Mac Pro with 3.7 GHz quad-core Xeon Launches Tomorrow
Just in time for the holidays.
Apple first introduced us to the Mac Pro back in June. Now, six months later, the Cupertino-based company is getting ready to release its brand new desktop. Set for availability tomorrow, the new Mac Pro features a unique cylindrical design and will cost just shy of $3,000 when it goes on sale tomorrow, December 19.
The Mac Pro's glossy, cylindrical design is likely what most will notice first. It's a huge departure from anything Apple has done before and features a 'thermal core' cooling solution in the center. The thermal core is a center component made of a three-sided heatsink, with each side cooling the entire length of each PCB. A single large fan pulls the hot air up and out.
Assembled in the United States, the Mac Pro features a 3.7 GHz quad-core Xeon from Intel. This is working alongside two AMD FirePro D300 GPUs, 12 GB of 1866 MHz DDR3 RAM, 256 GB of PCIe flash storage (read/write speeds of 1.2 GBps/1 GBps) and up to six Thunderbolt 2 ports. Customers can configure their Mac Pro with as much as 64 GB of RAM and 1 TB of flash storage, so while pricing starts at $2,999, you can expect that baseline price to rise if you make changes to the specs.
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It was the functional design of the iPod and iPhone that brought back apple, not this artsy fartsy crap.
The specs on this are really state of the art, so it will be interesting to see how it plays out in the real world.
There is a lot of competition in the workstation market and technology doesn't stand still, I hope they are working on the improved model now.
Might be interesting if they would ever consider an open version.
It was the functional design of the iPod and iPhone that brought back apple, not this artsy fartsy crap.
Alas, with the given price, I am not entirely sure who their target market is. Most PD groups that I have worked with, small and large, are rocking "ugly" Dell workstation desktops. For the base price of one of these Mac Pro's, you could get two closely spec'ed ATX towers built. Sure, they would take up 4x the space (or more), but these generally live under the desk anyway.
You sound uneducated or you actually don't know, dude. Most music recording industry, movie, graphic animation and such played on iPod and iPhone and other media players..are made using Mac software and computers.
D300 and D700 are both custom parts that are essentially scaled down versions of current FirePro cards. A similar computer to the starting model of this would be around 2500 assuming you hit all points. The unusually high PC price is because we're talking workstation and server class parts here, not your standard off the shelf i7 and geforce card.
Also, yes, a gaming card would outperform a workstation card in gaming, but considering this is a workstation computer meant for things like audio/video production and CAD, I'm not sure gaming performance is a relevant benchmark.
You sound uneducated or you actually don't know, dude. Most music recording industry, movie, graphic animation and such played on iPod and iPhone and other media players..are made using Mac software and computers.
He was referring to system design, not software design. Whether or not people use Macs in making stuff is completely irrelevant to what he said. On the flip side, I don't completely agree with him. Apple learned the marketing game early and played it incredibly well. Don't forget, the first iPhone didn't even release with third party app support. Compared to palm, Blackberry, and Windows mobile, it was a joke in regards to functionality. But it was pretty and intuitive, and Apple played that up as much as possible.
Hopefully, the cylinder doesn't crack with constant heating and cooling cycles. I'm not looking up what materials are actually used.
while these mac pros may be reliable, they are only functionally efficient if you take into account their small foot-print, and hardly cost efficient...
People should design stuff to improve the world. Sadly, this is the last of Apple's aims. Its an embarrassment to American ingenuity. A total disgrace to the nation. Happily there are other companies that have their priorities on a much higher plain where they aim to do good first, then wait for the profits. And if they do well the profits will come. As they should. Nobody needs a $20,000,000 house. Yet millions strive for outlandishly priced goods just to look good to those around them. Sadly they are just as discontented with their lives as before. Actually, much more so because of all the worry relating to losing their new found wealth.
Good for you. The lemmings will most likely be movie studios, post production houses, music industry types, graphics designers, engineers, mapping services, you know, the people that this computer is (gasp!) aimed at.
Go back to Battlefield 4.
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Good for you. The lemmings will most likely be movie studios, post production houses, music industry types, graphics designers, engineers, mapping services, you know, the people that this computer is (gasp!) aimed at.
Go back to Battlefield 4.
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My point being they are paying far more than they should just to have the little Apple logo.
BTW, I don't play Battlefield 4. I'm a software engineer, not a gamer so I know a thing or two about relying on your computer to do actual work.