Apple announces new Mac Pro, ends cylindrical design
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https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-announces-new-mac-pro/
Apple has announced a new version of the Mac Pro — its flagship desktop computer which had not been significantly updated since 2013. Apart from a minor spec bump in 2017, the
company had for six years neglected its high-end desktop PC — a period during which Windows-based competitors leveraged new processors, graphics cards and case designs to make
inroads in a premium market niche that it previously dominated absolutely.
In 2017, Apple's Phil Schiller said that a new Mac Pro would be "by definition, a modular system." Ostensibly, this would mean that its components could be more easily swapped in and
out by users. That's a quality at odds with most modern Apple devices, which are designed to be upgraded rather than easily modified (or repaired). The new model marks a return to the
company's previous "cheese grater" design, abandons the "trash can" aesthetic of the 2013 Mac Pro, in favor of a more customizable and traditional tower case.
Here's what we know about the new Mac Pro:
-Up to 28-core Intel Xeon with 300 watts of power
-Up to 1.5TB of system memory
-New Radeon Pro Vega II
-Two Thunderbolt 3 ports
-Two USB-A ports
-3.5mm audio minijack
-PCIe, DisplayPort and power
-x16 PCIe connector
-Two built-in 10GB Ethernet ports
-MPX module (can support two of them)
-Afterburner movie-editing graphics card: can process 6 billion pixels per second, can playback 3 streams of 8K RAW
$11000 for the monitor and base unit
haha what a story, tim apple
Absolutely vile.
maybe in ten years
6000 dollars for the fucking base model? You're off your god damn rocker, apple. Jfc.
Apple knows how to make weird designs. First they made a computer in a trashcan. Now they made a computer inside of a heatsink.
that ain't new. See the PowerMac G5.
Did some searching around, that "MPX module" is basically "PCIe, with power distribution on the edge connector, and also proprietary to Apple and probably overpriced as fuck". So while it's technically upgradable, you can only upgrade within Apple's ecosystem, and the second they decide to drop MPX for something else, you're fucked. I'm not sure yet whether that's only for the video cards or for all the other addon cards they're talking about.
Am I wrong or could the same specs on the $6000 model be made for like ~$800? I get the whole "make a profit" deal Apple has going on, but I think we're stretching a little as far as markup goes lmao.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D8KCRT4UIAA3ASe.jpg
A proprietary PCIe Slot.
Leave it to apple to make sure you don't put anything else in there.
Also 6k for an 8core with tiny 32GB RAM
It looks like a fucking cheese grater.
Do you think Apple would be caught dead with a gross PCIe power cable flapping around in the breeze?
Nah. This looks like shit compared to G5 and doesn't have any resemblance except for handles being a part of the design.
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They certainly prefer to have ugly unpopulated PCB instead of that.
At least they've refrained from sticking a plastic gun on their motherboard.
For reference if people are wondering, the base model is:
An 8 core xeon
32GB of (ECC?) memory
A Radeon Pro 580X
A 256GB SSD
And while the motherboard is likely more costly due to the nature of supporting all the features (for all the extra expand-ability), and the SSD a high quality one, that seems very very steep.
oh my god its hideous
The maximum power you can get out of these things -- linking four Vega II GPUs together, with a 28-core Xeon -- is extremely impressive, especially considering how relatively easy it is to set up.
The pricing is absolutely ludicrous, though.
Oh wow that's really expensive but I bet this machine is pretty pow...
5,999 entry-level configuration features an 8-core Xeon processor, 32GB
of RAM, a Radeon Pro 580X graphics card and a 256GB SSD, and will start
shipping in the fall.
Oh my fucking god.
https://images-ext-1.discordapp.net/external/Z4PYAoUv6OmMRcCF7EkATFEFTCZ4IZ0MMh2gt6pmEFA/https/i.imgur.com/iMVF0UQ.png
are they out of their fucking mind
also the new vega looks nice, if they can make infinity fabric work on GPUs they might just catch up to nvidia, assuming they make multi gpu as seamless as multi cpu is with ryzens!!!
1,000 nits is genuinely impressive but my God, that's ugly.
I swear, it's like Apple wants to price themselves out of the PC market.
That’s the reference monitor they were matching/exceeding, not their actual monitor
fucking 256 gb of storage
So it's pretty much designed to become obsolete but a surprise
So they intentionally made the included monitor stand suck so they can sell a $1000 one?
Nice
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