Monday, June 10th 2013
Apple Unveils New Mac Pro
During the Worldwide Developer Convention (WWDC) this Monday, Apple presented its radically redesigned Mac Pro which represents a complete and long overdue departure from the shapes, sizes and general design language of its workstations. Personally I can not decide which is the most striking visual aspect of the new Mac Pro, the truly tiny size of this multi-GPU powerhouse, or its curiously cylindrical shape. Alas, my true curiosity lies with the cooling solutions employed by the designers to address the inevitable heat issues associated with densely packing such potent hardware. The monolithic appearance of the Mac Pro is interrupted only by a cutout in the cover that allows access to the back panel, where the entire I/O interface is located. Apart from the usual suspects (USB, RJ45, etc), the user is presented with no less than six Thunderbolt 2 ports, which some might find problematic considering they constitute the entire expansion potential of the new Mac Pro.The Mac Pro will be launched in Q3 and will make use of the new 12 core Ivy Bridge-EP processors launching in Q3 as well. Two AMD workstation GPUs will be accompanying the Ivy Bridge Xeon E5 processor. Storage will be Flash based and will employ the PCIe bus, doing away with the usual storage bottlenecks. The device comes with 4K display support and also Bluetooth 4.0 and Wi-Fi 802.11ac connectivity. Pricing for the new workstation was not mentioned, however it was pointed out that it will be built in the US.
Source:
The Verge
101 Comments on Apple Unveils New Mac Pro
I'm actually curious to see how the cooling module performs :toast: Can't wait, let's hope this means more cores for HEDT too. Six cores has been a stale number for too much.
And if it makes coffee too, I'm putting my money down right away.
Still would not buy one lol, to me it's just more money spent to do the same thing.
Just needs some wheels.
And I'll probably buy one, because it's made in the US.
1997 just called. It was Apple's broken self on the line. They would like to remind Apple about the last time they didn't compete with their business-friendly brethren.
2005 just called. It was Apple whom just had an epiphany. They discovered using business-friendly parts (namely, the change to Intel x86) was a boon for sales. Past Apple would just like to remind present Apple of that.
I just called and I want to fax you an image:
I'm assuming it has an external power supply (brick) too.
It uses an internal PSU. Look at that 3-pin AC receptacle.
Oh, was that a serious question? I thought there was a punch line.