paulm Posted November 26, 2007 Share Posted November 26, 2007 Anyone else here holding out for a new mac pro?? Will sell my imac 24" on the 10th december 2007 but then i don't know what to do until the new mac pros are announced and I don't really want to buy a current one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BassBottom Posted November 27, 2007 Share Posted November 27, 2007 Anyone else here holding out for a new mac pro?? Will sell my imac 24" on the 10th december 2007 but then i don't know what to do until the new mac pros are announced and I don't really want to buy a current one I've been ready to get one for ten months now.When the 8 cores came out, I was so close to getting one but I did not like the benchmark reports. Welcome to the Mac Pro waiting club were you'll find many sharing the same pain you are going through. Well, at least you just started as oppose to my 10 months of hunger. expect to see a new Mac Pro within the next two Months since Intel has new chips available. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dkgross Posted November 27, 2007 Share Posted November 27, 2007 Here's a link to the MacRumors.com buying guide. It's a funky URL that doesn't play nice with links..so I created a different link for it.: http://tinyurl.com/34o98z Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulm Posted November 28, 2007 Author Share Posted November 28, 2007 Yeh I have been looming there too. I have been waiting for a while I haven't just started but it's getting very hard, there is a possibility it will be before xmas if not then it looks like January '08 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maeghan Posted November 30, 2007 Share Posted November 30, 2007 Yeah ... count me in the club, i've been waiting to get mine now sense about April ... I sold my FW800 G4 in early April... thought i could make-do with my MacBook for the time being but went nutz with wires so i bought a 1.66 mac mini to hold me over. The Mini does it job, but I have not asked too too much of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaytranzmit Posted December 1, 2007 Share Posted December 1, 2007 I think they'll be around January now. Keep thinking they might bring out a Black Macpro, I'd be quite happy if they did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulm Posted January 2, 2008 Author Share Posted January 2, 2008 SO! What are chances of seeing a new/updated mac pro on the 15th at MacWorld? *Drops to his kness!!! ....Please!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inmazevo Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 SO! What are chances of seeing a new/updated mac pro on the 15th at MacWorld? *Drops to his kness!!! ....Please!!!!!!!! Well, Penryns are out, and Apple bought SOME. I'm on schedule for one in March, and I'm sure they'll be out by then. - zevo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulm Posted January 2, 2008 Author Share Posted January 2, 2008 SO! What are chances of seeing a new/updated mac pro on the 15th at MacWorld? *Drops to his kness!!! ....Please!!!!!!!! Well, Penryns are out, and Apple bought SOME. I'm on schedule for one in March, and I'm sure they'll be out by then. - zevo Well im on schedule for one NOW! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inmazevo Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 Hehehe. Patience, patience. They'll get here. They're definitely coming, and more likely sooner than later, since the Mac Pro line is hopelessly out of date, pricing-wise, from anything else on the market, IMHO. Chips are two generations old on all but the 8-core, and a generation old with that, and they've (the chips) dropped price twice since the original Mac Pro release, with no price adjustment on the Apple side. Whatever you do, don't buy one today. - zevo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxedwards Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 hey that's a great link dkgross! thanks 8) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BassBottom Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 I tortured myself by not buying the Clovertown 8 core Mac Pro to wait for the Penryn based Mac Pro. The year 2007 have been a slow year for me because of this wait. I cant wait any longer they must come out with it at Macworld Expo. I was so sure that Apple would release new Penryn based Mac Pros on Jan 15th but I'm a little baffled of why Apple have not reduced the prices on their current Mac Pros. They've been riding on these prices for over a year now. So this might mean that they are not ready to release a new Mac Pro or the new Mac Pros might have a pretty hefty price tag on them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inmazevo Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 The only thing that the price of the Mac Pro means is that Apple doesn't drop prices on existing machines (barring a major pricing screw up like the iPhone). I actually think the next Mac Pro line will be almost entirely 8-core machines, with maybe the lowest model being a quad. And I think the price line will stay the same, or drop by 10% or so at each level: $1999, $2499, $2999 & $3500. Probably something like that. Better save your money, 'cause they ain't cheap, are they? But, frankly, if I can get an 8-core machine for $2500, that's pretty sweet. I'll ditch every other home machine I have, and run OS X, Windows, and Linux from one machine... 64bit and flying. That's $800 per machine, if you look at it that way, which is more than competitive. Just have to beef up the memory to something respectable... like 8GB to start with. I'm going to be SO broke. - zevo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dkgross Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 haha...that's what I said when I bought my macBook Pro..and I STILL haven't gotten rid of my old PC (hell..all I do with it is Quicken and some stock market crap anyway..) I'm gonna squeeze as much life out of my Quad G5 as I possibly can. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clonewar Posted January 4, 2008 Share Posted January 4, 2008 Count me in on the Mac Pro waiting club. The rumor sites are all pretty much expecting a Macworld release, and I'm counting the days until the 15th. Hopfully it will be part of Jobs' keynote and will go on sale immediately. (did I mention that I'm counting the days?) It really wouldn't make sense to go past Macworld without an update. When the Mac Pro was first released it was a very good price (compared to buying the parts from Newegg and building the equivilent PC). Now its extremely overpriced, and its obvious that Intel has artificially kept the price of the Woodcrest Xeons inflated for Apple. Think about this: When the Mac Pro was first released a 2.66 ghz dual core Woodcrest Xeon (the Mac Pro has two) was over $1000. Right now a 2.66 quad core Harpertown (Penryn) Xeon goes for $529 at Newegg. It will be interesting to see what the price point of the new line is. NAMM starts later that week also......what a week! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dkgross Posted January 4, 2008 Share Posted January 4, 2008 keep an eye out here: http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted January 4, 2008 Share Posted January 4, 2008 I'm a Mac Pro waiter too! OOooooh I can't wait. My dual 1.8GHz G5 is showing its age with Logic 8. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dkgross Posted January 4, 2008 Share Posted January 4, 2008 uh..yeah David...time for a new box Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sah5150 Posted January 13, 2008 Share Posted January 13, 2008 Well... looks like the new ones are in fellers! WhooHoo! New Mac Pros!!! Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PBenz Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 Well, my friends, don't get too excited. My new Mac Pro arrived on Fri and I am having major issues. I'm a heavy UAudio user, and I couldn't wait to get away from the AMD-8131 PCI chipset that is supposedly problematic with the UAD-1 cards. I am having more issues with the new computer than I ever had with the dual G5. In fact, it's completely unusable at the moment. I can't even play back a project with 5 tracks of audio and a handful of UAudio plugins. See my post on the UAudio forum for more info. I am deeply concerned. This is the exact opposite of my expectations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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