Ondrej Holzman Mac Pro has received a lot of attention after many years. Phil Schiller showed off what Apple's brand new most powerful computer will look like today at WWDC. The Mac Pro has received a completely new design and, like the new MacBook Air, will be built around new processors from Intel.
Today it was only about the presentation of the new Mac Pro, it will not go on sale until the fall, but Phil Schiller and Tim Cook promised that there is something to look forward to. Together with a new look and significantly reduced dimensions, the new Mac Pro will also be much more powerful than the previous model.
After ten years, the Mac Pro as we've known it is coming to an end. Apple is switching to a completely new design, in which we can see the signs of Braun products, and at first glance, the new powerful machine really looks a bit like from the future. Elegant black design and only one-eighth the size of the current model, which is 25 centimeters in height and 17 centimeters in width.
Despite such drastic changes in size, the new Mac Pro will be even stronger. Under the hood, it will be able to have up to a twelve-core Xeon E5 processor from Intel and dual graphics cards from AMD. Phil Schiller claimed that the computing power reaches up to seven teraflops.
There is support for Thunderbolt 2 (six ports) and 4K displays. Furthermore, on the relatively miniature Mac Pro, we find one HDMI 4.1 port, two gigabit Ethernet ports, four USB 3 and exclusively flash storage. Apple omitted the optical drive, following the example of the latest MacBooks.
Jony Ive really won with the design of the new Mac Pro. Although all the ports are located on the back of the computer, the computer recognizes when you move it, and at that moment the port panel lights up to make it easier to connect various peripherals.
Apple's new most powerful computers, which will also include Bluetooth 4.0 and Wi-Fi 802.11ac, will be manufactured in the United States. The Californian company has not yet announced the price of the new Mac Pro.
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If this was the new Mac Mini, I'd be peeing with joy at how beautiful it looks. But it's a Mac Pro and there the design is in last place for me (even though the current one also looks absolutely great). What I mainly want from a Mac Pro is a lot of disk space and expandability. I want a workstation in which I can put 6 HDDs and change the graphics card to the latest model every year. I'm afraid neither will work in this form factor.
The new Mac Pro is a beautiful little box that will have to be surrounded by many other boxes of external devices connected by Thunderbolt on the desk, which brings with it an extra price (a thunderbolt box for an external drive costs 2-3 times as much as the drive itself) and we are back again until there's a crazy mess of cables behind the desk and a nest of AC adapters and power strips under the desk to power it all. Oh no…
maximum agreement, unfortunately I see quite often enthusiastic reactions without a brain...
For God's sake, why bother with the computer today, when I can connect up to 36 devices via TB. Removing PCIe and DisplayPort was a great move by Intel. And the periphery is increasing. Nobody will probably change the graphics in the Mac Pro, 4K will be fine and it will probably be enough for games. And it's only a matter of time when something will be available via TB. If you're a card gamer, there's nothing stopping you from building a PC or Hackintosh...
Just two details. I don't know of anyone who would upgrade their graphics to the latest every year because Black Magic's candies are in the thousands of dollars and upgrading every year for thousands of dollars is pure nonsense. And to upgrade a graphics card for 300 dollars is also stupid, because such a card is so possible for games.
Let's face it, the vast majority of Mac Pros are retired with the same graphics they came with at the factory.
The second thing is that the mentioned 6 disks are connected to a mess of cables, but the fact is that the Thunderbolt ones are 3x more expensive, but at the same time 6x faster and you can connect over thirty of them at once. You can put about 4 of them in the computer case, because more of them will not take up the resource.
Retrospectively, after the "passion" has cooled down, I have to admit that you (and Mr. Zitka) are mostly right. I would probably welcome space for at least 1 internal disk as an option to supplement the super fast internal SSD with a large storage space that would be together with the computer in one box. But I guess I understand Apple's logic for not doing it. How big the internal SSD will be is not yet known, is it?
Respekt.
I estimate the built-in SSD to be 240-256 GB, just like the MacBook Pro with Retina. The system fits in there and 200 GB for work, if you want more, you have to pay extra. It should be enough for musicians, who will play with the video, will still move around in the TB units.
Can you give me a link to the only classic high-capacity disk that is 6x faster when connected via thunderbolt, compared to a normal disk that is connected via a 6Gb SATA cable? A little thinking would not hurt, the speed of the device is not proportional to the throughput of the thunderbolt interface, but it is proportional to the performance of the disk itself inside the miraculous box.
Of course, I agree with that, one SATA disk in a box connected via TB obviously doesn't make much sense, but musicians, for example, will use the faster response of TB here than offered by USB, which at the same time has a greater load on the processor. That's why someone makes those boxes and someone buys them, even if the speeds are around 150-200 MB/s.
As for speed, I got 2011MB/s on a SATA drive on a Mac Pro (180), even if I put 4 in there in a RAID, I might get over 400MB/s.
Of course, I meant disks in RAID, for example 1200 MB/s Promise: http://store.apple.com/cz/product/H5184ZM/A/raid-systém-promise-pegasus-r4-4%C2%A0tb-(4×1%C2%A0tb)
For home use, of course, something like this will blow your mind, but professionals can prepare a project, disconnect the disk and have it rendered from an external disk elsewhere, on a more powerful machine. With internal drives, this wouldn't be as easy and certainly not as fast.
