New Mac Pro line anytime soon?

[Terry VerHaar]

The fact that Apple is adding support for R3Ds in FCPX doesn't necessarily mean that it was because of any communication by Redusers. They supported it in earlier versions of FCP, before anyone "petitioned" them. I'd suspect it was on the roadmap all the along. Coincidence more than causality.

As for the MacPro - I am sure Steve is right; Apple will do what is good for Apple.

[Tim Sutherland]

Also, it takes Apple at least 2 years to develop a new computer from the ground up, so requesting this now if you think they're already abandoning it won't do much good for a couple years. And if they already started one, well, then its already in the works.

Tim

[Sergio Perez]

You guys remind me of these guys :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14nj...eature=related

[joe hedge]

Reliable source says no chance Apple will ax Mac Pro

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles...x_mac_pro.html

[Clint Engler]

Don't hold your breath They always take their sweet time on this stuff

[Jeffrey T. Morgan]

https://www.facebook.com/MacProsPlease

[Dmitry Burenok]

14,000 requests so far... Pretty bad sign for Apple - not much reason to create product for almost non-existent market. Waste of time and money. On other side - billions of people waiting for new more shiny iPhone/iPad - definitely way to go :)

[Subhadip Sen]

Watched Tim Cook's D10 session a few days back and he mentioned a very important point and a key reason to Apple's heightened brand value. If there was ever a product that wasn't greatly successful, they don't hesitate to kill it and move on, instead re-allocating the team from that project onto a more successful and profitable one.

Cook noted that the only real exception to this was Apple TV. Note - it doesn't have to make a loss or be completely unsuccessful. Apple has killed many products in the past which were profitable but there was a parallel line which was even more so. The last product line which "disappeared" was Macbook, it unceremoniously vanished from the stores one fine day after not being updated for a long while. By no means a failure, but Macbook Air was simply a more attractive line to focus on.

Obviously, this may have nothing to do with Mac Pro, and I still expect some product above the iMac to make it to Apple Store sometime (mostly to support the ecosystem), but just something to consider. It won't be terribly surprising if they did indeed kill the Mac Pro line.

[Glen David Miller]

One thing that's starting to drive me crazy is talk of the Post PC. Okay, yes, I own an ipad. I own an iphone. And a few years ago I switched over to a Mac Pro simply because I was tired of dealing with all the PC nonsense. And this is coming from one of the first CG animators, someone who loved building computers in the garage. I worked on Titanic, Star Trek an a whole lotta other things and it got to the point that I wanted to stop building machines and start creating art with the machines.

Now that my whole array of software is working on the Mac (except for one app), It drives me crazy to hear on one side, "Oh, you know the Mac Pro will be killed off," and the other, "The tablet is the PC of the future."

Well, the ipad is great. But I do more with my computer than browse websites, write e-mail and dabble with hobby photo editors. There are no professional tools for the ipad. And it will be years before any appear. And when they do, I'll probably want a mouse, a stylus and a keyboard to use them!

You can't change out the video card of an ipad, nor an iMac. That's sort of key for what I do (3D, video editing, photoshop, animation, etc). You can't add a second HD to an iMac without pulling the machine apart or stacking yet another external drive on the desk. And I also haven't found a way to hook up my 30" monitors to the ipad.

So, I hope everyone who professes the death of the expandable tower is dead wrong in their opinion.

And if they're right, I hope Apple is smart enough to offer OSX to the PC world. Tell me what cards you like and I'll (UGH) build my own mac. Whatever the case.... I not only want it.... I need it.

-Glen

[FrankMcPartland]

Pre-WWDC flurry: updates expected for most Macs, but wither Mac Pro?

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/...All+content%29