“While HP’s name has been coming up in all the media concerning GOP presidential hopeful, Carly Fiorina, former HP CEO, the famed Silicon Valley tech company has come out swing in a bold attack on Apple’s professional Mac market—directly targeting the controversial Mac Pro introduced in 2013,” Anthony Frausto-Robledo writes for Architosh.
“Without mentioning any kind of market data or any official information of any kind, HP comes out with bold assertion that — ‘the days of Mac Pro being the default tool for creative professionals are coming to an end,'” Frausto-Robledo writes. “So reads these striking words in an HP marketing advert sent to Architosh’s attention. In blue type face the advert, which was sent via marketing email and is replicated on the website directly, continues… ‘See why the pros are moving from Mac to Z’ …as in HP’s Z-line workstations, which include all-in-one designs very competitive to Apple’s popular iMacs.”
“Apple’s Mac Pro was apparently the missing child left out of the Mac family portrait on Apple’s August-timed update to its key Mac product page. Meanwhile, key rumor sites have been pondering when exactly Apple would update the new Mac Pro itself, with conjectures of a WWDC 2015 time-frame that flew past,” Frausto-Robledo writes. “At Apple’s recent September Event, with Apple’s announcement of the new iPad Pro — a product also aimed at professional creatives as well as Apple’s enterprise aspirations—the Mac Pro failed to see any update.”
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MacDailyNews Take: A little birdy tells us that professional Mac users in the market for a new Mac Pro are going to be very happy early next year.
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