Apple confirmed to Macworld that the following email message is from Apple CEO Tim Cook:
Franz,
Thanks for your email. Our Pro customers like you are really important to us. Although we didn’t have a chance to talk about a new Mac Pro at today’s event, don’t worry as we’re working on something really great for later next year. We also updated the current model today.
We’ve been continuing to update Final Cut Pro X with revolutionary pro features like industry leading multi-cam support and we just updated Aperture with incredible new image adjustment features.
We also announced a MacBook Pro with a Retina Display that is a great solution for many pros.
Tim
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: And, just like that, Tim plops the Mac Pro market into a vat of liquid Nitrogen. Buh-bye, see you for the great thaw “later next year.”
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Nearly everyone is screaming for Thunderbolt on their Mac Pro. Why? Displays. Fair enough. But consider the bandwidth and number of TB ports. Each TB port is a 10gbps two-lane full-duplex PCI Express conduit, the equivalent of a 3-lane PCIe 3.0 slot, or 4-lane PCIe 2.0 or 8-lane PCIe 1.0.
I want to see full utilization of all 80 lanes on the two 8-core CPUs, as bridgeless/non-switched PCIe 3.0 slots: 2 @ 16-lane double-height slots for GPUs (with CrossFire support), and 3x single-height slots with 1 @ 8-lanes, 2 @ 4-lanes, minimum!
Add a chip on the motherboard for hardware RAID 0,1,5,6,etc… controlling 8 ports of SAS 3.0/SATA III, and include mounting for 8x 2.5″ drives which can fit 3.5″ drives in the space of each two, plus 4 more ports for 2 optical drives and two eSATA III outside the case, and/or an external SAS 4x port. Design it fast enough to saturate every lane, with headroom.
My “old” Mac Pro Octo will still run for another year, as planed.
I’ll be happy, when, for the next upgrade, there will be a brand new one around!
Come on Apple, go ahead and surprise me nicely!
I’m a pro user, and apart from a wonderful 8 core intel Xeon Mac with raid running SL server, all the client Macs are maxed out PPC G5s, heck, there’s still a couple pf G4s running as print servers somewhere.
Now this is a testament to:
a) the hardware quality is outstanding – the pro macs are just solid bricks that run & run.
b) I’d rather give up my profession and shovel crap for a living than use Windows
c) the main reason why Apple don’t concentrate on refreshing the hardware every 6 months like the laptops – I’m happy to refresh every 18-24 months, even longer if I can.
Now MDN is right when they say that no-one will buy a MacPro now, but Apple can afford it, and any pro -users that will jump to Windows just to spite them weren’t all that bothered with the Mac anyway – let them go.
“…Although we didn’t have a chance to talk about a new Mac Pro at today’s event…”
Didn’t have a chance???
You had all day, and just reading out something like this email wouldn’t have taken longer than 30 seconds.
You could have, if you wanted to, so lets cut the bull.
You didn’t want to. Period.
Fine, go right on sailing along in your little pink cloud…
Well said. Tim Cook just insulted the crap out of Pro users with such an outright lie. Steve Jobs would never lie. Tim Cook does!
Apple completely dropped the ball on this. I hope this isn’t a sign of things to come
Running an Early 2009 Mac Pro and the “update” isn’t worth the money. To put that in perspective, early 2009 was when Obama entered office. Late 2013 will be almost a year after the next election.
Or another way to put the time frame in perspective, an AppleCare plan is 3 years. Now, after I had some crises with my PowerBook G4 (a long time ago, I know) I’ve come to value having my AppleCare plan in place. However, as we all know, AppleCare is not renewable. If you want a new AppleCare plan after your current plan expires, you have to buy a new computer. But to buy a whole new MacPro without those incremental upgrades hardly seems worth it.
Trust us, Apple. Even though the mobile market is turning out to be your bread and butter, even just doing the basic upgrades to the MacPro to provide substantial improvements in performance after that three year period will give you repeat business, and will make it worth your money.
Or you could just start allowing people to renew their AppleCare subscriptions after 3 years, and then you have (almost) free money right there. 😉
The complainers are mostly full of shit fanboys. My Mac Pro is almost two years old. It will not suddenly stop working. It renders video just fine and I make all deadlines. It accepts my web coding just fine. I have no need at present for USB 3. I have all the external storage options I need. We have no thunderbolt peripherals.
The incremental upgrade helps to keep buyers who need new hardware current with processor technology. Next years is next year. I may live in the future, but I work in the present.
“The incremental upgrade helps to keep buyers who need new hardware current with processor technology”
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The two CPU options were chips released 2 and 3 years ago. The graphics card options were released 3 years ago.
If that’s your idea of “current” you must you must’ve been running on PC workstations before you switched to Mac two years ago. You forget that many deployed Mac Pros are 3, 4, 5 years old or more and were slated for replacement.
You do have solid upgrade options to the 2010 Mac Pro, that will carry us well past the wait for the new model:
• CPU upgrades to 3.46GHz 12-core
• 128GB memory w/ 16GB modules
• You can replace both optical drives with hard drives for drives in 6 bays
• You can get incredbly fast speeds by installing SSDs into the PCIe slots, and they are bootable
• A solid alternative to Thunderbolt – MiniSAS – it works today