"The Mac Pro Lives"

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#82

That’s quite a machine. I’m impressed, it basically takes on board all the feedback from professional users and addresses it in one release - 12 memory slots, 28-core processor, 8x PCIe expansion slots, a custom MPX expansion bus, Apple Afterburner FPGA video accelerator and a cooling system that actually does something.

Wouldn’t be interested myself, but I’ll certainly be interested to hear the feedback from the studios and professional customers that have waited for something like this for so long.

That’s an expensive display, even relative to some other professional monitors. Perhaps justifiable for some specialist applications though. (Hollywood, I’m thinking.) Also I hear the audience wasn’t impressed with the stand being sold separately. Haven’t watched the keynote myself to check.

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#83

Wow.

I’ve no idea how it compares to say a high end PC, but the specs sound f’ing impressive in comparison to any other Mac.

The appearance is - I dare say - irrelevant but cute. :slight_smile: Cheese grater Mk II.

As for price… no AU announced? I’ll start the guessing at $9,500.

#84

I need to watch the Keynote when it goes live, but based on the update to the Apple website, this is the only mac I would be interested in purchasing any time in the foreseeable future. Unfortunately, probably NOT any time in anything remotely resembling an immediate future.

Not interested in those modules either, for the same reason. Very interested in the fact it takes standard off the shelf PCIe cards and RAM and the Xeon is swappable too. It’s too bad Apple probably won’t sell it barebones. I’m sure the minimum is going to be way beyond what I can afford to pay, but at least hopefully this means a further hit to the used market for the 4,1s and 5,1s. And I can trade in my 3,1 for one of those.

#85

I’m assuming the 28-core processor is the Intel 2nd Gen Xeon W-3275 based on specifications (28-cores, 2.5GHz base frequency, 66.5MB cache - 28MB L2, 38.5MB L3 combined and 2933MHz memory clock with support for >512GB RAM).

Provided that assumption is correct, a leaked Geekbench result last month suggests that processor will be a performance monster, recording a single-core score of 5211 and a multi-core score of 39869.

Compared to a high-end PC, I’d expect system builders could assemble a machine with similar performance but at a much lower price using AMD’s Ryzen Threadripper processors. Depends what performance and pricing we see when those eventually move to their Zen 2 architecture. The Intel benchmarks aren’t final either, so at this time, it’s difficult to compare how they stack up.

That, of course, is coming from someone with almost no grasp of the PC hardware business and where it’s headed, so take that with a grain of salt.

#86

That’s one powerful and expensive machine. Would be awesome on the second-hand market in a couple of years for the DIY enthusiasts.

#87

Looks good! Expansive, though I assumed that was a given.

#88

I wish they would get a move on and post the keynote. They arent usually this slow

#89

I am wondering about the AUD price…

A second hand one of these could be my computer in 3 or so years.

#90

Entry price is the same in US for iMac Pro and Mac Pro (no display). So I’d guess entry here of $7299 too.

#91

Yikes!

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#92

no Keynote yet

#93

Its finally up. I started watching and immediately got bored with all the self congratulating crap they do. Arent we clever, isnt this great, oh gee just look, its GORGEOUS! Nope… I cant watch any more. I think I have finally become immune to the hype,

#94

Everything is so … nooooo (Tim can’t pronounce new)

#95

I enjoyed this thread.

#96

It took me years to mildly like the G5 PowerMac Cheese Grater aesthetic, The Trash Can was only ever an amusing joke, but this new Cheese Grater abandons all the good aspects of the old case and accentuates the clumsy and ugly.

Apple Inc had such an opportunity to create a new really outstanding series with expansion and modularity configurations to support ALL levels of Pro use, but dropped this fugly box on us instead.

Looks like I’ll be going to go back to hacking a tosh or three once we know more about MP:TNG

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#100

Up to $50k! That’s just insane, but then clearly I am not the target audience for that… Clearly we are well well well above consumer grade or even prosumer usage.

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#101

However, it is the world’s most beautiful monitor stand. I am sure it is the best monitor stand ever made. Just ask Jony Ive.

Hopefully they will bring out the solid gold “Edition” stand.