New Mac Pro

[JFreak]

Wat, you don't need HDX6 ???

[JFreak]

Seriously, that box is going to be sold 99% for video people. The rest are people who really want to run HDX internal

[musicman691]

Originally Posted by audiobob

And starts at $6,000. Looks like I made the right move to a Pro Tools PC. Lots of power on that new machine but man, that's steep. So once the cheese graters and trashcans are done with, there goes the $2,500 price point to enter the Apple Pro arena. Entry Mac Pro's been that price for at least 20 years (that I can remember). The exclusive Apple club continues its move up the price scale.

Actually according to an article I read from the CNN site the new Mac Pro is bringing back the cheesegrater form factor. Said article even used the term 'cheesegrater'. Also as to cost keep in mind inflation.

[musicman691]

But at least we get the cheesegrater form factor back. Even an article on CNN site mentioned the term 'cheesegrater' which means easy user upgrading. Wonder what it has in the way of internal storage other than the 1.5 TB of ram. Drive bays running direct off the pcie bus so you don't need an adapter card like the existing cheesegraters?

[JFreak]

Originally Posted by musicman691

Drive bays running direct off the pcie bus so you don't need an adapter card like the existing cheesegraters?

Likely, but what spec?

[profdraper]

Originally Posted by JFreak

Too bad they didn't reveal the storage system of that box.. was so important to mention up to 1.5TB memory they forgot to tell us what kind of SSD they have built in there. (or maybe that's still under development, after all they are only available sometime "fall")

2x half height M.2 slots, see tech specs. Hard to say if that might be propriety or can take say, Samsung HH M.2s.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015...your-next-ssd/

[macmusic9]

The base model 8 core starts at $6,000 and it can go to 24 cores. New 32 inch 6k displays are $6,000, extra $1,000 for the stand. So, base model mac pro and 2 displays with stands, $20,000 out the door. Wonder what a maxed out mac pro would add to that total. Don't get me wrong, I would love to see this setting in my studio but, like i said earlier, i would have to sell or take out a mortgage on my house to make it happen.

[macmusic9]

J Freak, I'm sure an HDX6 would get me total nirvana and a grammy

[JFreak]

Originally Posted by profdraper

might be propriety

the apple.com spec page "shows" proprietary connectors so the adapter hell continues?

[Evil Jack]

OSX 10.15 only for trashcan Mac Pros onwards.
Seems that 5,1 cheesegraters are done...