I think we designed ourselves into a bit of a thermal corner, if you will.
#2017 mac pro design upgrade#
1,202 days had passed since the last Mac Pro update, per the MacRumors Buyer's Guide.Īpple also suggested that the "trash can" design of the current Mac Pro has restricted its ability to truly upgrade it.Īpple's software engineering chief Craig Federighi via TechCrunch: The GPUs, down the line, to get more performance per dollar for customers who DO need to continue to buy them on the interim until we get to a newly architected system.Īpple said that Mac desktops represent roughly 20 percent of overall Mac sales, with the Mac Pro accounting for only a "single-digit" percentage of Mac sales, perhaps as justification for the elongated refresh cycle. The CPUs, we’re moving them down the line.
#2017 mac pro design 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." We’re working on it. It will be accompanied by an Apple-branded external display in at least one size, essentially marking the return of the discontinued Thunderbolt Display.Īpple marketing chief Phil Schiller via Daring Fireball: Meanwhile, Apple said an all-new Mac Pro will be a high-end, high-throughput modular system that will "take longer than this year" to complete. There are no other hardware changes-not even Thunderbolt 3 ports. The former quad-core model with dual AMD FirePro D300 GPUs and 12GB of RAM now has 6-cores with dual D500 GPUs and 16GB of RAM, while the 6-Core model with dual AMD FirePro D500 GPUs is now 8-cores with dual D700 GPUs and 16GB of RAM. Both models are equipped with 256GB PCIe-based flash storage, four USB 3.0 ports, six Thunderbolt 2 ports, and dual Gigabit Ethernet ports.
The former $3,999 model is now the $2,999 base model, while the previously built-to-order 8-core model with dual D700 GPUs is now the high-end stock configuration for $3,999. Apple also confirmed it is working on a "completely rethought" Mac Pro with Apple-branded pro displays that will launch at some point beyond this year. Apple today reshuffled its Mac Pro configurations and pricing, marking the first "update" to Apple's pro-oriented desktop computer in over three years.