Comments on: Mac Pro shipping times slip, refresh imminent

By: Iasky

Iasky — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:22:00 +0000

I hope your right Michael. I still have my money in the “Ultimate Mac” account ready to click yes to “Are you sure you want to buy this 16 cell monster?” In the mean time I am building some awesome robots using AutoCAD Mac and am looking forward to AutoDesk Inventor Fusion for the Mac. No way Apple is going to give up the Mac Pro.

By: Michael North

Michael North — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:34:00 +0000

The best Winblows machine you can get is a MacPro …
The new FCP (X) is a sweet and beautiful program, that will only get better with up dates.
Their one real sin was not opening older FCP files … (but they’re working on it)

Avid is just another name for MicroSloth :o) … it’s owner!
And Media -De-Composer has the ugliest User-Interface look of any program I’ve seen running on my Mac.

In a couple of months we’ll have a 16 cell monster that will eat 50-bits-per-secound video
with a smile … and leave any HP mac-wanta–be it the dust.

By: Wagner Goldberg

Wagner Goldberg — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:07:00 +0000

i need this machine for gaming, apple should at least have some higher end processors in their iMac line up. That would pretty much mitigate the need for this machine.

By: Holoman

Holoman — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 01:46:00 +0000

The shipping times are due to shortages in the 1 TB drives. Switch the drive option to the 2GB drive or the SSD and the ship time changes to 2 – 4 days.

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Cheap VPS hosting — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 07:24:00 +0000

“well I’m not sure what to make of this news- I hope its not a case of too little too late for Mac”

By: Iasky

Iasky — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 12:04:00 +0000

Wow! Happy New Year to you Buzz Kills too! I don’t play games and do a little bit of video editing, but I do crunch some serious numbers and can’t wait to get my hands on the Next Gen Mac Pro! HP..come on..how much fun would that be. Do they offer free development software? Do they offer an OS X, Windows and Linux running on the same computer? There is still a market for these machines, it just takes time to make the upgrade worth while. I agree, Apple needs to do incremental market adjustments between cycles, but come … there are many different kinds of professionals besides graphic artists and video editors that use OS X and high end computers and we are excited about this rumor.

By: Ageless Male

Ageless Male — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 04:56:00 +0000

I’m a Mac Addict, but I would still say, it depends on what you want a
computer to do. If you want to play the latest games, you should really
invest in one of the new Mac Intels,

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 03:57:00 +0000

Mac Pro will die. If Apple really cared about the professional user they would have made FCP a professional software. Not a Prosumer software.

Plus look at the Flash fiasco as well. Apple was very close with Adobe at the beginning. Now? It’s HP, Avid and Adobe. Simply put, if you are looking at this grade of machine, you will be wanting to buy an HP, not a Mac Pro. HP, Avid and Adobe have teamed together to make HP optimized to run Avid and Adobe software. Meaning if you want the best machine for video/audio/photography/graphics arts/illustration/etc.. your choice is HP.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 23:43:00 +0000

“suggesting that the high-end Radeon HD 7970 or the 7950 could be an option in future configurations.”

HAH! If past models are to go by, it’ll be a 77xx or 76xx series. Mac Pros have never been bundled with high-end GPUs. The current ones ship with 5770′s for crying out loud.

By: Zachary Koterba

Zachary Koterba — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 23:39:00 +0000

Rofl. The desktop is already dead (besides gaming) why would they refresh an alternative over-expensive option…