[ddots-l] Redesigned Mac Pro Coming In Autumn
- From: Chris Smart <csmart8@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: midimag@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 20:31:36 -0400
Quoting from a press release at:
http://www.soundonsound.com/news?NewsID=16257
Announcement of a completely redesigned Mac Pro.
The new model, slated for an Autumn release
trades features a much smaller cylindrical
design, only ten inches tall.
Any expansion of the new Mac Pro, which is
conspicuously assembled in the USA, must be done
externally, via the four USB 3 ports, two Gigabit
Ethernet ports or the six Thunderbolt 2 ports.
The Thunderbolt 2 standard, incidentally, is
twice the speed of the previous Thunderbolt and
allows data transfer rates up to 20Gbps and
connection of up to six devices per port.
Speed is king with the new Mac Pro and the design
incorporates Intel Xeon E5 CPUs with up to 12
cores, 1866MHz DDR3 RAM, and PCIe-based flash
storage, which is over twice as fast as regular
flash storage. On top of this, the Mac Pro will
be the first computer to ship with dual AMD
FirePro graphics cards, which can output 4K video.
Although it's branded as the "future of the pro
desktop" by Apple, the Mac Pro's lack of internal
expansion and optical media drive, combined with
its unusual shape, may frustrate Pro Tools and
UAD users, recordists running a mobile rig or
composers using large sample libraries that are
impractical to download. However, the speed of
Thunderbolt 2 makes an external PCIe chassis more
than possible, and optional external optical
drives have been available from Apple for some
time. It will probably only be a matter of time
before a third party comes up with a way of rack
mounting the new hardware as well.
As well as the Mac Pro redesign, the Macbook Air
range has also been updated to feature faster
processors and improved battery life now at a
claimed 12 hours for the 13-inch model. Although
in a real-life recording scenario this would
likely be significantly shorter, it might well
give you enough juice to get through your
recording session if you forget to bring the charger.
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