Unless they eventually move us 100% to the cloud and sell us a subscription and a monitor.
I'm old school. I like to see where my files are stored and make my own backups even if "they" say I don't need to worry about that anymore.
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Waiting till Day 600.
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Unless they eventually move us 100% to the cloud and sell us a subscription and a monitor.
I'm old school. I like to see where my files are stored and make my own backups even if "they" say I don't need to worry about that anymore.
I hope your right, but the media and all else seem to be pushing the death of the desktop pc form factor.
In view of increasing popularity, global demand for tablet PCs of all types will rise to 130 million units in 2013, possibly exceeding that for desktops, according to Taiwan-based supply chain makers.
They are also pushing "The Cloud" and other nonsensical things to blow up their bubbles. Get me a 200Mb pipe with 50-100Mb up and security in writing and I'll think about it. Otherwise they can continue to cater to the Facebook gen and I will chuckle and look away. They are cooking the food but you don't have to eat it. And if you don't eat it they will do something else. If they truly want a "post PC" environment they need to release devices not hamstrung by lack of file systems and basic features that have to be added through modularly based apps. If it was more open I may jump on board but they are most definitely additions to your computing not replacements. And if you read through the lines of Apples talking points they allude to this. Laptops and Desktops just don't garner too much excitement anymore as they are old news. The new stuff, as it is, is a premature infant on a respirator. I am in the waiting room.
I'm excited for the climax to this story on March 19th, when you buy a new Dell.
Shhh. I'm trying to create a jinx.
By expecting no new Mac Pro in ten days and openly declaring he'll be buying a Dell, the jinx gods should hear me and prove me wrong.
It's like when you wash your car after letting it stay dirty for a while, and it suddenly rains/snows. "They" are always watching for these things.
Shhh. I'm trying to create a jinx.
By expecting no new Mac Pro in ten days and openly declaring he'll be buying a Dell, the jinx gods should hear me and prove me wrong.
It's like when you wash your car after letting it stay dirty for a while, and it suddenly rains/snows. "They" are always watching for these things.
A couple pages before your comment I wrote that I am no longer waiting for a Mac Pro. I don't really care about it anymore..Apple is no longer interested in it (even if they might release a new and last Mac Pro).
I have a bought a Sandy Bridge-E PC yesterday
I wish the best for you guys and hope you will see a new Mac Pro..but think about it, if it's not this year sooner or later you will be forced to switch to Windows if you still want something as powerful as the Mac Pro...or just get an iMac/Mac Mini.
A couple pages before your comment I wrote that I am no longer waiting for a Mac Pro. I don't really care about it anymore..Apple is no longer interested in it (even if they might release a new and last Mac Pro).
I have a bought a Sandy Bridge-E PC yesterday
Really? That's cool... how do you like it? I'm curious. I have an old PC I built a long while back now, and I'm thinking of building a new one. I've not been keeping up with the PC side of things lately.
That's exactly what I did...I bought components and I will build it myself. I got the BEST components out there: i7 3960x 3.3, 32 Gig of DDR3 1600, Nvidia GTX 580, SSD for OS, 3 TB Storage and a 27" LCD monitor. It cost me around $3.500
I think I will be just fine..Windows 7 isn't that bad after all.
Could you do a geekbench benchmark of that machine for me please? I want to see how it compares with the current top of the range Mac Pro.That's exactly what I did...I bought components and I will build it myself. I got the BEST components out there: i7 3960x 3.3, 32 Gig of DDR3 1600, Nvidia GTX 580, SSD for OS, 3 TB Storage and a 27" LCD monitor. It cost me around $3.500
I think I will be just fine..Windows 7 isn't that bad after all.
Simply put, Apple doesn't care.
They created a wild demand for the consumer devices they sell, they have the most money, they're not concerned. It's just how it is.
iOS is the cash cow, everything else is a distant second.
They have worked long and hard to gain this much control over the customers & enjoy the power they have.
They created a wild demand for the consumer devices they sell, they have the most money, they're not concerned. It's just how it is.
iOS is the cash cow, everything else is a distant second.
They have worked long and hard to gain this much control over the customers & enjoy the power they have.
I'm still waiting for all the components to get here and don't really know how to do a geekbench benchmark. I do know though that less (fast) cores = better for most softwares out there. I will use this machine for music (Cubase is my main software) and a couple games here and there (hence the GTX 580). A 16 cores (Sandy Bridge E5 xeon) workstation would give me only around 25% improvement so I got a fast six core Processor.
Apple loves this type of attitude. There is no community support, it's dog eat dog, a great show for Apple to watch
Yeah I read about that..should be a big improvement but I guess the GTX 580 will keep me quiet for quite a long time
No. E5 Xeons are released and so Apple can ship 6,1 Mac Pros within the next few weeks, however they may wait and release all Mac desktops at the same time with Ivy Bridge if that is available to them early.
There has been NO indication Apple will stop making Mac Pros. You may as well say there will be no iMacs, Minis, Macbooks or anything else. Apple don't talk about their products in public so any product is essentially between now and never.
You mean other than the fact that we are now nearing 2 years since the last refresh? And the fact that everything about Apple's recent product strategy points to rapidly declining interest (and ever decreasing slice in Apple revenues) in high-end desktops? And how about recent introduction of Thunderbolt, which in a lot of ways makes the notion of a huge desktop tower all but obsolete?
I will be shocked if Apple continues to sell Mac Pros in their current form factor past 2012. The current Pro chassis is a beast and everything about it screams 2005. The fact that there haven't been any credible rumors of redesigned Mac Pro chassis does not bode well for its future.
Sad nut true. I really hope Apple doesn't abandon its past completely. Surely they have enough resources to keep everything afloat...