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So they brought back the cheese grater Mac Pro. Now, was that so hard? Let the shutting up and money-taking begin... However, watching them demo the new one is

So they brought back the cheese grater Mac Pro. Now, was that so hard? Let the shutting up and money-taking begin... However, watching them demo the new one is just a painful reminder of what an over-priced bad idea the trashcan was, and we had to put up with that shit, and the apologetics to go with it, for six years. Demo's not done, but I'm hoping I don't have to listen to Ive's smooth British accent telling me it's the best, we really mean it this time. Get the person that slayed the management dragon to get this thing built and let them do the voice-over.

H1Supreme 7y ago
Do we know if the expansion slots will take 3rd party products? Or, is it all proprietary?
- monocasa 7y ago
  Looks like fairly arbitrary PCI-E, but I'm going to throw out there that kexts need to be Apple notorized now so the driver situation might be rough.
- ganoushoreilly 7y ago
  It looks on their page like it will support standard PCIE but there is a distinct lack of Power headers so I Imagine their new 2x PCIE interface thingy is what they're pushing.
- preinheimer 7y ago
  I had the old big silver Mac Pro, and while in theory it was all a standard graphics card slot, in reality you had to pay an extra ~$100 to get the "apple" version of any video card. I accidentally bought the wrong one once, spend like 2 weeks trying to like flash the firmware over, gave up and re-sold it on craigslist at a loss and bought the right one. (civ 5 still ran like crap)
RandomUser848 7y ago
Ive doesn't have a smooth British accent. He sounds more like he's mentally challenged.
lloeki 7y ago
The trash can Mac Pro was definitely a machine for my very specific niche (dev x FOSS x music x gamedev x some other use cases well suited for big-ish RAM + many CPU cores + good IO in a small mostly silent form factor). I did not care a single second that it was not upgradable, just that it was not updated by the time I set out to buy one (which I did not because of that). It was definitely more like a Mac Mini Pro.

H1Supreme 7y ago

Do we know if the expansion slots will take 3rd party products? Or, is it all proprietary?

monocasa 7y ago
Looks like fairly arbitrary PCI-E, but I'm going to throw out there that kexts need to be Apple notorized now so the driver situation might be rough.
ganoushoreilly 7y ago
It looks on their page like it will support standard PCIE but there is a distinct lack of Power headers so I Imagine their new 2x PCIE interface thingy is what they're pushing.
preinheimer 7y ago
I had the old big silver Mac Pro, and while in theory it was all a standard graphics card slot, in reality you had to pay an extra ~$100 to get the "apple" version of any video card. I accidentally bought the wrong one once, spend like 2 weeks trying to like flash the firmware over, gave up and re-sold it on craigslist at a loss and bought the right one. (civ 5 still ran like crap)

RandomUser848 7y ago

Ive doesn't have a smooth British accent. He sounds more like he's mentally challenged.

lloeki 7y ago

The trash can Mac Pro was definitely a machine for my very specific niche (dev x FOSS x music x gamedev x some other use cases well suited for big-ish RAM + many CPU cores + good IO in a small mostly silent form factor). I did not care a single second that it was not upgradable, just that it was not updated by the time I set out to buy one (which I did not because of that). It was definitely more like a Mac Mini Pro.