MP 7,1 What? No Optical Drive???

[defjam]

Just throwing out some humor as this forum has become quite dead over the past few days.

 

[bob_stan]

No floppy either!

 

[goMac]

Not a serial port anywhere in sight WTF Apple

 

[lantree]

WTF are the joystick ports !! ?

 

[StuAff]

ADB keyboards don't get any love either.

 

[user_xyz]

Where are the Parallel Ports and Printer Ports??

 

[davidec]

How on earth am I meant to hookup my SCSI iomega Zip drive?

 

[kjohansen]

What happened to at least a few USB ports?

 

[octatonic]

WTF do I do with all these punch cards?

 

[defjam]

What happened to at least a few USB ports?

To my knowledge the 2019 Mac Pro includes at least two USB ports.

 

[aaronhead14]

In all seriousness though, I’m actually a little annoyed that there isn’t at least the space to add an internal Blu-ray drive for those that actually need one. As a filmmaker, I make Blu-rays and UHD discs all the time. It’s going to be annoying to have to use an external drive when there easily could have been a design to accommodate an internal one instead.

 

[chabig]

How do I connect to the internet without a modem port?

 

[defjam]

In all seriousness though, I’m actually a little annoyed that there isn’t at least the space to add an internal Blu-ray drive for those that actually need one. As a filmmaker, I make Blu-rays and UHD discs all the time. It’s going to be annoying to have to use an external drive when there easily could have been a design to accommodate an internal one instead.

While I created this thread in jest I did so while ripping some DVDs on my PowerMac G5 so that I could download them to my iPad. I then got to thinking...what is the official Apple position for using optical media on the 2019 Mac Pro (besides not using it)? Will their external DVD drive work with it?

 

[Ulenspiegel]

In a Mac Pro you need only "courage"...

 

[wallah]

Definitely returning mine. Doesn't work with my monitor even with BRAND NEW cables ffs.

 

[kjohansen]

To my knowledge the 2019 Mac Pro includes at least two USB ports.

In the base config it has 2 and I should have said Firewire, where is my Firewire. LOL

 

[AidenShaw]

In the base config it has 2 and I should have said Firewire, where is my Firewire. LOL

None of the kids here remember the ancient IEEE 1394 ports....

 

[firewire9000]

In the base config it has 2 and I should have said Firewire, where is my Firewire. LOL

I’m here, tell me.

 

[wallah]

To my knowledge the 2019 Mac Pro includes at least two USB ports.

...and there's one on the inside for some reason.

 

[thisisnotmyname]

It has a headphone jack

/ducks
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...and there's one on the inside for some reason.

for a dongle style software key

 

[Flint Ironstag]

While I created this thread in jest I did so while ripping some DVDs on my PowerMac G5 so that I could download them to my iPad. I then got to thinking...what is the official Apple position for using optical media on the 2019 Mac Pro (besides not using it)? Will their external DVD drive work with it?

On the 6,1 you had to enable the external superdrive via terminal command.

 

[bxs]

While I created this thread in jest I did so while ripping some DVDs on my PowerMac G5 so that I could download them to my iPad. I then got to thinking...what is the official Apple position for using optical media on the 2019 Mac Pro (besides not using it)? Will their external DVD drive work with it?

If you have another Mac that supports the slim Apple USB Superdrive you should be able to share it with the MP7,1. I do this with my iMac Pro.
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Just throwing out some humor as this forum has become quite dead over the past few days.

I want to see a person pulling their mighty MP7,1 beastie having wheels, behind them at the airport just as if it's a nutcase (sorry, a suitcase I meant).

 

[davidec]

None of the kids here remember the ancient IEEE 1394 ports....

Mentioned by the kid ‘GoMac’ in this thread and aka Serial port!

 

[lantree]

...and there's one on the inside for some reason.

Thats for the Apple RGB lighting kit

 

[Nermal]

In all seriousness though, I’m actually a little annoyed that there isn’t at least the space to add an internal Blu-ray drive for those that actually need one. As a filmmaker, I make Blu-rays and UHD discs all the time. It’s going to be annoying to have to use an external drive when there easily could have been a design to accommodate an internal one instead.

Especially given the "randomly lose the external drive" bug that's still present in 10.15...