The Mac Pro Lives On

#1

http://daringfireball.net/2017/04/the_mac_pro_lives

It looks like Apple has finally bit into some humble pie and have tacitly acknowledged that the current Mac Pros are inadequate for the needs of some of their users. So now, they are now redesigning the Mac Pro but this time, with modularity in mind. No more Apple trying to preempt the pro desktop market and expecting the rest of the industry to follow its lead like it was 1995.

What we don’t know yet is the time frame. Not this year for certain - but the current line up will get some minor speed boosts.

But wait, there’s one more thing! They’re even designing new displays to go with the new Pros.

Although I suspect whatever they come up with, it’s already too late as the price vs performance ratio will not equal that of PC line ups. Still, I’m eager to see how much Apple has learned from the past and, if nothing else, whether or not the new redesigned systems will still resemble that of a trash can.

#2

A lot of research and development goes into these machines so to say they are garbage is wrong they are a quality product but too expensive for most ordinary people

#3

The current Mac Pro is garbage. Extensively researched and developed garbage. Expensive garbage. Slow garbage.

#4

Nobody called them garbage, he said it resembles a trash can, which it does. Everybody I work with calls it a trash can, ash tray or funeral urn. Though all three names are somewhat suitable.

To be frank, the mac pro was a poor design the day it was released. A beautifully engineered poor design. A fundamental basic requirement of a pro computer is that it can be upgraded, maintained, fixed or adjusted to suit the user. The old cheese grater mac pro did this; you could swap out a faster cpu, gpu, more harddrives, more ram, specialist cards, optical drives… it had a usb port on the front! the mear fact that you can have an old mac faster than the new trashcan says everything.

Every computer is a compromise, but the small size of the trashcan just lead to expensive purchase costs, less power and fewer upgrades; acceptable compromises to make on a laptop or set top box under a tv, but not ok for pro use.