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Re:Apple’s New Mac Pro to Be Made in Texas by jonknee on Monday September 23, 2019 @12:24PM (#21050393)
I mean it has to have been all but closed for years right? The only thing they ever made was a giant flop that never got a meaningful update. What could they possibly have been making for the last several years?
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Re:Apple’s New Mac Pro to Be Made in Texas by Despegar on Monday September 23, 2019 @12:28PM (#21050438)
The old Mac Pro was never updated, but they never stopped production of them.
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Re:Apple’s New Mac Pro to Be Made in Texas by jonknee on Monday September 23, 2019 @12:39PM (#21050593)
Yes, my point is how many units could they possibly be making. Even when it was new it barely sold, how many units could they be making today? Dozens a month?
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Re:Apple’s New Mac Pro to Be Made in Texas by Vomzor on Monday September 23, 2019 @07:55PM (#21055060)
Macstadium buys hundreds of them every month.

https://mobile.twitter.com/brianstucki/status/11334877389156...

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Re:Apple’s New Mac Pro to Be Made in Texas by cerberusss on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @01:17AM (#21056787)
Fascinating thread with pictures, thanks man!
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Re:Apple’s New Mac Pro to Be Made in Texas by mdorazio on Monday September 23, 2019 @02:01PM (#21051588)
Probably more like a few hundred a month. But still, I can't imagine it employing many people at all unless they also used for overflow assembly or something.
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Re:Apple’s New Mac Pro to Be Made in Texas by veryobviously on Monday September 23, 2019 @01:15PM (#21050995)
Do you have a reference for that? I assume they sold about as well as past MacPros, which would also be much smaller volume than iMacs and MacBooks.
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Re:Apple’s New Mac Pro to Be Made in Texas by mceachen on Monday September 23, 2019 @01:52PM (#21051467)
Anecdotally, I've literally never seen a trash-can Mac pro outside an Apple store (and I even have friends that work at Apple).

That a huge change from a decade or more ago, when Mac pro towers were under every desk on designer teams and ubiquitous at Mac developer shops. The MBP laptops just didn't have enough grunt at the time.

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