I just wanted to say that the concept of an internal SSD and everything else on external drives seems the most viable to me. I've come to this point myself, I only have iPhoto, iTunes and documents on my iMac. I have my work and videos on a FireWire drive on which I edit, then I back everything up on a Time Capsule. In this way, I am able to seamlessly transfer work between multiple computers, which I think is an important prerequisite for professionals: individual replaceability and portability between computers. When the computer dies, I can pick up where I left off, with a delay of a few minutes.
Incredible performance really.. And the look.. End of the box :)
I see that they are done with pseudo-modern design. But what you call a box is an incredibly timeless design. That box is one of the most beautiful pieces of my corporate property and will definitely be there forever. Modern design that gets tired in two years is useless, it's exactly the same feeling as seeing two Braun products and one from the right designer...
I'm not attacking you, I'm just describing the design as well.
Thank you for answer. Not so much finished as surprised by the direction Apple took at this year's WWDC. And already about the complete graphical transformation of iOS 7 to the new futuristic-looking Mac Pro. Apple has been determining the direction of development for a long time. And if other manufacturers will continue with this look, I'm glad that we finally got rid of those "boxes". I didn't mean to offend your darling, I just mean the shape of computers in general..
It would be great for the Mac Mini. I'm mainly interested in the price
For me: I'm excited. This piece of harware fully meets my expectations. He even surpassed them. In my opinion, it is important to think about today's situation and future developments. Apple has succeeded in creating a professional HW ecosystem, where it brings people the same technological scaling possibilities as used by the most modern data centers. Basically, it has moved to a kind of level of "virtualized" station with brute performance, which has optional, maximum performance external components available. The whole magic lies in Thunderbolt 2 technology. You no longer need to have X drives installed, they need to be powered from the motherboard during the entire run time. You no longer have to pay or purchase an expensive and powerful RAID controller. I also do not connect disks to the server in the server room. I am using disk arrays. Imagine that power. While my servers "only" have a Fiber Channel interface with a throughput of e.g. 10 Gbit/s, Apple and Intel offer you an interface with a throughput of 20 Gbit/s in both directions. And you have six of them. The SAN technology available to me is normally calculated in the order of hundreds of thousands to millions of crowns, while Thunderbolt will cost you significantly (much) less. External RAID arrays are the future. How you assemble your Mac PRO is up to you.
Hmm, until today I said that there is only one thing that I want and cannot afford: a ticket to WWDC. Now there are two. Mac Pro, you'll be mine someday.
i have the same opinion and heretical idea -> install on new mac for vmware ESX
And it's no coincidence that the new Mac PRO is too powerful for Xcode :D
Mac Pro will definitely not be built around Haswell ;)
Still missing from the puzzle are iMac-style 4K displays in which discs can be inserted. Current screens are still very expensive, hopefully the prices will moderate and we will see such a 31″ Cinema Display for 1999 around autumn.
I think that will be the next step :)
Well done guys. We are considering switching to the apple platform in the company and I was just waiting for the presentation of the new mac pro. But this thing really scares me - the possibility that it will not be possible to change graphics cards. Is it realistic? We do audiovisual creation and it is crucial for us to work with Quadro cards from nVidia. I'm an apple newbie, so I'm asking - is it possible to buy a mac pro with a gpu card other than AMD, and if not, can the card be replaced?
You cannot change the built-in graphics. In addition, it is powerful enough and software is being optimized for it, at least by Apple, and later perhaps by Adobe. If it really wasn't enough, the stronger professional cards are external anyway, so slot cards are outdated technology.
I recommend adapting, ie. change the way you work. With new technologies, old procedures disappear because they would be ineffective. As for the transition, technologically Apple has a pretty solid lead as of yesterday. To switch, in my opinion, means to be 3-5 years ahead of PC solutions.
Moving to Apple means learning new procedures. Doing things differently. Those who accepted it simplified their lives. Spend some time learning Mac OS X in the beginning. You'll save yourself the hassle.
it's not ugly, just inconvenient for a lot of people... I would like it if one gpu block could be replaced with, for example, a block with two SSDs. the iPhone from the back of the computer also gets on my nerves, I hope someone comes up with a stylish dock station for the Mac with ports in the front..
If I ignore the fact that the new Mac Pro is a gem worthy of display on the table and after a simple turn you can plug in everything you need, then as a solution I suggest plugging all such frequently used things, such as headphones and flashlights, into the Thunderbolt display from the back. The current (outdated) version has this option, and the new one will certainly have it as well (speculations about when it will come are completely irrelevant to this issue)
It would be better to contact the manufacturer/supplier of your software. A non-AMD version may come out before this machine goes on sale.
What SW do you want to run? And what should be the result, format, medium?
Cinema 4D, Autodesk Smoke or Avid Media Composer or Vegas Pro if they make it for Apply (Sound Forge already did). So I am particularly interested in the speed of rendering, the possibility of editing in 4K and the preview of the editing in real time. Just for the record - I'm not a die-hard PC-sta, I'm just looking for the best price/performance ratio for the upcoming hardware upgrade in the company. I don't know Apple's architecture in detail, so I'm just not sure if AMD graphics will need to be pursued in two years.