Ill just leave this here: http://www.engadget.com/2013/06/10/next-generation-apple-mac-pro-eyes-on-at-wwdc-2013/ Never before have I been blown away by a piece of hardware in similar fashion. To think must of us get a semi by looking at a cooler from a Titan....This is in a different league all together!
It is pretty much Mac Mini disassembly nightmare multiplied by factor of 10 . While it looks cool, it is pretty much a non-serviceable system, once it goes down it stays down.
Beg to differ - it looks serviceable (note the obvious screws) with relative ease, but you aren't going to be putting a PCIe card in there any time soon. All expansion is via Thunderbolt2, which right now, might be a touch restrictive. Unlike the Mini which is simply tiny, the Mac Pro seems to have its components right in your face and reachable. It's an interesting machine - I wonder how much the single CPU/GPU models are going to cost?
While it might not offer the same serviceability as the outgoing model, I still think it retains some upgrade- and serviceability. This is a premium machine, and it should last for a long time, it wouldn't make sense if repairs are impossible. I really really want to see it disassembled.
Stick it at the side of it then. http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2013/06/06/silverstone-external-graphics-card-case-deb/1
I think the lowest model has double firepro as standard (or thats the impression I got from engadgets live blog). I think it actually looks pretty serviceable, and I'm sure iFixit will find a way. Don't get me wrong, theres no way I would buy (or could afford) one, but I think its exactly the thing iOS developers and professionals has been waiting for. To quote engadget: "it has specs, all of them"
If you tried to dissasemble a Mac Mini 2011 or later, then you know what i mean by "disassembly nightmare", and i am sure this one will be even more packed. By "non-serviceable" i meant the custom SSD format, probably soldered in RAM, you aren't won't be able to put a different graphics card here (unlike the older Mac Pro), it looks like you will need a special screwdriver as well. Sure, iFixit will tear it apart, but they will score it with sub-5 score as well. iOS developers ? Mac Mini 2012, or if they do a 2013 refresh then the new one. There is really no need for that extra calculation peformance of the Pro for development (while it could speed up the compilation a bit, it is simply not worth the €800 vs €2500 price difference). Rendering, Photoshop etc - now we can talk about the need for that extra performance. PS: The designers will have to put a special post-it note on it as well, or the cleaning lady will try to get the stuff out of that weird dustbin . People called Fortress FT03 a dustbin, Mac Pro is a dustbin^2 .
What I don't get is why Apple covers all that in a black cylindrical housing. It should be transparent plexi to show off all that geeky goodness inside! This picture is going into my porn folder.
Surely that's got to be mainly custom hardware, and as a result won't be very upgradeable, although no doubt Apple will sell some bits which can be for extortionate prices. The case makes it look quite cheap from that video in my opinion, and I don't really like the back at all, but with the innards exposed it looks quite cool, not very apple though (and hence why they added the terrible case)
I am not a fan of the design... because after a month the computer will be full of scratch like all glassy plastic. But I am impressed by the design and how much power they put inside. I expected a low-med range mobile GPU and mobile CPU.. maybe even ultra-low-voltage CPU. See, this is what manufactures like Dell, Acer, HP, etc needs to do. This is the kind of things that gets people impressed and buy new systems.
