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Do the sales justify the investment in time, continued expertise, and human resources? Is the creative/technical professional market greatly lucrative? Not by the scale of iPhone sales.ĥ. The Mac Pro accounts for, I’m guessing, a percent of Apple’s total Mac sales. And yet, there’s an entire factory dedicated ot it in Austin. Apple relentlessly leaves low profit products behind. Apple prefers to excite the average consumer with how cool a product is and deal with consumers in a more controlled way in the retail stores.Ĥ. For the mothership to dwell on industry accepted, technical details that make or break a product for the scientist or engineer is an alien idea. They like to have sales reps who are technically deep and who have enough clout to help solve their problems. But those field sales people must be exceptional: both politically astute and technical. Technical professionals aren’t impressed by feel-good advertising. That Apple will tell you what you need doesn’t go over well in some circles.ģ. Unfortunately, “design by Ive” often trumps geeky technical needs from individuals, even widely respected ones.
Technical professionals expect Apple to appear at their favored conferences, mix with them, listen to and respond to their needs. Catering to the Pros? The pros make their living with their computers. Imagine the howls over a 2017 Mac Pro with nothing but six USB-C ports.Ģ. Apple likes to always move foreward with style and avoid embarrassment. Certain functionality and expandability would have to return to make the professionals happy. Apple would have to take a bit of a step backwards. Without repeating the arguments for the defendants (us), let’s consider why Apple would, perhaps, like to abandon the Mac Pro. Will Apple allow that? If I were to guess, however, I’d say that Apple is planning to discontinue the Mac Pro line.
And there’s been much discussion of how Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft are hungry to take the creative and technical professional business away from Apple. The company has taken enormous heat for allowing the 2013 Mac Pro to linger on without an update. However, before I do that, I want to preface my remarks with the notion that Apple may well have a new Mac Pro in the works. But, I think it’s worthwhile to look at the pros from a surmise of Apple’s perspectives. The support for as many as six 2560x1600 displays using all six Thunderbolt 2 ports remained unchanged.So what is the “pro” to Apple discontinuing the Mac Pro? I only see “con”s. However, on June 16, 2015, without updating the graphics cards themselves, Apple quietly increased the official support to as many as three 5K displays (5120x2880) - two using Thunderbolt 2 ports and one using the HDMI port. Originally, this model reportedly supported as many as three 4K displays or six Thunderbolt displays.
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Ĭonnectivity includes six Thunderbolt 2 ports, one HDMI 1.4 UltraHD port, 4 USB 3.0 ports, and Dual Gigabit Ethernet ports in addition to 802.11ac and Bluetooth 4.0. Specifically, this model - the Mac Pro "Quad Core" 3.7 (Late 2013) - is powered by a single 3.7 GHz Quad Core 22-nm Xeon E5-1620v2 processor with a dedicated 256k of level 2 cache for each core and 10 MB of level 3 "Smart Cache." By default, it was configured with 12 GB of 1866 MHz DDR3 ECC SDRAM, a 256 GB SSD, and dual AMD FirePro D300 graphics processors with 2 GB of GDDR5 memory each. Instead of internal expansion, the system provides extensive high speed ports for external connectivity options. There is no mistaking the "Late 2013" Mac Pro models for earlier ones as they present an Apple described "radical" departure from the large, highly expandable tower case design of yore and instead feature a compact dark gray, glossy cylinder design that is approximately one eighth of the mass but has limited internal expansion.Īpple explained that these "Space Gray" cylinder Mac Pro models are "designed around an innovative unified thermal core" and have not only faster processors than earlier models but also dual workstation class graphics processors, faster memory, and faster PCIe 2.0 x4 flash storage.