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Rumor Suggests Replacement for Mac Pro Due in April or May

Monday April 8, 2013 1:03 pm PDT by Jordan Golson
MacDailyNews, which does not have much of a track record on rumors, says one of itssources said Apple will announce a replacement to the Mac Pro at some point in the next several months. 

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Apple will announce its replacement for the company’s Mac Pro lineup this month, a source who has been correct about Apple product matters in the past has just informed us. 

Our source offered no information as to whether the "Mac Pro replacement" would be a tower, mini-tower, or some other solution, but did caution that the announcement "could slip into May or even June, but currently April looks most likely."

It has been nearly one thousand days -- almost three years -- since the last significant update to the Mac Pro. 

Last year, Apple said a new Mac Pro model was likely to arrive sometime in 2013. Earlier this year, a European reseller claimed they heard from Apple that a new Mac Pro would arrive this Spring. WWDC 2013 would seem to make the most sense for the announcement of a new pro-level Mac workstation. 

The current Mac Pro is not available for purchase in Europe because of EU regulatory requirements around unprotected fan blades, providing some additional incentive for Apple to release a new model.

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I could see them doing something like a Mac (not so) Mini with a bunch of thunderbolt ports, dual multi-processors, and offering a rackmount PCIe accessory for those that need to load up specialized cards, and a rackmount SATA drive enclosure for those that just need storage.  It would cover the Mac PRO, XSERVE (RIP), and XSERVE RAID (RIP) product lines.  That is, if I owned Apple, that is what I would do.

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I could see them doing something like a Mac (not so) Mini with a bunch of thunderbolt ports, dual multi-processors, and offering a rackmount PCIe accessory for those that need to load up specialized cards, and a rackmount SATA drive enclosure for those that just need storage.  It would cover the Mac PRO, XSERVE (RIP), and XSERVE RAID (RIP) product lines.

 

Tom, I'll vote for you as the new CTO of Apple!

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I too would guess the World Wide Developers Conference in June would be the likely place for such an announcement.

 

But check out this chart of Apple's Q1 2013 revenue:

 

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(From this Jan 23, 2013 Macrumors article: http://bit.ly/17HOCwt)

 

CPU net sales comprise about 10% of revenue. That includes Macbooks, iMacs, and Mac minis. So what I take from this: The next Mac Pro could be the last Mac Pro.

 

More constructively, I'd like to see Apple make a computer with a six-core i7 CPU. I'm pretty sure I can do everything I need to do with a CPU that costs a heck of a lot less than a Xeon CPU.  Cram that i7 into a lego-style Mac Middi (a bit bigger than a Mini) and let me stack them if I need to.

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Thats pretty sad. Those of us who use Mac Pros aren't the type of consumer that is interested in throw away technology, and if that doesn't suite a company that wants us to buy a new machine every year, then someone else will likely step up to the plate and take that clientele with them once Apple dumps us. I like having expandable PCIe slots, multiple HDD bays, and the ability to inter change and upgrade items at my will, which is why an iMac does not suite my needs, let alone the fact that very few professional sound products have adopted thunderbolt, and there are a great deal of legacy products that will only work in a tower architecture (UAD PCIe powered plugin cards and Pro-Tools HD cards come to mind).

 

Well I suppose we can always get Hackintoshes.... I hear they're just as good and a third of the price....

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