New Mac Pro

[Coldfuzion]

I know there's a thread on the Apple Keynote thing, but this thread is dedicated only to the discussion of the new Mac Pro. I'm definitely interested and am seriously thinking about picking one up. I'd love to hear everyones thoughts on it.

http://www.apple.com/mac-pro/

[Polygon]

There's nothing "pro" about it.
It's gonna cost an eye, an arm and a leg. 3k minimum, given the fact it's manufactured in the USA.
And it has NO expandability whatsoever.

Want to install your REDrocket in that baby to, you know, edit PRO videos? Well that's just too bad.

"oh well yeah but you have thunderbolt 2 and shit"

So what? Taking bandwidth away from the GPUs? Fantastic!

This is not a PRO machine. This is just a nice-looking, heavily engineered prosumer unit which is going to look just oh-so-damn-cool together with those harman kardon soundsticks.

EDIT: also, 3k will probably be a quadcore model.

The 12core will probably weigh in at something like 7-8k, which is more than enough to build a 16core watercooled beast that will crunch the crap out of this, raw power-wise. Will it look as sleek and small? No.
Will you have the pleasure of having a better rig for the same price? Hell yeah.

[makar1]

Does Thunderbolt take bandwidth away in a way that regular PCIE does not?

[mdcdesign]

With the addition of the iPlastic iBag, it also doubles up as a handy office transhcan.

[loverocket]

With the addition of the iPlastic iBag, it also doubles up as a handy office transhcan.

I heard that iBag was $50 for a 20 count.

[padi_04]

They will add a couple of iBags for free once the wifi antenna problems start to emerge.

[mdcdesign]

Apparently the entire top of the unit acts as "one big handle"... very useful for all the times you'll have to take it down to the Apple Store for the "geniuses" to help you turn it on.

[SlvrDragon50]

My guess for price: 4k+

I wonder how many idiot users are going to buy this thinking they must have it for (insert non-intense task here)

[William Gibson]

There's nothing "pro" about it.
It's gonna cost an eye, an arm and a leg. 3k minimum, given the fact it's manufactured in the USA.
And it has NO expandability whatsoever.

Want to install your REDrocket in that baby to, you know, edit PRO videos? Well that's just too bad.

"oh well yeah but you have thunderbolt 2 and shit"

So what? Taking bandwidth away from the GPUs? Fantastic!

This is not a PRO machine. This is just a nice-looking, heavily engineered prosumer unit which is going to look just oh-so-damn-cool together with those harman kardon soundsticks.

EDIT: also, 3k will probably be a quadcore model.

The 12core will probably weigh in at something like 7-8k, which is more than enough to build a 16core watercooled beast that will crunch the crap out of this, raw power-wise. Will it look as sleek and small? No.
Will you have the pleasure of having a better rig for the same price? Hell yeah.

Poly, why dont you not hold back and tell us how you REALLY feel?!?!

:P

[SlvrDragon50]

I'd take a nice watercooled rig over this trashcan any day.

http://www.million-dollar-pc.com/

Clean loops are beautiful.