No new Mac Pros on WWDC :(

[Manuel Wenger]

Love the new MacBook Pro with Retina Display, but a little disappointed that there was no word about new MacPros :(

Manuel

[Thomas Koch]

AAAARRRRRRGGGGGGG!!!!!!! Why Apple? Why?

[Ben Rojas]

no MacPro, OK, I'll deal w/it but at least give us a road map to what, aside from the MacBook Pro, will be "pro" at Apple. An iMac Workstation a-la HP's Z1 would have been a welcome announcement.

[Scott Crawley]

According to the http://www.macrumorslive.com/ transcript they referred to the MacBook Pro as the "new flagship line". That sounds like a declaration that the tower's days are nearing the end. Did anyone who was there get that same sense?

[Gabriele Turchi]

as always , this is show that rumors about apple does not count at all...

[Terry VerHaar]

OK - sincere question here - if I can get a fast, multi-core MacBook Pro (or iMac, I suppose) with lots of fast RAM, Thunderbolt plus fast external drives of my choice (RAID whatever), an expansion chassis for various cards, a large, hi rez external display - all connected via Thunderbolt, what am I missing as compared to a Mac Pro?

[Brian Merlen]

http://store.apple.com/us/browse/hom...family/mac_pro

[Scott Crawley]

OK - sincere question here - if I can get a fast, multi-core MacBook Pro (or iMac, I suppose) with lots of fast RAM, Thunderbolt plus fast external drives of my choice (RAID whatever), an expansion chassis for various cards, a large, hi rez external display - all connected via Thunderbolt, what am I missing as compared to a Mac Pro?

Well, Red Rocket is only 80% fast through thunderbolt compared to PCI... There is one thing. 20% speed loss for expansions. Not much else comes to mind though.

[Jeremy Neish]

There is a new Mac Pro, but no thunderbolt and only USB 2. So based on my quick look, I think it's only a minor CPU upgrade.

[Ben Rojas]

OK - sincere question here - if I can get a fast, multi-core MacBook Pro (or iMac, I suppose) with lots of fast RAM, Thunderbolt plus fast external drives of my choice (RAID whatever), an expansion chassis for various cards, a large, hi rez external display - all connected via Thunderbolt, what am I missing as compared to a Mac Pro?

I asked that same question, but more so w/an iMac rather than MacBook Pro. I spent a lot of time this past NAB trying to figure out what I would do should Apple nix the MP. As powerful as an iMac or MBP is/are these days, the question revolves around how powerful one can make either sys w/external thunderbolt expansion. Currently I run an NVidia Quadro 4800, RR and AJA Kona 3 in my MP. My Smoke on Mac runs pretty damn good w/them so naturally I'd like to keep the trio running in a news system. Sonnet did not have a 3 card Thunderbolt solution. Magma has a 3 card chassis so I guess I'll start my exploration there. The other road block - memory. HP's Z800 maxes out at 192Gb. so a new MP would have likely been right up there. With were we're headed, 16GB on an iMac just isn't going to cut it... Literally ;O)