I admit I'm using my 1,1 as an extra seat in the office, but it's form of use.
My dad had a G5 (essentially the same case design externally) and this guy is probably not kidding, those things felt like a massive aluminium block
I admit I'm using my 1,1 as an extra seat in the office, but it's form of use.
And I bought it back in 2006
Looks like non-functional 2006 Mac Pros are on eBay for $60. Cheaper than an office chair!
wdym, how does a block you sit on become non-functional?
It falls over?
They're overpriced crap now. You buy at a 3x premium for the hardware, and you get the OS. That's it.
But it all lives in a big cheese grater
I'd consider it if they just sold it as an atx case. But then again, I probably couldn't afford it because just the wheels accessory is $700.
The cases of old ones are on eBay, as I mention in another comment.
And it looks like someone has made ATX mounting kits.
https://thelaserhive.com/product/mac-pro-atx-kit-with-psu-mount/
maybe we'll see the mac pro again in apple 2: the search for more money
Apple 2: the search for more money aired in 1977.
We’re WAY into the Apple Universe at this point.
Well this was very obviously coming. The last iteration was pointless and from that they didn't bother to even refresh it in a while, I assume it sold fuck all.
On one hand, bummer. But on the other, sort of a waste of hardware anyway.
I was a big time pro user. G3 tower with DVD card, G5 dual, Mac Pro 5,1 with dual X5690's and other upgrades. But I had to drag those systems kicking and screaming out of Apple's walled garden to do what is second nature on the PC side of things. Loved the OS back then, but not all users were braindead drones.
"Pro" stopped being a moniker for advanced capability, instead the most expensive, least hobbled version.
I hope whomever replaces Cook (rumor has it) once again remembers what it was like to be a nerd under all that businessman authority.
If I were shareholder I would want answers as to what the actual hell Cook is doing right with Apple. Every decision just seems to be intentionally designed to lose money.
From all the messing around with core products, to the bizarre decisions that led to the updated vision pro, a device no one is interested in, been upgraded to the latest version of the device no one is interested in, now with tungsten. Nevertheless I'm sure the iPhone sock is going to be a rip roaring success.
They could replace him with a goldfish swimming around a tank to make decisions, and it would lead to more coherent outcomes.
Apple silicon has been a huge success. That transition had a million ways it could and should have failed but he pulled it off.
AirPods basically took over an entire market. You either have AirPods or a knockoff of the same idea. That’s basically it now.
The watch….needs some attention. Everyone has one, no one knows what it’s for. I pay for things with my watch and people are floored it could do that. I’m like “why the hell did you buy it if you didn’t know what it can do?”
The iPhone is good. It’s not great. It’s overpriced as fuck. But the product itself, even the air, is good. The latest round of software for it is a disaster though. That holds true for all of the software this release cycle. Across everything except the appleTV, things were made measurably worse.
It just so happens that Android is also getting worse. I loved Android being there to save me from Apple when they finally pissed me off enough to leave and cheer them on from the sidelines. This year, I was finally ready to make the jump and leave and then Google says they are effectively killing third party OS development and locking down the platform. Also, Gemini is going to run on everything and you can’t do anything about it. You can’t turn it off, you can only turn off your ability to interact with it directly. Because AI.
I bought another iPhone, and now I’m looking at Linux phones seriously and thinking to myself “why not?”
The M-series Mac Pro was always for companies which were going to rack them and use them in render farms. Normal people was never its intended market. It was more of an Xserve successor.
Apple would need to design a different CPU for the Mac Pro, and the limited market doesn’t make it feasible. Descending the M-series CPUs from the A-series limits what the designs can do.
There are rumors of a CPU split in the Apple lineup. iPhone, iPad, iMac, Mac Mini, MacBook get the A-series, and MacBook Pro, Mac Studio. Mac Pro get the M-series. That would make sense, and might give them some room to expand the “Pro” procs.
I thought there were already some M-series iPads that gave some actual workstation laptops a run for their money though.
iPads have always had the problem of having waaaaay way more compute power than they were ever capable of utilizing.
Or - and this is a wild theory - just cripple the ones using a-series chips and keep the m-series the same but charge more.
A-series would already be at a disadvantage due to being designed for iPhones and the design parameters that entails compared to the M-series.
I can’t remember if it’s announced or rumored, but I think there’s an entry-level MacBook coming with an A17?
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