Re: [Fed-Talk] Predicting the end of the Mac Pro
Re: [Fed-Talk] Predicting the end of the Mac Pro
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Predicting the end of the Mac Pro
- From: "Lamb, John (NIH/NHLBI) [C]" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2011 08:12:29 -0400
- Acceptlanguage: en-US
- Thread-topic: [Fed-Talk] Predicting the end of the Mac Pro
Mac Pros have nothing on Power Mac G5s when it comes to heat generators. I
happen to have one of each at my desk (the G5 is just for testing things
we plan to do to our dwindling PPC population) - I can bash at the Mac Pro
all day with VMs and you can barely tell its there (heat/noise wise), but
if I turn the G5 on and let it idle, its like I have a space heater under
my desk.
On 11/3/11 7:32 AM, "Villano, Paul Mr CIV USA TRADOC"
<email@hidden> wrote:
>Look on the bright side. They can always be used as heat generators. :o)
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Todd Heberlein <email@hidden>
>Date: Wednesday, November 2, 2011 23:30
>Subject: [Fed-Talk] Predicting the end of the Mac Pro
>To: email@hidden
>
>
>> A well written and well reasoned piece that left me just a little
>> melancholy. I suspect in 2 years time the top of the line iMac
>> with Thunderbolt expansion will have everything I need, but I will
>> miss the tower.
>>
>> Todd
>>
>>
>> Scaling down the Mac Pro
>> http://www.marco.org/2011/11/02/scaling-down-the-mac-pro
>>
>> > But I think it¹s clear, especially looking at Thunderbolt¹s
>> development recently, that Apple is in the middle of a transition
>> away from needing the Mac Pro.
>> >
>> > Fewer customers will choose Mac Pros as time goes on. Once that
>> level drops below Apple¹s threshold for viability or needing to
>> care, the line will be discontinued.
>> >
>> > I bet that time will be about two years from now: enough time
>> for Apple to release one more generation with Thunderbolt and the
>> new Sandy Bridge-based Xeon E5 CPUs in early 2012, giving the Mac
>> Pro a full lifecycle to become even more irrelevant before they¹re
>> quietly removed from sale.
>> >
>> > A few power users will complain, but most won¹t care: by that
>> time, most former Mac Pro customers will have already switched away.
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