AVID & MAC RUMORS: RELATED?

[Bob Gundu]

Well if this might be apples last tower, they might as well go out with a bang. But the logic doesn't make sense if they took the time to redesign the tower. If they did indeed redesign the tower, I doubt we have seen the last of them.

[Jarek Zabczynski]

Well if this might be apples last tower, they might as well go out with a bang. But the logic doesn't make sense if they took the time to redesign the tower. If they did indeed redesign the tower, I doubt we have seen the last of them.

Agreed. If they redesign the MacPro at this stage, it's a sure bet it'll be around for a few more years at least. Then again, I'm fine with the current design.

[Blair S. Paulsen]

Several sources have seen prototypes of a rack mountable design so that's highly likely - makes sense for the pro market anyway.

The case form factor, whatever it is, will likely be with us for several years and with some clever design work I am optimistic it will be easy to upgrade most of the internals.

Cheers - #19

[Vico Martin]

Just heard a juicy rumor from a source I trust pretty well. New Mac Pro coming April: Intel C606 chipset dual Xeon-E5. 6 PCIe 3.0 slots (4 @ X16, 2 @ X4), 16 DIMM sockets, dual Thunderbolt ports. Rack-mountable, redesigned tower. Onboard SAS/SATA connectivity with hardware RAID 0,1,5. Open GPU support via nVidia only to start (buy any nVidia GPU card off the shelf). No USB 3.0.

I can't confirm or deny this one, but my source has been 99% accurate on specs for the last two Macbook Pro and Air releases...

You make my day Jeff, amazing news for everybody.
With a couple 590 this is an aeroplane!!