Mac Pros discontinued in EU

[chris morgan]

following a story from techcrunch, it looks like apple will officially stop shipping Mac Pro units to the EU due to new regulatory standards.

the loop has an official apple statement on the situation:

http://www.loopinsight.com/2013/01/31/apple-confirms-mac-pro-sales-will-cease-in-eu-on-march-1/

so... as someone who is becoming more frustrated by my underpowered mac pro day by day... i'm hoping this will encourage apple to get this mythical "revamped mac pro" to market a bit faster. i've been spending a lot of time on HP's site lately...

 

[jake blackstone]

The operative word in this announcement is Apple stopping the sale of the "current" Mac Pro. It makes no sense to redesign the current Mac Pro to comply with new EU regulations, that are going into effect in March. And there is no reason why the NEW Mac Pro will not be made compliant with new regulations.
If anything, to me that decision points at the new redesigned Mac Pro right around the corner.

 

[Brian Merlen]

LMFAO it literally took government intervention to make Apple release a new Mac Pro! At least there is some entity that can tell Apple what to do these days... They sure as hell don't listen to us/the fb page/all the angry pros in all the high end industries

 

[Jake Bastian]

"The new requirements necessitate fan guards and some increased protection on the ports on the electrical system,

Apparently these are the requirements that effected sales (in bold):
EN 60950-1:2006/A1:2010 includes the following significant changes from EN 60950-1:2006/A11:2009.

Modified requirements for bridging resistors (1.5.7.1 and 1.5.7.2)
Additional requirements for VDR (1.5.9.4)
Modified marking requirement for equipment with multiple MAINS SUPPLY connections (1.7.1.1)
Modified compliance criteria for LPS (2.5 c)
Additional and modified requirements for safety interlocks (2.8.4)
Modified requirements for minimum creepage distances (Table 2N)
Additional requirements for rack-mounted equipment that should comply with Annex DD (4.2.1)
Additional requirements for rotating solid media (4.2.11)
Additional requirements for UV radiation (4.3.13.3 & 4.3.13.4)
Modified requirement for LEDs whose compliance standard is changed to IEC 62471 (4.3.13.5)
Additional requirements for protection against moving fan blades (4.4.5)
Additional requirements for evaluation of IC current limiters (Annex CC)
Additional requirements for the mounting of rack-mounted equipment (Annex DD)
Additional requirements for household and home/office document/media shredders (Annex EE)

Given Apples latest fan patents it seems like an easy fix to implement unless (A) you are upgrading soon (B) the line isn't profitable anyway so you're moving out of the market.

 

[Michael Romano]

This is either the very beginning or the very end.