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The design of the Mac Pro is certainly attractive, but since the only way to add on to it is through Thunderbolt, it seems a bit counterproductive. The sleek bl
by hdevalence 13y ago
The design of the Mac Pro is certainly attractive, but since the only way to add on to it is through Thunderbolt, it seems a bit counterproductive. The sleek black tube isn't so sleek when you need to have a bunch of external drives sitting on your desk.
- sp332 13y agoThunderbolt cables are long enough that you could hide the drives elsewhere, if appearance is the main concern. This would still take up a lot less room on a desk even with a bunch of drives.
- marquis 13y agoI'm looking for a clever designer to kickstart a MacPro case - that beautifully fits in your lovely black computer on the desktop along with slots for drives and cables. Could be quite a new thing for the independent accessory makers.
- rbritton 13y agoThat doesn't solve the noise problem though. Internal drives are significantly quieter than external enclosures.
- nsxwolf 13y agoHow loud are external SSDs compared to HDDs? Do they need a lot of cooling?
- mh- 13y agoSSDs are effectively silent; they have no moving parts. also, they don't require active cooling (because no moving parts; no friction, low power consumption)
- rbritton 13y agoSSDs still aren't at the capacities of HDDs, which are needed when handling lots of photos or videos in a cost-effective manner.
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- larrys 13y agoI'm seeing 98 feet. You could have them in a locked closet or cabinet conceivably. Expensive though. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbolt_%28interface%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbolt_%28interface%29 Note: I haven't read the entire wiki or triangulated it so this is a quick take.
- coob 13y agohttp://gizmodo.com/5974052/these-optical-usb-and-thunderbolt-cables-are-up-to-330-feet-long http://gizmodo.com/5974052/these-optical-usb-and-thunderbolt...
- vacri 13y agoThat's 9.8 feet, not 98.
- m_eiman 13y agoThe first such optical Thunderbolt cable was introduced by Sumitomo Electric Industries in January 2013.[30] It is available in lengths of 10 metres (33 ft), 20 metres (66 ft), and 30 metres (98 ft). However, these cable only retail almost exclusively in Japan, and the price is 20–30× higher than copper Thunderbolt cables. Copper cable is limited to 9.8 feet (aka 3 meters in the rest of the world), but optical cables can be up to 330 feet/100 meters. That price looks nasty, though.
- baldfat 13y agoWhy would anyone care what a work horse of a computer looks like? Except if your Apple and you want to show that looks on a workstation is initiative????
- darkchasma 13y agoI care. Aesthetics is important to me, and when presented with two comparable solutions, one ugly option and a pretty option, I'll most likely go for the pretty solution.
- baldfat 13y agoso you actually see your workstation computer? I always had mine in another room to block out noise.
- Scramblejams 13y agoOwn goal! :-)
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- FireBeyond 13y agoRight - and for anyone with a new Mac, or Macbook Pro, for that matter? Your Cinema Display will still be only USB2, with an annoying MagSafe adapter required, and “only” Thunderbolt 1. No announcement of a refresh for the display. "Thanks for buying a $3,000+ professional level machine from us. The display? Well, you'll have to buy an outdated $1,000 unit from 2009."
- mwilcox 13y agoI'm really surprised they didn't announce a 4K Cinema Display, honestly. I guess the price is still too high.
- FireBeyond 13y agoI'm still holding out some small glimmer of hope that it might come (at a high price) when the Pro is actually launched. They keep making mention of 4K...
- mahyarm 13y agoAfter seeing videos of traveling professional photographers bringing a thunderbolt display and more in checked luggage, I think this form factor will be very appreciated by that market segment.
- nsxwolf 13y agoRecall that internal expandability was a feature of the Intel Mac Pro only. The same enclosure was used for the PowerMac G5, and most of the space inside was for the cooling systems. There was room for a single extra hard drive and a couple cards and that was it. We're just going back to that, in an era when it matters less.
- e40 13y agoNot only that, the ecosystem for Thunderbolt is far from flourishing. I searched a couple of months ago, when the original announcement was made, and the external enclosures are very expensive, in the range of $1500. That's without adding the cost of a bunch of disks. I've decided that Windows 7 is my last Windows version. Once my current machine hits EOL, I really want a Mac Pro, but I need a way to get lots of storage that is reliable, reasonably priced and relatively quiet.
- lhl 13y agoOWC looks like they have some decent Thunderbolt drive options now: http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/Thunderbolt/ http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/Thunderbolt/ Barring that, if you're looking to add lots of storage, there are a lot of FW800 ($30 adapter) options. Also there are some ridiculously cheap USB 3.0 options but they look like they have lots of problems (build quality, firmware).
- pjmlp 13y agoNot only that, I surely am not expecting high end graphic cards to be appearing in boxes with Thunderbolt connectors. There the design is also quite limited.