Apple's powerful, cylindrical Mac Pro will start at $2,999

[Gunzkewl]

 

 

Apple surprised the world when it previewed the new cylindrical Mac Pro at WWDC 2013, and now the other shoe has dropped. The company has just revealed that the tiny new desktop will start at $2,999 this December.

The new Mac Pro aims to change it all in one fell swoop. Not only is the new coffeemaker-inspired chassis one-eighth the volume of original computer, Apple says it has twice the performance too, with the latest quad, 6-, 8-, and 12-core Intel Xeon E5 processors, up to 64GB of RAM, dual AMD FirePro graphics chips with up to 6GB of dedicated memory, and up to 1TB of far faster PCI Express solid state storage that runs at up to 1250MB / sec. Overall, Apple says it has 7 teraflops of compute power and should be able to do things like "seamlessly edit full-resolution 4K video while simultaneously rendering effects in the background." Around back, there's six Thunderbolt 2 ports to drive those 4K displays and connect to next-gen peripherals, as well as four USB 3.0 ports, dual Gigabit Ethernet jacks, and HDMI output.

 The base $2,999 model comes with a 3.7GHz quad-core Xeon processor, 12GB of RAM, dual FirePro D300 graphics, and a 256GB SSD. 

 

 

Source: http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/22/4849960/mac-pro-2013-price

I wont lie it's beautiful, but that price, 

[Lord Pantaloons]

Looks like a trash can

[Guest]

I can just see a teenager buying one and using it as a facebook machine.

[Bluethulhu]

How is that thing not going to be a portable furnace?

[Lord Pantaloons]

I can just see a teenager buying one and using it as a facebook machine.

Please don't mention things like that, the knowledge that there are people stupid enough to actually do that gives me nose bleeds.

[thexzenon]

For some reason I expected them to say dual Titans :lol: Looks really nice, but hell, I'll never need one. Really like the design, but isn't 256 gigs too little for a professional computer? They mentioned 4K, how fast would that fill the drive?

[brownninja97]

i just dont understand how it stays cool, that baffles me like crazy.

[ivhyn]

I never ever want to buy a Mac, but that's a quite interesting case design, everything is cooled just by one fan as far as I know

[TheMissxu]

I would make a custom chassis for it.

The case would look like R2D2.

[Warcony]

For some reason I expected them to say dual Titans :lol: Looks really nice, but hell, I'll never need one. Really like the design, but isn't 256 gigs too little for a professional computer? They mentioned 4K, how fast would that fill the drive?

 

The design of this computer is centred around the use of the thunderbolt 2 ports for expansion.  Basically upgrading nything will be very, VERY expensive .

[legopc]

so what are the prices going to be?? 500000 dollar? 

[NosRokanaske]

i just dont understand how it stays cool, that baffles me like crazy.

 

Me too it doesnt make sense to me. No matter how efficient the design for the air flow may be, its still only one fan and when it gets underload theres only so much it an do. I think its going to be an undervolted chipset kinda like the CPU's you find in Ultrabooks. Thats the only way i see it being cooled well, be at that price point, and have that low power rating.

[RatedBlam]

Me too it doesnt make sense to me. No matter how efficient the design for the air flow may be, its still only one fan and when it gets underload theres only so much it an do. I think its going to be an undervolted chipset kinda like the CPU's you find in Ultrabooks. Thats the only way i see it being cooled well, be at that price point, and have that low power rating.

I have no clue about LoVo chips but Intel might be cutting them a deal on some nice binned, power efficient and low thermal output processors

[Stonep11]

For some reason I expected them to say dual Titans :lol: Looks really nice, but hell, I'll never need one. Really like the design, but isn't 256 gigs too little for a professional computer? They mentioned 4K, how fast would that fill the drive?

As was mentioned, its all banking on Thunderbolt 2 (From display, storage, and even discs!). So if you want this for a professional use, you better hope ThunderBolt 2 external drives work, are fast enough, and cheap enough.

[NosRokanaske]

I have no clue about LoVo chips but Intel might be cutting them a deal on some nice binned, power efficient and low thermal output processors

 

True, i dont have much knowledge about Xeon CPU's so i cant really comment on their power usage. I can't wait for the benchmarks though. Thats when we'll know if this is legit.

[MJSBLUES]

Looks like a trash can

Represents macs well.

[Stonep11]

I have no clue about LoVo chips but Intel might be cutting them a deal on some nice binned, power efficient and low thermal output processors

I am sure they did, but that doesn't make them magic, it still seems like there is only one fan

[alepodj]

i dont care if apple is gonna reinvent the wheel,,, im not getting ripped off with overwhelmingly abused prices,,,

[Kirihuna]

I can just see a teenager buying one and using it as a facebook machine.

Yeah because most teenagers have disposable funds.

[Gunzkewl]

Yeah because most teenagers have disposable funds.

 

Don't underestimate the power of persuasion and rich parents

[kuddlesworth9419]

i just dont understand how it stays cool, that baffles me like crazy.

It probably runs very hot. There are so many things wrong with this work computer. Eg. not enough RAM, not enough storage, Quadcore Xeon, FirePro's and the cooling is probably going to be terrible. To do editing on a machine you will need more than 12GB more like 64Gb and for storage you will need a few TB especially when you are using 4K. Quad core Xeon won't cut it knower days, they should have gone for an 8 core. And FirePro's are not as good as Quadros. Titans are better than FirePro's. I have no idea though what the D300 line is because there is noting on the web about them. Even AMD doesn't list them on their website. And the cooling will be quite bad just looking at the case and the way they have cooled the FirePro's. If anyone ever needs to do editing or anything like that they will be better off building it themselves. 

[orangecat]

Looks like a trash can

Wow your pretty observant.

[TooManyErrors]

Wow your pretty observant.

You can't deny that it does.

[ultimatemythbuster]

I can just see a teenager buying one and using it as a facebook machine.

What else would that Mac be good for?

 

Mac hating quota filled for today.

[qwertywarrior]

Represents macs well.

whats the source of ur thumbnail gif ?