Apple's New Mac Pro to Ship in December at $2,999

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can anybody find anything on the GPUs in it? i cannot find a single thing called AMD FirePro D300 anywhere on any website
 


I hear there are people who pay for large black things. I have even seen vids of women enjoying them.

You may not want to pay a premium of $1,000 but its a cylinder, so it totally could go for more.

Cylinders, they are the new cubes...
 
The D300 is about equivalent to a FirePro W7000 (given the number of shaders, compute power, and memory bandwidth). But it looks like they skimped on VRAM - the FirePro W7000 has 4GB per card, not 2GB.
 
"The components add up to about 1000-1200$. Fools and their money will soon be parted."

Please explain your math? Using the exact same parts. Xeons and everything, next tell me how much it cost to support this $1200 machine for one year, keep in mind that you also need to include the cost of software and lastly, find a workstation class board that has 6 thunderbolt 2 ports on it and provide that as well.

I think you will find that what you just mentioned does not exist and a comparable machine from another manufacturer costs fairly close to this machine if not more.

Also, Workstation class machine, not a gaming machine. The differences is productivity + making money vs wasting time + loosing money.
 


The 2 CPU's and GPU's alone cost over $1200.
 


Sweet merciful lord, I hope not. A quick check of scan computers tells me that those cards have a maximum TDP of 150W each. Combined with that CPU (which Tom's review tells me draws 125W at a high load), that's a single 12cm-ish fan trying to dissipate almost 500W of heat from one, rather large and inefficient heatsink. If anyone tries using that power CPU-GPU combination to its full potential, their new toy is going to turn into a hairdryer/paintstripper combo.

Of course, this probably won't be too much of a problem, since most macs are used as $2000 facebook machines, but ho well....
 
The problem isn't the pricing vs the components. The problem is with the target audience. This is the classic issue with Mac Pros. Who actually needs what this thing contains, at this price point? What sort of home user needs a Xeon with dual Firepros? What sort of business that ACTUALLY needs setups that contain Xeons with dual Firepros would turn to Apple to provide individual units for them instead of just coming up with their own solution and building it into server racks, rather than purchasing a ton of these weird cylinders?

Apple, as usual, is marketing high-end hardware that is truly only suitable for business solutions, to mainstream consumers. The way they package it makes it unusable for businesses (imagine a room full of 1000 of these things) and the hardware included is pointless for the vast majority of individual users. It's a vanity item, nothing more.
 
Personally, I love the new look. It's freaking slick and stylish. Well, everyone has a different sense of fashion. For me, this looks pretty good. If I am a professional that need a workstation, I wouldn't hesitate to get it. However, I have no use for such high end workstation. But it's still a cool machine to look at :)
 


I think I know where this is going! 😀 :lol:
 


Mr Paul, shouldn't you be preparing for the 2016 election?
 
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