Any speculation on updated Mac Pros?

[68shelbymustang]

I have decided to buy a new one when the next refresh is announced. It seems the line is in mid product cycle right now.

Summer? fall? Winter?

(bad james taylor impersonation)

[Silencio]

Look at Intel's roadmap for their Xeon line and you'll have an answer. I don't really expect Mac Pro updates within the next, say, 4-6 months.

Buy now if you need now.

[mattkime]

There is usually plenty of speculation but its of little relevance.

[Filliam H. Muffman]

I have not heard anything firm for a couple of months. Maybe Intel is squashing rumors with candy coated NDA's?

Intel has striven to follow a yearly tick-tock product cycle. One year they update the manufacturing process and the next year they update the chip architecture. This year it is the architecture. There was noise about a new CPU due around September. There was also supposed to be a new socket design too but that has disappeared.

With AT&T supposedly canceling vacations around WWDC, I am going to bet that a new iPhone will be the big news in June/July and then a refreshed Mac Pro 6 to 8 weeks later. My guess is that the biggest change will be to use the new DDR3 RAM instead of DDR2. OWC Larry might know.

[OWC Larry]

Big changes to come... we here by September/October intro... but sworn to secrecy. About the only thing can suggest is that the memory for the current model not going to move to the new model.

[Black Landlord]

[quote OWC Larry]Big changes to come... we here by September/October intro... but sworn to secrecy. About the only thing can suggest is that the memory for the current model not going to move to the new model.
Time to lose that form factor.

[AllGold]

[quote Black Landlord]Time to lose that form factor.
I think the form factor for the Mac Pro is fine. Very easy access to drives and RAM and it is amazingly quiet.

If you want a mid-range upgradeable Mac, in between a Mac Pro and mini--and let's face it, everyone except Apple apparently wants such a machine--then yeah, probably should downsize it a bit.

[Black Landlord]

[quote AllGold][quote Black Landlord]Time to lose that form factor.
I think the form factor for the Mac Pro is fine. Very easy access to drives and RAM and it is amazingly quiet.

If you want a mid-range upgradeable Mac, in between a Mac Pro and mini--and let's face it, everyone except Apple apparently wants such a machine--then yeah, probably should downsize it a bit.
Guilty. Just switched from an MDD to an iMac, and I'm hardly a power user, but you know what? I want my frakkin' internal hard drive bays back.

[Carthaigh]

[quote OWC Larry]Big changes to come... we here by September/October intro... but sworn to secrecy. About the only thing can suggest is that the memory for the current model not going to move to the new model.
LOL.