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Would you order a new Mac Pro if it was released now? We would order 8

None. My 2010 is everything I need at the moment. A new MP would be great though. I'd like to know that I didn't buy my most recent Mac back in the days when Apple made real computers.

That said Windows 8 might be so bad that I'll buy anything Apple makes as an alternative to looking at huge green rectangles every time I boot up!
 
My office would buy two new ones now and two more in September.

I just wish Apple would be kind enough with their actual pro products to give us some inkling of when updates are coming or even if they are coming. We have to plan and budget, and this uncertainty makes that a more onerous task than it already is.
 
Tussen69 said:
Many are afraid that Apple have show little love for the Mac Pro lately ...

So I thought it would be interesting on how many of you and how many Mac Pro you would order if it was released soon ..

Our leasing contract for our Mac Pros are running out so we are looking on replacing them with new ones ...

so we would order 8 of them ...
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At least one
 
goMac said:
One. Would have to see what the specs are before committing to a model. Most likely a DP.




Testing is done on production samples probably 6 months before the chip starts shipping. Companies don't wait for chips to ship to test.

That's why you see lots of production samples leak to Ebay.
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That is not complete "SYSTEM" testing - they may be waiting for various TB chips or certain graphics cards or who knows what to complete the final pre-production testing. Recalls are expensive and bad for QC reputation.
 
Apple Corps said:
That is not complete "SYSTEM" testing - they may be waiting for various TB chips or certain graphics cards or who knows what to complete the final pre-production testing. Recalls are expensive and bad for QC reputation.
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All those components would have pre-production samples as well.

I highly doubt any Mac Pro delay is due to testing. Could be due to component shortages, but not testing.
 
I get the feeling that IF they do release a new Mac Pro, we have maybe months to wait rather than days or weeks. The only hope I hold out is that they are waiting on Intel's new updated Thunderbolt chips which I think are due to be announced next week? Frankly if they do wait some months, they might as well just hold off till next year and do an Ivy box.

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goMac said:
Could be due to component shortages, but not testing.
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This seems to be Apple's excuse for everything these days. Nobody can adequately furnish Apple with the proper parts. One delay after the other. Even the iphone 5.
 
goMac said:
All those components would have pre-production samples as well.

I highly doubt any Mac Pro delay is due to testing. Could be due to component shortages, but not testing.
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But you don't go into mass production before you have assembled a group for final release testing.

I'm not sure there is a delay at all - just normal pre production work, inventory build, distribution, etc.

Some people (not suggesting you) act as if their is some huge delay - I don't see it. To the best of my knowledge, Apple has never been the first "out of the chute" to ship hardware with the newest Intel releases.
 
xgman said:
This seems to be Apple's excuse for everything these days. Nobody can adequately furnish Apple with the proper parts. One delay after the other. Even the iphone 5.
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My guess is if there was a component shortage it would be the TB controller or GPU. I'm not sure that new TB controller Intel has is shipping in volume yet, and aren't new NVidia GPUs still incoming?

Of course Apple could also be waiting for the next solar eclipse, just because.
 
Apple Corps said:
But you don't go into mass production before you have assembled a group for final release testing.

I'm not sure there is a delay at all - just normal pre production work, inventory build, distribution, etc.

Some people (not suggesting you) act as if their is some huge delay - I don't see it. To the best of my knowledge, Apple has never been the first "out of the chute" to ship hardware with the newest Intel releases.
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2009 Mac Pros were first to receive Nehalem chips by about a month.
 
4 just for starters, and I'm CEO of a small business doing only around 10 million year in sales ... imagine what the big corps could do with Mac's now that they've matured so much and are so easily windows compatible, etc, etc, etc! ...

On the front page of the forum it's written GE has adopted the iphone and ipad over rim's Blackberry and how it "could" spin into more Mac sales ... but ... how is this going to happen without a Mac Pro like machine? I don't get it, it's been longer than long since an update yet the potential market for Mac Pro sales has to be growing not shrinking?
 
Brings up a great point and one I have been beating on for a few years. The halo is on full effect. Business will not adopt iMac en masse because of the lack of flexibility. Where do all the users turn? Macbook Pro only right now. Only Mac's I am deploying right now.
 
I'd buy one day it's announced. My 2008 needs speed updates. If I don't see one by end of year, I"m likely looking hackintosh, never thought I'd say that.
 
I'm surprised that the current uncertainty and lack of upgrade wouldn't make people seriously question upgrading.

Kind of a bit like buying a Saab right now.
 
Yup

Yes, one to replace my old G5 2.5 Quad. With iCloud, Lion, Mountain Lion, and everything else, even though the aging G5 does OK with HDV editing, I can't move onto tapeless workflow yet. Rendering and compression do take forever on the G5.

Don't know if I'd get a 27" Thunderbolt display to replace / augment my 30" Cinema Display.
 
Just say YES to new Mac Pro

I check every day to see if the new one is out yet. Apple, you canNOT expect anyone to spend that kind of money on something that is 633 days old. New one? I don't care what it costs. I need the speed, the graphics and, especially, the expandability that will never be in a lesser computer. I know we're waiting for Intel, but...PLEASE make it happen ASAP!
 
entatlrg said:
On the front page of the forum it's written GE has adopted the iphone and ipad over rim's Blackberry and how it "could" spin into more Mac sales ...
but ... how is this going to happen without a Mac Pro like machine?
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First, it is dubious how that automatically turns into more Mac sales. There are more Windows users with iPhones and iPads than Mac users. There is absolutely nothing incompatible with using an iPhone/iPad and having a Windows box.

If you think GE need's iCloud's picture roll synching .... you're smoking something.

There is no way a Fortune 500 company is going to widespread deploy Mac Pro to their average (or even above average) employees. It is not cost effective and is gross overkill for their workload needs.


I don't get it, it's been longer than long since an update yet the potential market for Mac Pro sales has to be growing not shrinking?
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Your assumption rest on a couple of errant factors. One, that folks who are currently on Mac Pros ( or Mac Pro like) machines will replace with Mac Pros. There is a significant number of users whose workloads have not gotten substantially larger ( still using Word processor , spreadsheet , browser, or even 2-3 generation old apps like Photoshop ,etc. )

Second, that there aren't going to be bailing to Windows.

Yes, there are folks with increasing workloads and need for newer, higher end software. But they are not everybody.
 
Companies like GE are definitely iMac companies, not Mac Pro companies.

Even though you do really need 12 cores and a few SSDs in a RAID to run Excel these days.
 
tekno said:
I'm surprised that the current uncertainty and lack of upgrade wouldn't make people seriously question upgrading.

Kind of a bit like buying a Saab right now.
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Not really. It is just asking for another 3 years on the platform to make use of all your extremely expensive platform dependent software. Then you start planning the exodus.
 
Absolutely ... can't wait. One more in a line that stretches back to a 1985 fat mac ... and includes the blue G3, gray G4, the G5 (that looks like the current MP's), and the first generation intel MP from 2006.

I'll order one as soon as the online Apple store is taking orders.
 
Count me in for one too, top of the line, 16 cores with 64Gb RAM. My MacPro 1,1 from 2006 is starting to look long in the tooth.

AAPL has made me tons of money during the last 12 months, so I'm willing to reciprocate. And if they ever decide to sell non-glare monitors, I'll be sure to buy at least a couple of those too.
 
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