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Re:What Really Happened to Apple’s Airpower by FireBeyond on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @03:39PM (#18018462)
That would have to sting.

At that point the Mac Pro will have been _over five years_ since its last update (December 2013).

Of course Apple is still gleefully charging full price for Ivy Bridge (Xeon v2) processors, not to mention ~$600 for 32GB memory.

That has to sting.

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Re:What Really Happened to Apple’s Airpower by scarface74 on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @03:53PM (#18018561)
Apple admitted they made a design mistake with the Mac Pro. It’s clear that they were originally planning to abandon the Mac Pro and release the iMac Pro to address the high end - along with operating system changes so Macs would work better with external GPUs.

Then they had an about face mid last year.

What I don’t understand is how hard is it for them to make a simple pro Mac in a tower case? I doubt that it takes PC manufacturers two years to design a mid tower high end workstation. Intel is doing most of the engineering and they (Apple) already have a very high performing SSD controller.

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