No new Mac Pros on WWDC :(

[Kevin Wild]

I still wouldn't rule it out. There have been times like this before where they released an upgrade a day or two after the announcement. If it's strictly an upgraded processor and thunderbolt expansion, it may not have made the keynote.

LOVE the new MacBooks. As much as I love my MacbookAir, I may give up the additional pound for the power and Retina Display.

[Matt Ryan]

there is a new Mac Pro.... Go to the apple site.

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

[Harrison Diamond]

They barely upgraded them.... new processors, but that's it... still the same GPUs (no NVIDIA cards at all!), still only 2 X16 PCIe 2.0 slots (couldn't even go 3.0?!), NO USB3, NO THUNDERBOLT.

Forget it, Apple. I'll stick with my iMac and when it's time to get something more powerful, I'll have to bite the bullet and get a PC to be my editing and render workstation.

Too bad.

[Thomas Koch]

Cuda cores can't be hit over thunderbolt. Not yet at least.

[Max M.]

Embarassing update after 2 years waiting...

[Joel Arvidsson]

They barely upgraded them.... new processors, but that's it... still the same GPUs (no NVIDIA cards at all!), still only 2 X16 PCIe 2.0 slots (couldn't even go 3.0?!), NO USB3, NO THUNDERBOLT.

Forget it, Apple. I'll stick with my iMac and when it's time to get something more powerful, I'll have to bite the bullet and get a PC to be my editing and render workstation.

Too bad.

Ouch!

[Santiago Marti]

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?

The thing is, you can't. Fast multicore would be a dual xeon, better if they are eight cores each. Lots of ram would be at least 48GB upto 128GB or even 256GB on some mobos, PCIE 3.0, etc. So, you loose the workstation performance thing, and you end up with a modular thing with less features and raw power of a regular PC at a much higher cost.

[Jack Colquitt]

Firstly, sorry for my poor english, but I think anger has no frontiers !!

For me, the worst in all this mess is not the dead of the Mac pro….
ok, this is business thing….. I don't accept it, but I can understand this kind of thing….
but, as an adult, and a professional, I can't accept at all that someone, a professional supplier,
tell me "yeah man, I have a new item…. in fact a new item with a down-grade to a less chip… a f```king 2,4ghz !!! And you will pay it 200$ more !!!!"

Yes…. 200$ for 6 more gigas of RAM !!
This kind of speech is good for a young consumer of mobile device…. not a pro !!!
Who are we for you Apple ??!
Peanuts ??! Just.... wind ???!

Say to us, "it's over"…. and break with us…..
but don't take us for stupid fool !!!!

So… now….. once again, I'm a pro….
I have to go on the road again, and I have to finally use my loan
and buy the computer I have been wainting for nothing, since 3 years !!!
Now, what can I do ??

Where can I install my Smoke 2013 ??
Where can I use my Resolve ???!
All my Adobe stuff ???!

On a Windows PC ??
I was PC before, for decade…. and I don't want to come back….
don't fell comfortable on that….. waste more time trying to make it working, than working on my real work !!

On Linux ?
With pleasure !!!
But….. oh, shit….. where's photoshop ??!

And…. I don't want to lose all my professionnal apps….
I wait years for a "perfect" Autodesk Smoke…. a good grading apps….
and now that the best is here, there's no computer to handle it ??!!!

Wait few month for an new iMac ?
Yes….. a mac mini, with a big screen…… come on !!!
Read and compress 5K RED footage on real time ?
And without burn the computer in one night of render ??
And..... glossy screen ???????!!!!!!!!!!!

Or the Hackintosh ?
Can someone confirm that there is no more bug in an hack than in a real mac and I sign now !!

Well……… I'm lost….. and angry….. and sorry for all the exclamation mark !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Thor Melsted]

A two year wait and all we get is what amounts to a minor cpu and hard drive upgrade - exactly like last time?
Where's Thunderbolt? Where's USB3?
Come on, Apple. This is just sad.

[Jim Perry, Jr.]

Has any one seen the ProMAX ONE 16-core Tower?

http://barefeats.com/sandy01.html

I believe the barebones dual
Xeon E5-2687W (3.1ghz) is $6,500

If it takes another two years for apple to refresh the macPro
this maybe a route to go... of course that means switchng to PC :)

http://www.promax.com/s-154-promax-one-tech-specs.aspx