Did APPLE forget APRIL FOOLS?! Mac Pros?

[Will Keir]

APPLE could have at least said "New Mac Pro's available" on April 1st. Not even a tease, I'm starting to miss those old elephant towers.

What's the word APPLE?

[Matt Gottshalk]

They are concentrating on selling 5 billion iphone 5's, rather than a mere 100,000 Mac Pro Towers.

Screw 'em, I built a custom PC and am moving on.

[Mark Toia]

In feeling the same way... Screw em.

[jimhare]

Screw that, I'll wait for the new Mac Pro. If there isn't one, then and only then will I consider other options! Will be a sad day when I'm forced out of the platform.

[James Drake]

The GTX 580 works practically out of the box in OS X 10.7
A subliminal message?

[Vico Martin]

In Jeff We Trust. April or end summer.

don´t lose faith

[Frederick Giles]

I am very certain that that there is a new Mac Pro tower coming out in the next few months. Quite a few of the updates to FCP X point to a commitment to the mac pro platform.

[Danny Murray]

Hackintosh anyone? if you don't know what that is go visit Tonymacx86.com and you might not have to depend so much on when Apple MIGHT want to upgrade the Mac Pro!!

[Scott Crawley]

Screw that, I'll wait for the new Mac Pro. If there isn't one, then and only then will I consider other options! Will be a sad day when I'm forced out of the platform.

I'm with Jim, and I will wait until April's end to make any hard decision.

[Bruce Allen]

I am very certain that that there is a new Mac Pro tower coming out in the next few months. Quite a few of the updates to FCP X point to a commitment to the mac pro platform.

Well, a lot of FCP X's processing runs the same on an iMac as it does on a Mac Pro. I tested. They claim it's very well multithreaded but it's not particularly.

That said, yes I do think that Mac Pros are coming.

And as long as they remain pretty much the same price as the HP and DELL systems... and you can run Bootcamp on them, why not buy one? It's a PC workstation with the bonus of being able to run OS X without hassles.

Well, the main issue will be gfx cards, I guess... big question is when the ultra-powerful nVidia cards come out toward the end of this year / early next year (not these current new GTX 680 ones - they're for gaming, not compute)... if there's no Mac driver it'll suck.

So, yeah... I'm probably not going to buy a Mac Pro until the GTX 685 / new Quadro series is out AND there is a Mac driver.

Bruce Allen
www.boacinema.com