“Apple has announced its new Mac Pro professional desktop workstation, and it is 1/8th the volume of the old one,” Joel Santo Domingo writes for PC Magazine. “To get it so small, Apple had to remove one of the primary reasons to get a Mac Pro in the first place: There is no significant internal expansion space in the new 2013 Mac Pro.”
“Apple’s upcoming Mac Pro is an enigma. No, really, there’s a lot about the system we don’t yet know, including exactly which Xeon processors will be available, which dual AMD FirePro GPUs will be in the system, and the ultimate pricing of the Mac Pro,” Santo Domingo writes. “What we do know is that the system comes with replaceable PCIe flash storage as the main drive, four DIMM slots for 1,866MHz DDR3 ECC memory, and that everything is built around a massive heat sink with a single fan for cooling. The system comes with a HDMI port, four USB 3.0 ports, and six Thunderbolt 2 ports.”
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Santo Domingo writes, “Yes, you can connect USB 3.0 drives, Thunderbolt hard drives, and PCIe to Thunderbolt expansion boxes to the new Mac Pro. Expansion boxes like the ones from Sonnet and OWC let you pull the video input or graphics output card to your Thunderbolt Mac. They can also let you connect multiple eSATA drives to a Thunderbolt Mac if your company has standardized on eSATA drives. Displays aren’t a problem either: the system can support up to three 4K displays via Thunderbolt, but you can always connect a single HDMI display to the HDMI port and multiple DVI, VGA, or DisplayPort monitors using adapter cables. Functionally, external expansion can work just fine. External Expansion may work, but it is messy.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Who’s to say Apple or third parties won’t have stackable 6.6-inch diameter “expansion discs” that offer external drives, etc. that match and fit right underneath your Mac Pro and provide neat cord management solutions as well?
Think outside the box.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
Apple is clever, but it’s users are so credulous it’s sad… and never, NEVER admitting to this, because, well, they can’t see it. But apple doesn’t care. They’d prefer people just throw there computers away (or given them away) and get new macs. You’d think when you pay more than double the price of a PC, you’d get all the great features of one, including expandability. Or at least an option, or chance to add something when that components price falls… Thus giving the computer more value for a little longer.
The Pro was meant for those people who wanted to do serious video editing, art, music, etc work. However, I laugh at it because “apple creation”, isn’t one at all. People sit around and ooh and ah over the powerful new hardware, yet it’s simply a MID grade PC. Not a high end PC for over $2000, but a mid grade PC, using mid grade parts. That’s because apple first over charges it’s customers and then cheats them out of the best, “innovative” hardware around.
I know this because I once showed a friend of mine who bought a new mac for $1795, how my $700 i7 based PC could render the same basic video editing processes in less than 1/2 the time. He was sick, lol, but agreed and said it was “cool”, and realized his “mac”‘s hardware was really just a cheap pc.
We could talk all about the “flow”, “magic”, how “it just works” and all the other toddler type sentiments forever, but fact is, he just boots up, gets that mouse pointer and runs adobe photo shop, or some other program. Same thing happens on a PC running windows 7. Only faster and cheaper. Oh, there might be some really small things a mac user will brag about, but really, they are taking tiny little things and making a mountain out of it. And it’s not like mac defender isn’t out there, or people should never back up their beloved work to a back up drive no matter what the platform is.
So really, mac usage, along with the advertising etc, is little more than just a feeling. And that’s why apple uses hypnosis and does little to tell you about the machine they are selling. Instead, Jobs, at the time, believed in using the NIke sales strategy. Nike pulled ahead in the 80’s because they didn’t try to sell people on the sole of the shoe or the rubber, but instead they just put up a star like Jordin and using hypnosis got people to access the feelings of greatness that way. Then people starting buying Nike like crazy. Jobs even admits to doing this. The old videos are there if you look for them.
