Their new upgrade plan is inspired by what Red did with Red One to Epic. With one minor difference. With Apple, you pay them the money and they let you keep your old machine. That's it! None of this messing about waiting for couriers...
Thread: There IS a new Mac Pro
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06-11-2012, 03:42 PM
Their new upgrade plan is inspired by what Red did with Red One to Epic. With one minor difference. With Apple, you pay them the money and they let you keep your old machine. That's it! None of this messing about waiting for couriers...
06-11-2012, 03:44 PM
I believe we were saying some very similar things 18 months ago with the last Mac Pro "update"...Originally Posted by Bing Bailey
06-11-2012, 03:54 PM
I truly think Bing is right, and Apple is stuck between a rock and a hard place. They couldn't win, they delay for Ivy and we complain, they rerelease old tech and we complain too...
The 12core is cheaper today then the refurb one was yesterday, that is cool...
Not sure why they kept the 4 core around, I would of thought they would go with at least 6 or 8 cores for the baseline model....
06-11-2012, 08:02 PM
This is a joke. Sooo weak Apple.
06-11-2012, 08:19 PM
actually this is a joke...."finally we get 3k for 3k (retina display)" wu hahahaha
06-11-2012, 08:35 PM
Something you don't seem to understand at all, is that successful companies like Apple - and Red even much more so - actually listen to their consumers.
If you want things to change, you have to make the effort to "whine and complain" - and then you and everyone else gets something better suited to their needs if enough people voice their opinions. This feedback is WELCOMED by most companies. Many even pay for it.
If everyone just "keeps their heads down like good working men" "let the boss man decide what he wants to do" or whatever it is you seem to feel rugged manly men should be doing instead, progress in all areas would be much slower.
That said ror a 12 core PC with this speed, you would pay at least $3500 maybe more - and it wouldn't have self-correcting heat sinked Ram - so I don't get what the problem is. It's totally competitive.
06-11-2012, 08:37 PM
Exactly.
That's why we got FCX.
Oh, wait.....
06-11-2012, 08:44 PM
http://www.macrumors.com/2012/06/11/...bably-in-2013/
Look at the updated part with the costumer email exchange. While i hate this sort of communication and "hints" from Apple, this is as close as it gets to a confirmation of a redesign next year and support for the Pro market. Of course, we do need to know if this email exchange is true or bogus.
I do think, however, the new Macbook Pro Retina is a very good Pro machine (so good i just ordered one, in fact, with maxed ram and cpu), and feel confident of Apple keeping its support on the Pro market. The new MacbookPro was a very bold bet from Apple: if there's one machine that represents what Apple is in philosophy, its this one: almost everything is proprietary inside, but this permits this unique design that will be very difficult to copy from competitors, while keeping the stability and performance we all love. Also liked the way they marketed the machine, with complete focus to the pro market. Well done on the 15".
I switched from FCP to Adobe, I'm not a blind "fan" of Apple, but their computers and OS are still top notch and i don't see a reason to switch platforms yet. I have a 2008 Macpro 3.1 with a Rocket card, will probably upgrade the internal raid to SSD's and add some more ram in the upcoming months. The Quadro 4000 for mac is working great, and seeing Nvidia working again with Apple on the laptops is great news for us. I can understand the disappointment from fellow Pros for the lacklustre "update" (I was one of the disappointed ones) but with this "confirmation" in Macrumors I feel confident that the next update will be really significant. The company i work on just couldn't hold on for next year, though, so today they just placed an order to the top of the line "new" Macpro. Its a small bump but still an improvement. The sad part is that I'll have to be working with this "relic" for at least the next 4 years (if I'm still around). This will mean that I will be needing to do lots of work on my personal, next year's model...
06-11-2012, 08:58 PM
Simply put, a new Mac Pro will not make stockholders that much happier.
Apple is close to selling a total of 100 million ipads by the end of this year.
I mean, 100 million ipads? That's more than $50 billion dollars in just ipads.
And I think close to 200 million iphones. Enough to make your head spin.
Unless we buy 5-10 million units of Mac Pro, maybe it's just not that essential to them.
What do I know. Just random B.S. :)
06-11-2012, 09:06 PM
I think Apple should actually tell their professionals that they still care about them... I mean actually say it instead of letting journalists pass on news like this. I can pretty much guarantee that Pogue ran that post past apple first before he posted it.. so why doesn't apple just say it?
instead Apple silently kills the professional's workhorse , the 17" Macbook pro, and then quietly slaps on a stale slice of cheese onto the aging Mac Pro Tower.
The mighty house of Apple was built on the backs of professional over the last 20 years so I think they deserve it.
So Apple... just get up and just say it.. Say you care. Say you love us Misfits.. the Rebels.. the Editors.. the Creatives.. the Dreamers.. the Crazy ones. Just say it.
The 15" is a great start.. but for most professionals it is a secondary piece of kit.
Apple, remember this?
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