Re: Why do you think a new Mac Pro ISN'T coming?

I was thinking about Macs and power. Ignoring the irony that the most successful clone that Apple killed was Power Computing, remember the "Supercomputer on a chip" campaign from 1999? Introduced by SJ at the SEYBOLD SEMINARS no less! Contemporary reporting here, which is well worth being reminded of.

Since then, they've offered a lot of compelling reasons to buy Macs - none of 'em power...which is GOOD. That's not their game anymore.

Not to keep banging this drum, but the current Mac Pro supports 64GB RAM...compared to 512GB with the HP Z820. 512GB! I had to doublecheck that it wasn't a typo. Apple might double their RAM support, but increase it by EIGHT TIMES?

Likewise slots. Z820:3 PCI Express 16, a couple of Gen 3 8s, a Gen 2 8, and a legacy PCI for a total of 7)...but you knew that. How many more slots is it likely for Apple to add? More than double? Really?

Anyway, a dozen new posts have come in since I started writing this, and I keep revising trying to catch up...but you've mostly caught up. :-)

To the rest of the class, I think it's one thing to say that you want more than iMac...which is what I think you're saying, Herb (and others)...and one thing to say that you'd rather eat your arm than buy a PC (I read that earlier today, but forget who said it)...but it's another thing to expect "massive computing power" from Apple relative to anything but iMacs and Apple laptops.

Tim Wilson
Associate Publisher, Editor-in-Chief
Creative COW Magazine
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