Yet another product-packed 1 hour Apple event introducing ground-breaking chip technology. Apparently not even worth a full two hour presentation.
ā¦Just kidding! I thought the new stuff was pretty amazing. I see a new iPad Air in my futureā¦
No new Mac Mini or Mac Pro today, but the year is still young.
No new Mac Mini or Mac Pro today, but the year is still young.
Given the new Mac Studio - with amongst other things a lot of IO - what are the odds of a new Mac Pro? Perhaps weāve seen the update already?
A lot of elements of the Mac Pro are so vastly different to that of Apple Silicon Macs - expandable memory, expansion slots etc. - that I wonder whether itāll even be updated. The Mac Studio is almost an update to the ātrash canā Mac Pro.
I could see a mac Studio coming home. I could just go with my existing Dell 32" monitor, I was considering a Mac Mini already, so a step up, I donāt need a ton of memory, have to do external storage either wayā¦
Yep, but the rest was a yawn for me, SIL ws looking for a new iMac, butā¦ Maybe another release is in the worksā¦
Given the new Mac Studio - with amongst other things a lot of IO - what are the odds of a new Mac Pro? Perhaps weāve seen the update already?
The odds of a new Mac Pro are pretty high. Straight from Appleās mouth: https://youtu.be/CUwg_JoNHpo?t=3494
But there might be no āproā version if the Mac Mini, and the 27" iMac Pro seems to have been discontinued - itās not even a category category on the mac products page any more!
Soā¦
https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/mac-studio/10-core-cpu-24ā¦
I see the SSD is $600 for a 2 Tb, a tad pricey, as usual, 32Gb Ram is where I am, on my 2012 Mac Pro, but I like the cushion of a 2 Tb SSDā¦ I could move my existing 2 Tb clone drives off to an external caseā¦ So maybe wait, see whether that is user upgradableā¦
I think a new Mac Pro, like the last one, is way out of my gameplay, unless I hit the Lottery, way more than I need, wantā¦
Mini, Studio, maybe reachableā¦ Might need to get DW a new car first, thoā¦ 
Off-topic: One day I would love to see the company announce at one of these events that it is releasing new versions of their old computers, like the Apple/Apple II, Classic Mac, etc., for golden-age hobbyistsā¦I would presume the company could charge a pretty penny for that (my poor Classic Mac II no longer functions!)and get some incremental revenue and store trafficā¦
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Off-topic: One day I would love to see the company announce at one of these events that it is releasing new versions of their old computers
The old machines? Running on current OS? Or original OS?
Could be quite the wickey sticket to pull off; not sure the ROI would be there for the number of nostalgia buffs willing to write checks.
Just spotted thisā¦ Bye Bye 27" iMac!
https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/8/22967616/apple-27-inch-imaā¦
Slipping into MAY!!
Mac Studio and Studio Display shipping estimates slipping into May hours after launch!
https://9to5mac.com/2022/03/08/mac-studio-studio-display-shiā¦
BrerBear, I do indeed mean the original OS. I really have no idea, but - and maybe you or someone else might know - I always assumed that doing something like this would cost a small amount of gross costā¦arenāt the chips, plastics, etc., that went into the original ones very cheap these days? But I do acknowledge, itās unknown how many nostalgia buffs are out there. Iāve been yearning for original companies to release original, old hardware for a long timeā¦be great if Atari re-released its Atari 8-bit computers, for instance, or if Nintendo did the same for Nintendo Entertainment System, etc. Some of that does exist, but more on a licensing basis; if Apple did it itself, might be a neat thing. But would it be a great business model, as you askā¦thatās an interesting question to me.
Probably will never happen, but heck, I never thought the original programmers of āPitfall!ā and āDonkey Kong 2600ā would actually be making new games for that old systemā¦!
Hence came the Hackintoshesā¦
I could see, as a hobby, fitting in a Mac Miniās internals into the earlier cases, but a lot of adapters, rewiring would have to be sorted outā¦ Maybe even into a little iBook, but many optionsā¦ Iād like to see a mod on my 2012 Mac Pro tp keep the form factor, but take it to a 64bit machine, able to run the latest OSā¦