New Mac Pro: The Workflowsīut, what I really want to focus on is the workflows. So, Apple is just working around them - and through them - by doing things like MPX to make AMD a faster option, and working with developers to get all the leading 3D packages ported over to the Mac. And, the problem with that is that it destroys the integration and ease of transport Apple provides developers thanks to things like Metal. Apple won't talk about Nvidia the way they won't talk about Intel's tardiness with chips or continued lack of process shrinks.īut, it's my understanding Nvidia still won't let Apple write to the metal, which means directly to the hardware, and instead want them to jump through Nvidia's hoops. There's still no Nvidia graphics options though. It's very close to no compromises when it comes to everything… provided you're willing to pay for it.Įxcept for the one thing you still can't pay for: It's basically a thermally unconstrained monster of a machine.

You can read all of them off or, likely, see them in every other video hitting YouTube right now. 3 ports on the top and bottom, USB A ports on the front, two 10 GB Ethernet, and that's just the beginning. From the up to 28 Xeon cores - the brand new Cascade Lake optimized for workstations that Intel announced at the same time - and up to 64 PCI Express lanes, 300 watts of power, up to 1.5TB of ECC memory, four double-wide PCI Express slots, three single-wide slots, and one half-length slot preconfigured with the Apple I/O card, up to 4 TB of SSD protected b the Apple T2 security chip, Thunderbolt. You can put wheels on it if you really want to, and if you'd rather rack mount it than stand it up, Apple will have a model expressly designed for that, but otherwise identical in every way, available for you at launch. Just turn the latch and you can pull the aluminum housing up and gain complete, 360 degree access to the Mac Pro and its dual sided board. It's even easier to open than the old cheese grater. It has modules, like the Mac Pro Expansion Module, or MPX, and the Afterburner Pro Res accelerator. Modular but not in an unnecessarily weird, overly complicated, or wacky way. You don't just get a Mac Pro for today, you get a Mac Pro that can be updated for years to come, and maybe hacked on for a decade or more. That's the value of this design philosophy. An old cheese grater, and with new cards and some love, it's still as good as anything out there. Yeah, turns out, that was entirely possible.

And thanks to its 3D grill system, it even looks more like a cheese grater than ever before. The fantastically engineered, almost endlessly accessible and expandable tower of Yore. The best news ever is - the New Mac Pro… is a lot like the old Mac Pro.

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