Welcome to our community

Be a part of something great, join today!

Log in
  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

Mac Pro Announced at WWDC! Looks great!

Status
Not open for further replies.
Ethan Cooper said:
So basically this thing is a really really fast MacMini but to differentiate the product line they made it round. Why round? I would have been ok with an extruded MacMini, why go and make a form factor that makes no sense? Admittedly I tend to lace vision when it comes to drastically new types of products but I really don't see this lasting. Cube 2.0, just um, rounder?
Click to expand...

The form factor is explained very well on the Apple website, where there is an entire page explaining everything you might want to know about the new Mac Pro. The short explanation is that the design is basically a cooling tower with a hollow central core that collects all of the heat from the cards (which are arranged vertically around the core) and vents them through a silent fan at the top of the enclosure. Quite a brilliant design, actually.

I think a number of people here and elsewhere are overlooking the obvious: Thunderbolt 2 is a very, very effective answer to the issue of interconnecting high speed peripherals. The throughput of 20Gb per connector - and there are six of them - means you essentially have more than double the throughput of the most commonly used high speed version of Fibre Channel (which is 8Gb) and double that of 10Gb Ethernet (which is very popular for NAS and many types of "direct connected" storage).
And you have it times 6. Blackmagic already has a 4K SDI device that is Thunderbolt connected (the Ultra Studio 4K) - and they just lowered the price on that to under $1000. So you have everything you had in the PCIe card, but you also now have 4K, and via a single cable (their 6Gig interface). Storage becomes a no-brainer, and your portable storage just became a lot more useful because it can be directly used with your desktop - and at maximum speed. Video? Well, that's also delivered over Thunderbolt and can support up to 3 4K displays - and you can use adapters for everything from DVI to HDMI. Video? There's a built in HDMI port, with the latest version that supports high resolution displays. Honestly, the only thing I see missing is direct support for NVidia and CUDA, but the unit is not shipping until the fall (at least) and things could change on that front between now and then. What I see is a company really reasserting themselves as an innovative leader, and although you might have to buy some additional pieces, the new approach is much better suited to the future than anything anyone is selling right now.
 
The form factor is explained very well on the Apple website
Click to expand...
Yep, just saw that. My question:
Why the heck didn't they use those website animations in the keynote? Wouldn't that have been far more impressive and answered a lot of questions then and there?

Or did they? My keynote kept freezing. Did I just miss it?
 
The website for apple really explains it very well. and with FCPX taking advantage of all that extra speed, and with a redrocket card...
 
M Most said:
I think a number of people here and elsewhere are overlooking the obvious: Thunderbolt 2 is a very, very effective answer to the issue of interconnecting high speed peripherals..
Click to expand...

Would a Red Rocket-X perform the same in an external Thunderbolt enclosure as it would inside on a PCIe x16 motherboard?
 
Patrick Tresch said:
The question is : wich one to shut down?

:biggrinjester:
Click to expand...

Merge them all, delete (or move to a separate thread) all the sarcastic comments that do not add anything constructive to the conversation (just like the one I am making now) and voila!

:sifone: Peter
 
Just a comment. Imagine if you could buy those with a Red Rocket inside them. That would take away the biggest bottleneck for me.
Would be cool if it could indeed have the new one built in
/Andreas
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top