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- Dec 31, 201990% CONFIDENCEfrom the source
'Constant Negativity' From Pro Users Led Apple to Develop Modular Mac Pro, Which May Not Ship Until 2019
- In April 2017 Apple executives announced work on an entirely revamped high-end modular Mac Pro, with no release date beyond "after 2017"[1]
- OSnews' Thom Holwerda, citing sources, said negative reaction to the Touch Bar MacBook Pro, a surge of orders for older MacBook Pros, the LG 5K display and "constant negativity" from pros led Apple to double down on professional users[1]
- Development reportedly began only weeks earlier, so Holwerda expected late 2018 at the earliest and more likely early 2019[1]
- On 5 April 2018 Apple's Tom Boger confirmed "the Mac Pro is a 2019 product", and a Pro Workflow Team led by John Ternus was formed[4]
- The new Mac Pro took orders from 10 December 2019 at $5,999, with the Pro Display XDR extra at $4,999, assembled in Austin, Texas[2]
Notable features
- Apple said the modular design allows regular hardware updates, VR and high-end cinema editing support, and an Apple-branded pro display[1]
- Unveiled on 3 June 2019, the Mac Pro has Xeon processors with up to 28 cores and 64 PCI Express lanes, a six-channel memory architecture with 12 DIMM slots for up to 1.5TB of memory, and eight PCI Express slots, twice the previous Mac Pro tower[3]
- Graphics use the Apple MPX Module, with Thunderbolt integration and over 500W of power; options run from the Radeon Pro 580X to two Radeon Pro Vega II Duo modules for 56 teraflops and 128GB of video memory[3]
- The Afterburner accelerator card uses a programmable ASIC decoding up to 6.3 billion pixels per second, enough for three streams of 8K ProRes RAW or 12 streams of 4K ProRes RAW in real time[3]
- The design is a stainless-steel space frame with a lift-off aluminum housing for 360-degree access, a lattice pattern for airflow and three fans, with a rack-mount version planned[3]
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- [1]90%macrumors.com/2017/04/06/mac-pro-may-not-ship-until-2019macrumors.com· Posted Jun 21, 2017· Starts Dec 31, 2019 ✓· 2% of score
Happened as dated, per macrumors.com: "…Develop Modular Mac Pro, Which May Not Ship Until 2019 Apple[3] executives this week made an unusual a…"
- [2]80%Apple's Mac Pro will be available to order Dec. 10cnbc.com· Published Dec 9, 2019· 62% of score
CNBC's own headline states the Mac Pro 'will be available to order Dec. 10' [2019], landing right at the pin's stored December 31, 2019/January 1, 2020 date.
- [3]92%Apple unveils powerful, all-new Mac Pro and groundbreaking Pro Display XDR - Appleapple.com· Published Jun 3, 2019· 30% of score
Apple's June 2019 press release gives the Mac Pro's "Xeon processors up to 28 cores", 1.5TB memory, eight PCIe slots, MPX Modules, Afterburner card and stainless-steel space frame.
- [4]75%Apple modular Mac Pro launch coming in 2019, new engineering group formed to guarantee future of hardwareappleinsider.com· Published Apr 5, 2018· 6% of score
AppleInsider quotes Apple's[3] Tom Boger stating in April 2018 that 'the Mac Pro is a 2019 product. It's not something for this year,' anticipating by about 20 months the pin's stored date, which matches when the modular Mac Pro actually shipped.
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