2013 Mac Pro Announced at WWDC

[ra91111]

So pls can smb explain to me some thing I m missing
- how much ram will u be able to put I the new trash can
- are the internal ssds removable
- are the gpraphics cards removable
- btw is this a joke

Long live the hackintosh!!!!!!

 

[Koalaman]

After watching the presentation on apple.com, I'm a fan. I really like the idea. I wish they made PC cases in a similar style.


You can open it, just upgrade-ability seems questionable.

 

[accelito]

Analyze the data, see the photos the design was very challenging to control something as temperature, everything is modular typical Apple, it will be possible to upgrade some hardware. They are pushing the thunderbolt as connectivity hub. I'll be possible to expand but only with Apple certified hardware as always

40GB/s of PCI Express gen 3 bandwidth
PCIe Flash Storage
60GB/s of memory bandwidth
Only ONE fan to cool the system (unified Thermal Core)

 

[manrei]

Oh my god, how beautiful this will turn around to show me it´s shiny a** when the power cord, data storage, a display, my wacom and maybe some more cables are attached!

 

[EDGERIDER]

as thunderbolt is only delivered by intel, if you read the specs, before too long we might be able to built some pretty dam cool machine
with dual xeon E5 AND thunderbolt... with 128 gigs of 1866 ECC ram

and with 40 lanes of PCIE 3.0 just drop :

1 GTX TITAN,
a couple off new Adata pcie ssd in raid 0 at 1,8 GB/s
and a areca raid 6 of 8 x 4 TB hdd in SATA6G

for the price of the new Mac Pro ..... I dont mind if I have to trim a G5 case a little bit....

 

[TurbineSeaplane]

MacPro is very sexy...

However I keep my desktop Hack out of sight under the counter...

I really don't care what it looks like (within reason), and making ThunderBolt the only expandability is a non-starter for me.

MacPro also looks EXPEN$$$IVE to me.
We'll see!

 

[tonymacx86]

2 AMD FirePro GPUs- wonder if it's this one- i spotted it because of the 6 mini DPs.

AMD 100-505746 FirePro W600 2GB 128-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 Workstation Video Card


http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814195115
http://www.amazon.com/ATI-FirePro-DisplayPort-PCI-Express-100-505746/dp/B008MHAMT2/

 

[samandliam]

I must say this is a striking design, it does evoke a few powerful images:
Firstly, I thought of the wax cylinder and thought this may please the more 'vintage' audio guys.
Secondly, it looked to me like something a Bond villain would try to take over the world with.
Thirdly, I am looking forward to seeing what minihack, neilhart et al can do with one of these.
You hope these things don't fall over a roll away before you can secure the to your desk with the thousand cables at the rear, they may roll away..

edit: just saw the new airports.. the folks at apple mustn't have kids. I can't see these tall thin objects objects lying on their sides. "I didn't do it" will be my kids responses.

 

[djblastyfone]

Are people honestly upset by this? This is everything we could have hoped for if not more. I was uneasy about the form factor and non-PCI graphics at first glance too, but after going through apple's preview site for it I can say that this is easily one of the most impressive pieces of hardware I've ever seen come out of Cupertino. This isn't the half-assed slight-redesign-with-a-newer-CPU-before-we-kill-it-off I was expecting, this shows that Apple still a vested interest in pursuing the professional market longterm and are looking to innovate instead of doing the bare minimum to keep that slice of the market in their pocket.

The more you look at the new design the more you understand how much sense it makes. Need an external RAID enclosure? Thunderbolt. Blackmagic Intensity or Red Rocket? Thunderbolt. Old PCI and PCI-E cards from your old Mac Pro or PC desktop? Thunderbolt with a card adapter. The CPUs look like they can be easily swapped (along with the flash storage) and the standard dual-FirePro GPU setup is sure to make a big push for OpenCL and other GPU compute technologies for professional applications on the Mac. The redesign only seems less flexible until you realize you can daisy-chain up to 36 (!!!) Thunderbolt devices to it, each chain on a dedicated 20GB/s bus, and it only seems unnecessarily small until you realize it's size is what allows it to follow the thermal core design. Now, if I only had the money to buy one... .

 

[bcarlzson]

Aren't there tons of issues with PCIe storage drives?


EDIT: I have a side question about the mac book airs having the Haswell chips with Iris. How bad of news is that for the hackintosh community? Hopefully the Mac-Minis will have HD4600 chips in them.