No more Mac Pro?!

It's essentially unchanged since 2010. Apple got a backlash last time they bumped the CPUs by a few MHz and stuck a big *new* overlay on the website.

Damn EU regulations, I had wondered why the PCs at work had all suddenly started sprouting guards on all the fans in the last 6 months,
 
It's just more evidence that Apple doesn't take their business/professional customers seriously as far as I'm concerned.

They won't drop the line, but it's clearly a product that receives very little attention and has done for quite a long time now.
 
You've got to question that it receives so little attention because it is more user upgradable than all of the other apple products.

Not saying that is right or wrong though.
 
You can upgrade it to a point, but the core itself still ages. Almost all of it's interfaces are old tech and there isn't much you can do about that short of ripping everything out and starting again. For the price you pay you should be getting an absolute cutting edge monster of a machine.

But that's getting beside the point - it's the fact that they've let the design slip to the point it will be taken off sale. That seems pretty incredible to me to a company in the business of selling computers. If the new Mac Pro is coming 'late 2013' then that's many months where supplies of the Mac Pro are going to be limited, and you would assume any BTO options would be completely unavailable.

I feel bad for anybody who might run their business on Mac Pro machines because Apple have dumped a huge load of uncertainty on their doorstep for 2013.
 
Anyone who 'runs their business' on Mac Pros should have seen the writing on the wall years ago, starting with the Xserves getting canned, then moving on to Final Cut Server and the latest FCP disaster. If you're an Adobe shop and need more power than an iMac can provide then you should probably be on Windows workstations.
 
MagicBoy said:
Damn EU regulations, I had wondered why the PCs at work had all suddenly started sprouting guards on all the fans in the last 6 months,
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It's a good regulation unless you're the type of person who objects to wearing seltbelts on libertarian grounds.

If you have an unguarded fan in a home with young children you can pretty much guarantee fingers/food/toys or whatever else you can imagine will be put in there.
 
I'm glad I've got my 6 core as well, I was tempted to sell it and buy an imac was offered 1550 cash for it but could go through with the sale. I just over the way I can chuck any hard drive in there. Also it's still really fast geek benched 15500, not too shabby.
 
Caged said:
Anyone who 'runs their business' on Mac Pros should have seen the writing on the wall years ago, starting with the Xserves getting canned, then moving on to Final Cut Server and the latest FCP disaster. If you're an Adobe shop and need more power than an iMac can provide then you should probably be on Windows workstations.
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Exactly. I don't get why they've let that whole side of their business slide really.
 
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