MAC PRO not on discount

[Carl Dieker]

Any reason why the MAC PRO is not on discount on Black Friday? I hope it is not because the rumours are true, being that Mac Pro is on its way to be discountued.

/Calle

[Trevor Meeks]

You can buy one using the academic discount if you're really wanting to save money on it... just select "education store" on store.apple.com and select a college, for instance, the one you went to... they do not verify that you are enrolled in school.

Great way to save $$ on your purchases.... not that I'd know or or anything though

[Carl Dieker]

Thanks, my post was a little paranoid. It wasn't about money. :)

[Martin Widerberg]

Well, we can hope for a new form factor with optical thunderbolt, so you can grow after pleasure, but I doubt it.
Would be nice with a stackable solution like Red Station.
Wan't more graphic cards? Just another box on top:)

Nightmare scenario is that they build something without slots and optical thunderbolt. I always liked the idea of an integrated software/hardware solution. I really don't wan't to switch operating system.

[Matt Gottshalk]

You will not see another new Mac Pro in its current form.

[Jim McKinney]

I'm on the way to discontinuing Mac myself.

[Matt Gottshalk]

Same here.

[Kegan Sant]

Why do you say that Matt? A hunch or some kind of inside info?

Kegan

[Alexander Ibrahim]

Why do you say that Matt? A hunch or some kind of inside info?

Kegan

Its a guess.

It's wrong.

There will be at least one more Mac Pro.

The internal debate at Apple is whether or not it will be a "radically new" design (which they have contemplated and prototyped) or if it will be an update to Sandy Bridge/Ivy Bridge Xeon's with a Thunderbolt enabled video card.

Both products are under development.

That is inside information.

They are also developing a "desktop Mac." Think iMac type specifications in a desktop enclosure with the ability to take 2-3 PCIe cards.

The idea is that they are going to drop the single processor Mac Pro and instead sell single processor desktops in a different category from their workstations. In theory that frees them up to make the workstations even more "exotic."

Don't hold your breathe though.

That concept has been under constant development since the shift to Intel.

Apple won't make a "cheap" computer ... they insist on quality and innovation. They believe they'd be incapable of innovating that space effectively, and without innovation they believe there is no reason for Apple to compete in that market segment.

(Hence Thunderbolt on iMacs which a different inside source pitched at me like this: "Why do you want to have internal expansion? Why not external connectors?" I answered, "Bandwidth. You can't push around uncompressed 4k+ motion imaging data on any external cabling - even optical. The next day, "LightPeak" was announced.)

Here is what I want: A standard desktop, and a luggable mobile workstation. Magsafe connectors on both ... Thunderbolt.

Most importantly, I want a Thunderbolt graphics cards. If I can get a drop in replacement PCIe 2.0 x16 card with a current Nvidia GPU and 3 Thunderbolt ports ... I'll be happy riding my current Mac Pro for another 2-3 years.

I'd rather get some nice PCIe 3 Mac Pros though, and some delicious quad processor Mac Pros.

[Tom.Wong]

pack in the most powerful processors intel has to offer
give us plent of TB ports, u can even drop fw 800, i can buy adapters for TB.
more than 4 pci e slots, and more than 40 lanes, please.

a desktop version, and a rackmount version.

I don't think anybody would care if they dropped all their lowest end towers and just kept on chuggin with the most hardcore desktop line, while offering up cheaper more elegant solutions to the consumer. TB is proof they are committed to the professional and innovating. it's one of the most innovative things I've seen in a computer system let alone a laptop and imac. so if they can commit and just at least come out with one line of pro, high end, bleeding edge system they can concentrate the rest their energy on phones and tablets... we just need that one thing...