Apple Shows Off Next-Gen Mac Pro: Big, Black & Cylindrical

[ojas]

Big, black, cylindrical?

 

[inthere]

Best cooling design I've ever seen on a computer if it's as quiet as it looks

 

[back_by_demand]

Hot on the heels of patenting rectangles, Apple is gunning to patent circles and triangles

 

[halcyon]

Looks like a modern-style garbage can.

Hmmm, but I can see how some might say it makes square and rectangular designs look like trash compactors and dishwashers.

It looks like the Genesis Device!
Almost as much hardware - I love the triple sided motherboard, the thing is tiny for what it packs.

I think it just may be the Genesis Device. Kirk's son would be proud.
I'm beginning to want one but alas in the configuration I need it'll be out of my range. I like different. This. This is different.

 

[Feerdbaald]

I just couldn't contain myself and signed in...

"It's all glossy black and is cylindrical in shape. Phil Schiller called the center of the design a "thermal core". While that is a fancy term that Apple loves to throw around, the cooling solution is pretty innovative. The center part of the casing is made of a three-sided heat sink, where each side cools the entire length of each PCB. Then, a single large fan pulls the hot air upwards and outwards."

Well, it is said that there's a place and time for everything, but not a novelty.

http://www.thevintageknob.org/rotel-RB-5000.html

http://www.thevintageknob.org/marantz-Sm_700.html

http://www.thevintageknob.org/marantz-Sm_1000.html

 

[MichaelSP]

I must say, looking at the specs and design of this, I would be tempted to buy it if it was it versus a comparable priced Windows system. I've never really used OSX, but my goodness, this system has some power!

 

[The_Trutherizer]

lol What?! Maybe it's the next big thing for PC shapes. If so then its certainly not immediately obvious.

 

[catswold]

Very cute, but looks like internal storage would, by necessity, be very limited. I'd be surprised if it came with more than a terabyte of PCIe-flash . . . and that stuff's really expensive.

 

[scooterboi]

and here I am trying to stuff a brazos e450 mobo into an old htpc casing, and stuck...
kudos to apple for packing massive horsepower to such small space.

 

[technomeyer]

Does this mean apple will pay more of their taxes?

 

[DRosencraft]

At this point there's a good number of people who are just relieved they finally released new Mac Pros at all. Now let's just see what the price is and then we can decide if it's "innovative" design, or some joke.

 

[RedJaron]

They said in the presentation it's more upgradable then the last Mac Pro

That's not saying a whole lot, sadly.

Best cooling design I've ever seen on a computer if it's as quiet as it looks

Silverstone does the same thing in their Raven cases and it works quite well.

 

[Taras Tchaban]

That triangular cooler is the Achilles heel there is not enough surface area for the fins. This design is great tough just needs a different cooler. I predict this machine is going to run very quite. I think Jobs had something inspiring this design because he didn't like loud fans...

 

[busuan]

Using off-the-shelf components (with some mods), can anyone make a DIY box with one-block heat sink air-cooling two GPUs plus the CPU?This is the true power of industrial integration of Apple.

 

[chumly]

Looks like a trash can.

 

[Rhinofart]

I think it's sexxxy

 

[Cazalan]

Just google "Cylindrical computer" and switch to Images. Plenty come up.

 

[lpedraja2002]

Wow this looks pretty damn awesome. I'd love to see how well it performs on the cooling side, probably the first Apple product I'm kind of excited about.

 

[moonzy]

They said in the presentation it's more upgradable then the last Mac Pro

They said in the presentation it's more upgradable then the last Mac Pro

Yes, yes, but Apple's view of "more upgradable" is generally vastly different from custom-built PC towers. It's not a Mac Pro tower, it's a laptop stuffed into a air fan can.
What can you possibly stuff into a 9.9" X 6.6" wide can? RAID thumb drives maybe?
Daisy-Chaining is not upgrading. Everything external - PSU, drives..What else?
PC enthusiasts should not really want anything like this. Oh, but it has twelve cores- OMG!!!! And it looks like it might use dual workstation GPUs! We're doomed! NOT!

 

[Alessandro Rivoira]

Subwoofer and so much more! Have a look: https://www.facebook.com/WhatNewMacProShouldBe

 

[Draven35]

'more expandable' because you can daisychain things off the three thunderbolt 2 ports. But you can only use graphics cards set up to work with their proprietary cooling systems. And no actual PCIe ports other than the two GPU slots.

 

[sna]

After Jobs, Apple's designs are all garbage.

LOL, is that what you do for a living? Are you an industrial designer? Can you please post the box you built at home with 12 cores?

I designed several Mac pros , one of them was 30x30x20 and had all the 4 slots , hot swap drives and still small .. and had a dual cpu as well.

yes Apple is declining unless they find some one who is a Computer Engineer + industrial designer both !