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MP 7,1 Waiting for Mac Pro 7,1 A1991 (no more)

deconstruct60 said:
Does Apple have a controlling interest in ARM? No.
Does Apple have a controlling interest in Imagination Tech (PowerVR)? No.
Sharp or any of the display panel vendors? No.

A beynond dubious criteria. Especially when it is not necessary.
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Apple has a partnership with ARM? NO, Apple is ARM Architectural Licensee, so Apple is free to develop its own ARM products, not just coping ARMv8 patterns, but crating its own ARMv8 compatible chips from ground up, so ARM cant control APPLE. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_Holdings#Licensees

With PowerVR its a morelesss similar relation but Apple just licenses ready made PowerVR cores, in case imagination decides no continue to dvelop or licensee its powerVR gpu, apple has plenty options to go forward.

Apple dont have a Partnership neither a licensee agreement tithe with SHARP, LG or Samsung about Displays, about LG's 'partnership' its just an typical OEM supplier agreement nothing special in case LG cant supply Apple's stores with the commissioned product Apple can switch to Sharp.

both scenarios are quite different as to get hogtied with some vendors architecture a Koyoot suggest, Apple won't allow AMD to rule every future Mac design nether make future Macs architecture deliberately incompatible with nVidia or intel.
 
border terrier said:
It's all pretty disappointing and as prices rise so much and still no Mac Pro replacement I may have bought my last Mac computer. If I break the ecosystem why would I stick with iPhone and iPad?
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OR why need anything beyond that?

Reign now I am really disappointed with the MacBook Pro update, as far as a consumer device I could stick with a phone or iPad beyond that-I don't need a Mac; I don't need an underpowered last gen tech Mac that has been purposefully gimped into an iOS extension.

Keep in mind this is coming from a 2012 rMBP and an iPhone 6. There hasn't been anything to make me want to upgrade.
[doublepost=1477876418][/doublepost]*justify an upgrade either.
 
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border terrier said:
It's all pretty disappointing and as prices rise so much and still no Mac Pro replacement I may have bought my last Mac computer. If I break the ecosystem why would I stick with iPhone and iPad?
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That's the secret door in the walled garden.
It seems to be less of a secret these days.
The captive audience seems to be getting fed up with captivity.

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border terrier said:
It's not an ecosystem without OS X/macOS though is it.
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this is what I have decided to do for the time being - hopefully apple manage to innovate a bit more on the phone side in the years to come, they are starting to stagnate here as well.... Not much loss in ecosystem to be honest with Win 10 and iphone/iPad. Just continnuity which I didnt use anyway...Only iMessage/sms I miss TBH. Apart from that, sharing files, iCloud image sync, contact sync, itunes Music, all works with windows. SO, not much to loose for a lot to gain.
 
border terrier said:
It's all pretty disappointing and as prices rise so much and still no Mac Pro replacement I may have bought my last Mac computer. If I break the ecosystem why would I stick with iPhone and iPad?
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They're great products that can stand alone without the ecosystem. I've never taken advantage of the ecosystem for the iPhones and iPads I've owned. They have been great devices without it.
 
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Totally agree. The only time I have hooked them up to the Mac is when I need a quick mobile charge or to do a restore-which I can do through iTunes on windows or in the device itself.
 
Hank Carter said:

44 cores (88 threads) / 2 TB RAM / 4 GPU cards / Multiple internal RAID etc
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Ok, thanks. This convinced me NOT to wait for a new Mac Pro and get a HP Z840 instead with 32 gigs of ram, 12-core Xeon, etc. and the latest NVIDIA Titan X. The Z840 cost me about 3200 euros (No tax). It arrives tomorrow. Might add a second Titan later. Too bad, Apple. You blew your chance.
 
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jclmavg said:
Ok, thanks. This convinced me NOT to wait for a new Mac Pro and get a HP Z840 instead with 32 gigs of ram, 12-core Xeon, etc. and the latest NVIDIA Titan X. The Z840 cost me about 3200 euros (No tax). It arrives tomorrow. Might add a second Titan later. Too bad, Apple. You blew your chance.
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Sounds like a good bargain, and I myself am looking for alternatives after the Macbook event, but what about the support (compared to the Apple support)? What's the reliability and in case something goes south, HP's support quality?
Really asking out of curiosity...
 
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Again, X299 mentioned.
And also:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/10809...kylakeep-details-via-the-open-compute-project
Seems like Ian hasn't heard of the -X and -W division yet.
[doublepost=1478085345][/doublepost]I'm not gonna say "be patient" but I believe we're in for a surprise. Good one too!!
[doublepost=1478086701][/doublepost]I spotted this but now it's an official confirmation.
It's a start, but we'd like to see more, specially on the nMP.
https://www.macrumors.com/2016/11/01/apple-drops-prices-on-ssd-upgrades-for-older-macs/

https://9to5mac.com/2016/11/01/apple-price-cuts-storage-upgrades-macbooks/
[doublepost=1478087020][/doublepost]The new rMBP SSDs are blazing fast, we might be getting improved performance also on the nMP.
[doublepost=1478087419][/doublepost]Now this would be cool.
 
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