And it worked! Now here we are, with apple getting even more greedy by trying to sell a computer where an enthusiast is less likely to open it or try to get more life out of it. They were claiming it was because they wanted to make it lighter, thinner etc, but get real. How many true professionals need to save that small amount of space for an under powered, easy to over heat, cheapo mini tower? If it were me paying all those big bucks, I’d have a sh*t fit over this. THAT is why I use PC, and that’s also why some mac users hackintosh.. Because apple RIPS people off period. THAT is the real truth here. And it’s customers lie to themselves to justify their purchases.
But you can’t help iPeople, because of their way of thinking, they will take any logic you throw at them, twist it, and make it seem like a viable reality, when often it’s nothing more than delusional thinking. As far as I’m concerned a joke, just became a bigger joke. But in terms of sales, apple will likely win. And maybe that will keep spreading until the world all his over priced, little puny plastic, white pieces of junk that we throw in a drawer and buy new ones all the time. Kind of like a calculator or an iphone…. “It’s the future dude! THE FUTURE! – can you feel it dude?”, ah, hahaha.
… Actually right now I’m getting ready, after 3 years to make up a new PC. Not sure which cpu, but possibly 3770k i7, or maybe even a faster one. Either way, I’m laughing because this “Thunderbolt” thing is already out dated. Thunderbolt, LOL. Seriously apple? You’d think with a name like that, and the money spent, they’d give you the best hardware available. But they don’t. Another example and proof of this is that I got my first i7 based system nearly 2 solid years before apple announced i7 for their iMac, and raised the price from $1700 to $1999. My 2 year old system was still faster due to better components, and some small differences.
But what’s really funny is I paid only $700 for my PC. That means a mac lover could have had what apple was going to bring out 2 years earlier if he/she was alert… But most of them, aren’t. And some told me apple would never use “shitty pc i7”. . Instead they claimed they’d come out with something way better. But of course they didn’t. Now what would have happened if Apple came out with an imac with i7 first, then 2 years later the first windows pc got i7? Mac fanatics would have made fun right? Well why don’t they make fun of apple for doing basically the same thing, then claiming they are innovative while doing that at a higher price?
What’s sad is that while apple is gearing up for this release, I’m already onto something far newer, with a higher end SSD (for an OS that supports trim, and on time, thank you very much), better memory, more options in settings and an over all faster experience. The hilarious thing is I’ll pay less than 1/2, and possibly 1/3rd what someone pays for this new over rated mac pro, and yet again, serious production work will happen faster on my machine than on a mac pro. In fact I could buy two machines and have each doing a separate project for less than the dumb mac pro. But people must fight for what doesn’t make sense. It’s pure brain damage for sure…
(had to repost because site isn’t posting.. yet) And right now, after 3 years, I’m getting ready to make up a new PC. Not sure which exact cpu, but possibly 3770k i7, or maybe even a faster one. Either way, I’m laughing because this “Thunderbolt” thing is already out dated. Thunderbolt, LOL. Seriously apple? You’d think with a name like that, and the money spent, they’d give you the best hardware available. But they don’t. Another example and proof of this is that I got my first i7 based system nearly 2 solid years before apple announced i7 for their iMac, and raised the price from $1700 to $1999. My 2 year old system was still faster due to better components, and some small differences.
But what’s really funny is I paid only $700 for my PC. That means a mac lover could have had what apple was going to bring out 2 years earlier if he/she was alert… But most of them, aren’t. And some told me apple would never use “shitty pc i7”. . Instead they claimed they’d come out with something way better. But of course they didn’t. Now what would have happened if Apple came out with an imac with i7 first, then 2 years later the first windows pc got i7? Mac fanatics would have made fun right? Well why don’t they make fun of apple for doing basically the same thing, then claiming they are innovative while doing that at a higher price?
What’s sad is that while apple is gearing up for this release, I’m already onto something far newer, with a higher end SSD (for an OS that supports trim, and on time, thank you very much), better memory, more options in settings and an over all faster experience. The hilarious thing is I’ll pay less than 1/2, and possibly 1/3rd what someone pays for this new over rated mac pro, and yet again, serious production work will happen faster on my machine than on a mac pro. In fact I could buy two machines and have each doing a separate project for less than the dumb mac pro. But people must fight for what doesn’t make sense. It’s pure brain damage for sure…
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