally) and for several of them it is not going to be a 2019 purchase ( which means Apple completely failed to deliver on a promise. So Apple shot giant holes in their plan. ). Apple pissed away the vast majority of 2019. And can't make the configuration the user wants because refuses to ask the user what they do want in 2019 now. ( Instead have to wait for delight and surprise date and even pricing info. ).
But yes it is nice for busting the bubble for the "It is just vapourware" , "it is not coming" BS mongering that is going on now in some discussions bouncing around the Internet. The notion that they are going to miss a December deadline now has about zero truth to it. Even if they didn't have enough to comfortably meet the initial demand bubble demand they could just release what they do have and may 'hay" out of the "Incredible demand from delighted creatives for this new product." (when the scarcity is all of their own making).
Nice marketing video I'll wait for actual shipping dates.
The president was there, he wouldn't lie about it would he?