Apple's New Mac Pro to Ship in December at $2,999
Apple's cylindrical desktop now has a price and a release timeframe.
Back in June, Apple offered us a quick look at a new breed of Mac Pro. Though the company was more than happy to talk about the computer's innovative design, we didn't get a whole lot of information regarding the guts of the machine. At its event today, Apple went into a lot more detail about what's under the hood on the new Mac Pro.
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 1866MHz 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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The Mac Pro's glossy, cylindrical design is drastically different than anything Apple has done before. Apple's marketing chief Phillip Schiller called the center of the Mac Pro's design a "thermal core" back in June. The cooling solution is certainly innovative, featuring a center piece 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.
Apple is promising a December ship date, though the company didn't specify whether the Mac Pro would enjoy a global rollout.
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I hear there are people who pay for large black things. I have even seen vids of women enjoying them.
You may not want to pay a premium of $1,000 but its a cylinder, so it totally could go for more.
Cylinders, they are the new cubes...
Please explain your math? Using the exact same parts. Xeons and everything, next tell me how much it cost to support this $1200 machine for one year, keep in mind that you also need to include the cost of software and lastly, find a workstation class board that has 6 thunderbolt 2 ports on it and provide that as well.
I think you will find that what you just mentioned does not exist and a comparable machine from another manufacturer costs fairly close to this machine if not more.
Also, Workstation class machine, not a gaming machine. The differences is productivity + making money vs wasting time + loosing money.
It does look like a vacuum cleaner doesn't it?
The 2 CPU's and GPU's alone cost over $1200.
Sweet merciful lord, I hope not. A quick check of scan computers tells me that those cards have a maximum TDP of 150W each. Combined with that CPU (which Tom's review tells me draws 125W at a high load), that's a single 12cm-ish fan trying to dissipate almost 500W of heat from one, rather large and inefficient heatsink. If anyone tries using that power CPU-GPU combination to its full potential, their new toy is going to turn into a hairdryer/paintstripper combo.
Of course, this probably won't be too much of a problem, since most macs are used as $2000 facebook machines, but ho well....
Apple, as usual, is marketing high-end hardware that is truly only suitable for business solutions, to mainstream consumers. The way they package it makes it unusable for businesses (imagine a room full of 1000 of these things) and the hardware included is pointless for the vast majority of individual users. It's a vanity item, nothing more.
http://www.contitech.cn/pages/presse/img/20130508_ct_bus_trucks_components_1b.jpg
It's so beautiful!
http://www.contitech.cn/pages/presse/img/20130508_ct_bus_trucks_components_1b.jpg
It's so beautiful!
Now that's just spooky....
It does look like a vacuum cleaner doesn't it?
The main function of a vacuum cleaner is to... implying...
and 2x more expensive.
pass.