Items tagged with Mac Pro
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Thiago Trevisan - Mon, Sep 16, 2024
Apple recently held its yearly iPhone event, where it introduced the world to the iPhone 16. Its next important product family, the Mac lineup, is also slated for an update sometime this fall. According to Mark Gurman at Bloomberg, Apple...
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Tim Sweezy - Tue, Jun 06, 2023
Apple announced a lot of new tech coming to its lineup at its WWDC 2023 event yesterday, including the much-awaited MacBook Air 15-inch version, a new Mac Studio, and an updated Mac Pro. Both the Mac Studio and Mac Pro will be upgradeable...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Jul 28, 2021
Apple is eager to leave Intel behind as the supplier of CPUs for its Mac lineup, but bear in mind that this transition to using Arm-based silicon based on custom home brewed designs in place of Intel's x86 CPUs is not an overnight...
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Brandon Hill - Mon, Dec 07, 2020
We've already seen that Apple means business with its custom Arm-based M1 processors, which launched last month with new Mac mini, MacBook Air, and MacBook Pro models. The M1 is a highly integrated SoC that includes an 8-core CPU (4...
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Brandon Hill - Tue, Dec 17, 2019
The folks over at iFixit were able to get their hands on Apple's all-new Mac Pro, which marks a substantial upgrade over its trash can-styled predecessor. While plenty of jokes have been made in reference to its cheese grater exterior...
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Brandon Hill - Wed, Dec 11, 2019
The internet made a mockery of Apple's new Pro Display XDR display mere minutes after it was announced. The first hits came after the display's $4,999 price tag was revealed. Then the guffaws grew louder once Apple revealed that the...
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Brittany Goetting - Thu, Sep 26, 2019
What do Hollywood, Apple users, and Google Chrome share in common? A wave of unbootable MacBooks and Mac Pros. A Google Keystone update was able to damage certain Mac files and shut the affected devices down unexpectedly.
This past...
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Dave Altavilla, Brandon Hill - Thu, Jun 20, 2019
When Apple announced its replacement for the “trash can” Mac Pro, the Mac community collectively lost their minds. The previous generation Mac Pro really was hampered due to thermal constraints, which meant that Apple could never really...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Jun 11, 2019
Forget about the Mac Pro's resemblance to a cheese grater and ignore the price tag for a moment. From a pure hardware standpoint, Apple's latest iteration of the Mac Pro is an impressive collection of hardware, boasting an Intel Xeon...
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Shane McGlaun - Mon, Jun 10, 2019
When Apple announced its new Mac Pro desktop computer earlier this month, the machine definitely impressed with its power Intel 28-core Xeon processors and Radeon Pro Vega II graphics. Apple gave up most of the details on the machine but...
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Brandon Hill - Tue, Jun 04, 2019
Yesterday, Apple announced its brand-new Mac Pro, which was a long-awaited redesign of its aging and trash can-esque predecessor. While the professional rig is no doubt beastly with up to a 28-core Intel Xeon processor and 1.5TB of system...
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Brandon Hill - Mon, Jun 03, 2019
After the somewhat disappointing last-generation "trash can" Mac Pro, Apple is back at it again with what is no doubt a knockout performance beast. The all-new Mac Pro has been redesigned from the ground-up and is available in a more...
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Brandon Hill - Thu, Apr 05, 2018
Apple's "trash can" Mac Pro was heralded as a remarkable achievement in design and performance [by Apple] when it was first announced back in 2013. However, the machine was neglected by Apple, and was hardly updated during its lifecycle. In fact, Apple made the rare admission that the design...
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Chris Goetting - Sun, Apr 09, 2017
As if we needed more examples to demonstrate how outdated Apple’s current Mac Pro line is, a $1500 USD AMD Ryzen R7 1700 powered PC recently smoked a loaded $5500 Mac Pro in a Photoshop benchmark.
Tech Guy posted the showdown to his...
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Brandon Hill - Thu, Apr 06, 2017
With the launch of the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti last month, NVIDIA for the most part surpassed the performance of the Pascal-based Titan X while undercutting the graphics card’s price point by hundreds. Unfortunately for the GTX 1080 Ti, its...
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Brandon Hill - Tue, Apr 04, 2017
Apple this week has done two uncharacteristic things for the company: it is apologizing for missteps in its product design/rollout and it is actually pre-announcing upcoming products. Some of those products are at least a year away from...
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Brandon Hill - Wed, Mar 16, 2016
If you’re hip to pre-built, small-form factor gaming systems, MSI is now shipping quite a whopper of a PC which it claims is the world’s smallest gaming tower. The Vortex measures just 10.5 inches tall and aims straight for the jugular...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Feb 08, 2016
Following a rash of user complaints over various video issues, Apple is launching a Repair Extension Program for late 2013 Mac Pro systems manufactured between February 8, 2015, and April 11, 2015. The issue with 2013 Mac Pro models...
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Joel Hruska - Fri, Nov 14, 2014
One of the disadvantages to buying an Apple system is that it generally means less upgradeability and flexibility than a system from a traditional PC OEM. Over the last few years, Apple has introduced features and adopted standards that...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Apr 23, 2014
Microsoft could take a few lessons from BOXX in how to poke fun at the competition in a tactful yet hilarious manner. BOXX, which builds high-end workstations and rendering systems for a variety of applications -- film and television, visual effects, game development, simulation, government...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Dec 31, 2013
You're not bringing home a Mac Pro for less than three large, and when spending that much on a computer, the expectation is that it will work and work well for a long time to come. Fair enough, but eventually you'll either want or need to...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Dec 24, 2013
You're not bringing home one of Apple's newly released Mac Pro systems without spending a small fortune -- pricing starts at $2,999 for a quad-core model and $3,999 for a 6-core foundation, both of which are rocking dual graphics cards...
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