Apple to launch new Mac Pro

Stub article.
From https://9to5mac.com/2017/04/04/appl...dular-mac-pros-next-year-with-apple-displays/
Apple is currently hard at work on a “completely rethought” Mac Pro, with a modular design that can accommodate high-end CPUs and big honking hot-running GPUs, and which should make it easier for Apple to update with new components on a regular basis.
Modular design one should hit 2018 supposedly.
As part of doing a new Mac Pro — it is, by definition, a modular system — we will be doing a pro display as well. Now you won’t see any of those products this year; we’re in the process of that. We think it’s really important to create something great for our pro customers who want a Mac Pro modular system, and that’ll take longer than this year to do.

In the interim, we know there are a number of customers who continue to buy our [current Mac Pros]. To be clear, our current Mac Pro has met the needs of some of our customers, and we know clearly not all of our customers. None of this is black and white, it’s a wide variety of customers. Some… it’s the kind of system they wanted; others, it was not.

In the meantime, we’re going to update the configs to make it faster and better for their dollar. This is not a new model, not a new design, we’re just going to update the configs. We’re doing that this week. We can give you the specifics on that.

The CPUs, we’re moving them down the line. The GPUs, down the line, to get more performance per dollar for customers who DO need to continue to buy them on the interim until we get to a newly architected system.
In the meantime, Apple is today releasing meager speed-bump updates to the existing Mac Pros. The $2999 model goes from 4 Xeon CPU cores to 6, and from dual AMD G300 GPUs to dual G500 GPUs. The $3999 model goes from 6 CPU cores to 8, and from dual D500 GPUs to dual D800 GPUs. Nothing else is changing, including the ports. No USB-C, no Thunderbolt 3 (and so no support for the LG UltraFine 5K display)

I love how they say the 2013 Mac Pro is a failure, yet they give it a small refresh and still sell it at that absurd price tag.
 
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Meh. Did they even consider Ryzen? That's probably too customer-centric.

Also it's insane that the same hardware as 2013 sells for the launch price in 2017. Are Apple ecosystem people really that desperate?
 
Make Mac Pro great again!

Yeah no the current rubbish bin mac pro is a piece of schite compare to that work of art.

My brother had one of those & a macbook pro but switched to PC/Win for desktop, he reckons you had to be stupid to spend that much on a lower spec rubbish bin when they brought them out.
 
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