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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday April 10 2018, @07:55AM   Printer-friendly
from the amorphous-blob-maybe dept.

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A year ago, I visited the Apple campus in Cupertino to figure out where the hell the new Mac Pro was. I joined a round table discussion with Apple SVPs and a handful of reporters to get the skinny on what was taking so long. The answer, it turns out, was that Apple had decided to start completely over with the Mac Pro, introduce completely new pro products like the iMac Pro and refresh the entire MacBook Pro lineup.

[...] In that discussion a year ago, Apple SVP Phil Schiller acknowledged that pro customers, including developers, were hungry for evidence that Apple was paying attention to their needs. "We recognize that they want to hear more from us. And so we want to communicate better with them. We want them to understand the importance they have for us, we want them to understand that we're investing in new Macs — not only new MacBook Pros and iMacs but Mac Pros for them, we want them to know we are going to work on a display for a modular system," Schiller said.

[...] While there are no further details on the exact shape that the Mac Pro will take, Boger says they are still very much in the modular mindset. [...]What shape that modularity takes is another matter entirely, of course. I know some people have been pining for the days of internal expansion card configurations with standardized hardware — and maybe that is the way that this will go. But on Tuesday I also got a tour of the editing suites where Mac hardware and software is pushed to the limits, including extensive use of eGPU support, and a different vision emerges.

[...] All we currently know about the Mac Pro is that it's modular and that it's being shaped by the feedback from those pros in-house, as well as external conversations with developers and professional users.

[...] As a side note, by the way, I wouldn't expect to see any more info about Mac Pro at WWDC in June. Maybe Apple will surprise on that front, but I think for anything further about Mac Pro we're going to have to wait for next year.

Source: https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/05/apples-2019-imac-pro-will-be-shaped-by-workflows/


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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday April 10 2018, @12:12PM (1 child)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday April 10 2018, @12:12PM (#664907) Journal

    Does anyone choose Apple anymore for a particular strength other than it is not Windows?

    Beat me if I know. I'm a Linux guy, using Windows daily because the company that pays me uses it.
    Mac? Nope.

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  • (Score: 2) by Oakenshield on Tuesday April 10 2018, @12:36PM

    by Oakenshield (4900) on Tuesday April 10 2018, @12:36PM (#664917)

    Beat me if I know. I'm a Linux guy, using Windows daily because the company that pays me uses it.
    Mac? Nope.

    I'm in the same boat. I run Linux 90% of the time at home (I dual boot) and have a Windows desktop at work. Although I do manage a bunch of Linux servers. The issue is that you never hear about Macs holding most of the market (or mind) share in any particular field anymore. Even the education field is (or has) migrated to Chromebooks or Windows. I do hear about users of Macs doing development work for other OSes in addition to the captive IOS work, but that's about it. Do Macs have a strength anymore? A coworker has one of the little flower pot Macs from a couple years ago, but he loves Apple. The number of Apple machines he supports in our building, I can count on one hand.