new mac pro will leave many apple faithful in tears. apple slaps you in the face

Apple after 2 years of sitting on their hands over the mac pro made promises to give it a much needed overhaul. today the mac pro is up for pre-order and its an absolute joke. its a slap in the face of faithful professional desktop users. the specs of the 2012 mac pro and nearly the exacty same. they overclocked the xeon cpu by all of a fraction of a ghz and that was it. no USB 3.0, no thunderbolt, no SATA III, not even raising the memory speed to something faster.

this has started leaving a bad taste in alot of peoples mouthes, including apple employee's

https://plus.google.com/117840649766034848455/posts/StKLcccP4ny

and pc magazine was quick to get the drop on this little apple fail.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2405660,00.asp

i knew things will go to s**t when Steve Jobs passed away, notthing new here.

The Mac Pro isn't on the same refresh cycle as their consumer line up and Apple as myself having working in actual IT over the years are seeing more people opt for their laptops instead since they are offering great horse power that a workstation can offer in a small design. These Mac Pro's aren't the same workstation type machines that they once were and mainly just serve as a file server in machine room or a print server.

I don't how people find this hard to understand or freak out about unless they are new to the Apple universe because the Mac Pro's aren't on the same refresh cycle like they consumer line.

Once their vendor supplies have ran out for that configuration they will get a refresh.

Hmm, Mac Pro's have always cost too much for what you get. Could build a redonkulous PC for 2500 bucks.

The Mac Pro isn't on the same refresh cycle as their consumer line up and Apple as myself having working in actual IT over the years are seeing more people opt for their laptops instead since they are offering great horse power that a workstation can offer in a small design. These Mac Pro's aren't the same workstation type machines that they once were and mainly just serve as a file server in machine room or a print server.

I don't how people find this hard to understand or freak out about unless they are new to the Apple universe because the Mac Pro's aren't on the same refresh cycle like they consumer line.

Once their vendor supplies have ran out for that configuration they will get a refresh.

xXDrPainXx

I sure hope not, If anything a print server should be a virtual machine, it is not that intensive.

it snot jst the mac pros. dont forget each gen isnt always an overhaul. granted, 2 years is a long time to not do anything....mac book 13 pros last time went from 2.3ghz -> 2.4ghz, and now they are 2.5ghz...........yay, finally caught up to the speed of a HP or acer less then half the price.

Mac are for old people who don't know a damn about computers or people who think that spending the most money possible = best experience.

Those specs are awful considering it's 2.5K. That's pure insanity.

You mean Apple released a "NEW" product with roughly the same specs as the model before with a bit more improvements and marketed it as "AWESOME NEW MAGICAL PRODUCT" ???

Nahhhhhhhhhhh..... :P

I'm sure the screen is pretty to look at. It has over twice the resolution as my current 15 inch laptop.

Well it still has the Apple logo on it so it will sell like hotcakes :roll:JC_Spot

[QUOTE="JC_Spot"]Well it still has the Apple logo on it so it will sell like hotcakes :roll:neo_87

I'm sure the screen is pretty to look at. It has over twice the resolution as my current 15 inch laptop.

hoola

mac pro is the tower ;) OP is talking about the mac towers not laptop (mac BOOK pro)

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The Mac Pro isn't on the same refresh cycle as their consumer line up and Apple as myself having working in actual IT over the years are seeing more people opt for their laptops instead since they are offering great horse power that a workstation can offer in a small design. These Mac Pro's aren't the same workstation type machines that they once were and mainly just serve as a file server in machine room or a print server.

I don't how people find this hard to understand or freak out about unless they are new to the Apple universe because the Mac Pro's aren't on the same refresh cycle like they consumer line.

Once their vendor supplies have ran out for that configuration they will get a refresh.

GummiRaccoon

I sure hope not, If anything a print server should be a virtual machine, it is not that intensive.