6 core mac pro price update#
This is not a new model, not a new design, we’re just going to update the configs. In the meantime, we’re going to update the configs to make it faster and better for their dollar. Some… it’s the kind of system they wanted others, it was not.
None of this is black and white, it’s a wide variety of customers. To be clear, our current Mac Pro has met the needs of some of our customers, and we know clearly not all of our customers. In the interim, we know there are a number of customers who continue to buy our. We think it’s really important to create something great for our pro customers who want a Mac Pro modular system, and that’ll take longer than this year to do. Now you won’t see any of those products this year we’re in the process of that. We have a team working hard on it right now, and we want to architect it so that we can keep it fresh with regular improvements, and we’re committed to making it our highest-end, high-throughput desktop system, designed for our demanding pro customers.Īs part of doing a new Mac Pro - it is, by definition, a modular system - we will be doing a pro display as well. With regards to the Mac Pro, we are in the process of what we call “completely rethinking the Mac Pro”. Phil Schiller acknowledged that the 2013 Mac Pro had not been well received by many pros, and it was this that had led to the radical rethink. Apple bet on a dual-GPU design (multiple smaller GPUs, with “pro”-level performance coming from parallel processing) but the industry has gone entirely in the other direction (machines with one big GPU). The idea that expansion could be handled almost entirely by external Thunderbolt peripherals sounded good on paper, but hasn’t panned out in practice. But that tight integration made it hard to update regularly.
It was tightly integrated internally, which allowed for some very nice features: it was small and beautiful (a pro machine that demanded placement on your desk, not under your desk) and it could run whisper quietly. The company admitted that its 2013 model approach hasn’t been as upgradable in practice as it had hoped.Īt some point came to the conclusion that the 2013 Mac Pro concept was fundamentally flawed. The company explained that it is rethinking its Mac Pro approach and plans to unveil a new modular model sometime in the future.
In early 2017, Apple made a handful of announcements regarding the product. After letting the Mac Pro become stagnant since 2013, Apple has finally unveiled the new version.