My shorted ID gives me the edge...Dangit, Mago beat Mango by a few seconds.
Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
What will the mMP look like? Show us!
- Thread starter s-hatland
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
personally, i'm hoping for something with crystal modules
It's a very tough nut for them to crack I suppose. I really love the look of the nMP and the portability. I also think if it just had TB3 and they would offer external graphics cards in a chassis, it would work quite well. But obviously we won't see this design anymore. Not sure what they'll come up with.
.
i think they thought you all were asking for a hex-Mac instead of X-Mac.
i think they thought you all were asking for a hex-Mac instead of X-Mac.
1. I don't Intel has designed firmware to support E5 v2 and TB3.
2. Even if they had there isn't enough PCIe bandwidth to support 3 TBv3 controllers are full speed. Watering the PCIe bandwidth back to TBv2 levels buys a whole lot of nothing. Changed socket for no increase in speed or capabilities. That's a lot of nothing.
3. Even going to E5 v4 still is short for 6 ports. Apple could drop to four but if have committed to wholesale redesign that doesn't make sense to put tons of time and energy into a stop gap. The easy hack though would be just to stick two DisplayPort (maybe full size so not mistaken for TBv2 ports) for one of those pairs.
Although not mentioned in the recent roundtable, if Apple was also obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) with the commitment to 6 thunderbolt ports they also painted themselves into a corner with that too. It will uncork with E5 v5 , but does put them on an extremely long update cycle ( E5 v5 isn't coming until later this year. .... so the design was on almost a 4 year cycle. That's goofy.)
TBv3 doesn't solve the external graphic problem in and of itself. The primary blocker to external graphics is the OS and the graphics driver stack; not the physical TB controller or cabling. I don't think Apple has marked the graphics stack revisions as high priority items ( verus other stuff like Metal which is cross the whole Apple ecosystem significant). [ P.S., there are hacks to make external graphics happen to work (don't upload and do a rain dance on boot). I don't think Apple is going to ship a hack, nor would a gross hack likely make past Thunderbolt certification. ]
A fully functional modular design (LEGO) with 7700K and 1080Ti. 100% No screw driver required
http://www.totalgeekdom.com/?page_id=3781
http://www.totalgeekdom.com/?page_id=3781
LOL. I was thinking the same thing. It'll be a Mac Mini stacked on top of a Mac Mini. That way they can make two distgruntled customer segments happy at the same time.
From a thread I started last week:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/mac-pro-rack-mount-idea.2040864/#post-24482094
TLDR:Rack mountable Mac Pro design.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/mac-pro-rack-mount-idea.2040864/#post-24482094
TLDR:Rack mountable Mac Pro design.
Last edited:
Yeah, I'm pretty sure by the end of this year Schiller will regret using the word "modular" so much in that briefing, when what he was referring to was a return to a Mac Pro with upgradable components (GPU, storage, etc.)
Is "upgradable" really that much of a dirty word at Apple now?
Is "upgradable" really that much of a dirty word at Apple now?
Just imagined phil schiller in a superman costume introducing the superfast mac pro
Maybe in Shiny Black"upgraded" to cheesegrater cooling system
Sorry, but I can't image Phil in a lycra cat suit.
![manofsteelhottoys2[1].jpg](https://forums.macrumors.com/data/attachments/610/610980-61ec6b6d39c8e2cfa1c816e3b971cf40.jpg "manofsteelhottoys2[1].jpg")
here's a re-run idea:
the idea is that the thing is a time clock for work.
employees put their phone in when they get to work which clocks them in.. if they pull it out and start texting/instagramming/etc, they're off the clock and you won't be paying them for their social networking skillz.
subsequent features are that it charges the phones as well as clusters for processing if needed.. for a little security, the touchID on the side ejects only the individual's phone.
.
the idea is that the thing is a time clock for work.
employees put their phone in when they get to work which clocks them in.. if they pull it out and start texting/instagramming/etc, they're off the clock and you won't be paying them for their social networking skillz.
subsequent features are that it charges the phones as well as clusters for processing if needed.. for a little security, the touchID on the side ejects only the individual's phone.
.
Funny thing, I bet it would still be more quieter than my single Powercolor AMD RX 480 in my second PC at home
I think considering the next iPhone will comeback to the glass sandwich design, Apple could recycle its design language into the mMP, with something like this (thermaltake view 27)
But on opaque glass (sorry for those loving the pink tubes)
But on opaque glass (sorry for those loving the pink tubes)