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AppleInsider: OS X 10.8.3 beta hinting at Apple's new Mac Pro?

There's also improved support for nVidia Kepler cards, specifically the GTX680 and GTX690. However, this doesn't mean a whole lot... We routinely see improved or beta support for various GPUs in developer seeds and beta releases, many of those graphics cards are never offered. Same with support for various Intel chipsets and CPUs that never release within Apple hardware. I think the real message to take away from this is that Apple is still testing and analyzing possibilities for the desktop and future workstations, Mac Pro or otherwise.
 
Jeff: I agree with you --- I am hoping Apple will offer some kind of update before Macworld 2013 (although I realize that they pulled their official presence at that show)
 
After the arrival of the iPhone, apple have been mostly catered to the consumers. Even their OS have borrowed themes from ios such as notifications, appsstore, and a more touchpad interface. I seriously hope the next Mac Pro is indeed for the "PROS"
 
Jett He said:
After the arrival of the iPhone, apple have been mostly catered to the consumers. Even their OS have borrowed themes from ios such as notifications, appsstore, and a more touchpad interface. I seriously hope the next Mac Pro is indeed for the "PROS"
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All operating systems are going the route of looking more like their mobile counterparts, look at Windows 8. But I do hope Apple puts out a new Mac Pro next year that is truly designed for Pros.
 
Maybe as this is a preview release not all the final graphics drivers will make it to the final release. It wouldn't be the first time that that happened.....
 
There could be a tough road ahead for content creators on the Mac. If you have played with Mountain Lion you know they have done things such as make your AVCHD material a package instead of a folder so it's difficult for certain apps to access that material. From the finder level you can use Show Package contents to get around this. Apple is trying to protect you from yourself. They don't want you to mess around with file structure that is needed by apps such as FCP X. So they mandate it and don't give you a preference to turn that off. It's cool that you can now just click that package and QT will bring up a viewer where you can actually watch your mts files finally. I suspect there is going to be more of this. "Streamlining" everything to make it fit their ecosystem. I know I'm dangerously walking the line of being a cynic and Apple has proven cynics wrong in the past. In fact I can remember my trepidation when going from OS 9 to OS X. There were radical changes and it meant being uncomfortable for a while. Eventually I embraced OS X. Maybe there are things in the iOS world which will become standard tools for me down the road. Trying to stay positive but there are signs that those of us that need the heavy iron tools might have to go over to something like Linux, where many creative professionals have already gone many years before.

I need a new workstation right now. I'm fighting the temptation to get a decked out Mac Pro 12 Core. For the first time in a long time I'm wondering if it's the right decision. I am not fully embracing the new OS and there's a new Mac Pro potentially around the corner. What that means no one knows (well, except Jeff Kilgroe maybe). There's been no roadmap laid out by Apple. If anything I feel a new Mac Pro is simply a peace offering. Apple hasn't been subtle in their statements about a post PC world. They want to kill off the desktop. The Macbook Pro Retina is a step in that direction. The iMac is a step in that direction. The iPad is probably ultimately the type of device that Apple really wants to innovate. It's all about portability, creating wherever you are. I think the professional desktop market is too "yesterday" for them. They probably still have a soft spot for those who need them. They do love Hollywood. But when will that love simply be replaced by the fact that they can make far more money in other areas?

I will probably stay in the Apple world until the very last moment. I've passed on many PC machines that can probably blow the doors off of a Mac. Why? Because Apple has always felt right. It always let me get work done the way I wanted to get it done. I've used PCs as a freelancer and they are fine. But when something fits just right you don't feel like shopping for something else. Today, I'm not so sure. I'm hoping that I feel a lot better about this in 2013. Perhaps the Mac Pros will be running OS X Professional. Perhaps once again I will sit down at my desk and feel at home with my computer. Until then I am getting by. It's not like anything has come to a complete halt. My machine still spits out movies from the Red Rocket, my NLE still makes edits. It's in the details where some of it gets messy. As a glass half full kind of guy, I'm still very optimistic about the future.
 
Jett He said:
After the arrival of the iPhone, apple have been mostly catered to the consumers. Even their OS have borrowed themes from ios such as notifications, appsstore, and a more touchpad interface. I seriously hope the next Mac Pro is indeed for the "PROS"
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That more depends on what your expectations of a "PRO" product is, if your expecting anything other than what has been traditionally delivered by Apple then you are only setting yourself up for disappointment.
However if you're simply hoping it won't be iOS in a tower then you'll probably be happy with the new Mac Pro, notifications and the appstore are not signs that they are focusing on consumers but rather trying to make features consistent, a lot of people I know in the film business use iPhones and being able access your notifications from your macbook pro is nothing to scoff at, also considering the app store made Final Cut Pro go from an OS 9 app costing $2k or something to a modern $250 download that's nothing to scoff at either.
 
Most of the iOS features that have migrated to OSX have been a blessing -- notifications! Sure there are third party solutions do do a lot of the same thing (like Growl to serve for notifications at times), but most of the features that have come over are as Craig points out, for consistency. The touch gesture support is great if you're using a touchpad or you're on a MacBook Pro/Air, whatever. LaunchPad is questionable to have the icon interface like on iOS. To me, this makes little sense unless we can actually touch the screen.

It will be interesting to see what they do with the next Mac Pro. Part of me would like them to just keep the existing, decade-old tower design and deliver another great dual Xeon system. This time around, let's ditch one of the optical drives and have another 2 PCIe slots. Make the drive trays not only support 3.5" HDDs as they do, but also support dual stacked 2.5" units so we can populate the system with 8 x 2.5" SSD or HDD media. The Intel C60x chipsets have better RAID controllers, SAS hosts in fact, built in. Let's use that to our advantage here.

OTOH, I can understand if Apple re-designs the Mac Pro into something else. If they stick with the tower design, it needs to be properly rack-mountable this time around. I would like to see them focus more on 2.5" storage options internally. Ultimately I think I would much prefer a more nodal or blade-style approach to the Mac Pro. You decide what capabilities you need and you buy it in modular slices. They could sell "towers" that hold either 2 or 4 slices so you could make a "desktop" system out of it, or install a dozen or more slices in a rack.
 
Mathieu Ghekiere said:
http://www.fcp.co/hardware-and-soft...k-like-peter-zigich-proposes-a-modular-design
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Yeah, that's come up around here a few times. Not to berate the guy's work and all due respect intended, that's nowhere close to what I've got in mind, nor the direction I think most of us would want this to go. Aside from having tons of wasted space in his design, the elements he has chosen to keep are al the outdated aspects of the towers and the quirky features (like the handles) that nobody ever liked anyway. Apple has some great designers, not just Johnny Ive, but there are times I really have to wonder what they're thinking. As sleek and efficient as most of their designs are, they could still learn a thing or two from others in the industry. HP and Lenovo both offer more ergonomic and functional handles on their workstation and still keep them within a rack-mountable profile. With current tech, Apple could double the output of their PSU and shrink it to 1/5th it's size... Just sayin'
 
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