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to those of you who put lower price, good luck. I honestly would love to see more in the way of Hard Drive expandability. Something like an XRAID on the front.
It says “What feature do you most want”, not “What feature do you most want, that could actually happen”. People want lower prices, dude. At least, they're more probable than X-RAID. O.o
What I want to see in the 09 mac pros??....
......a freakin TABLET thats what! mactouch ftw!!!
How would you put a tablet in a Mac Pro?
All Apple would have to do is add a screen onto the side of the MacPro.
Hmmm... Multi-touch FCP-editing. A slightly redesigned MacPro and no one would have any idea where the machine is... until they looked behind the monitor. Brilliant.
... and I'm only half-serious.
Turn the Minimac into a Gaming console....!!!!
Nothing, I just bought the damn thing recently!
SLI and MAC OS 10.6
Not going to buy one anyway, so a new case would at least be interesting.
MacTablet, preview Snowypard (released WWDC'09), iLife'09, revamped Cinema Displays, Appleized Navigation Software for iPhone, Wimax card for your Macs
Drop in prices in all products by 10%. Update Apple TV renamed into MyHome, Discontinuing Mac mini, intro of the next iMac with removable iTablet Screen - smaller footprint 13" display $999.
nething else.... r u sure??? new CEO maybe? new logo or something???
um i r speshal
latest nvidia graphics please!!!
Just optional Blu Ray, 8 or 2x8 Core i7's, beefed up nVidia graphics, eSATA front and back, FireWire 3200 + 800 front and back, updated case design for the same price start-points.
The price is GOOD as it is, just give us more bang for our buck Steve
I would like to see . . .
1. Latest Nvidia Graphics - not the 9800
2. 2 x 8 core i7 Processors
3. Raid card that works with Bootcamp as well as Mac osx - come on Apple!
4. eSata - should have been on the last model.
5. Firewire 3200
6. Unbufferred Ram
That would truely be a universal Workstation/ gaming machine (for those who want). What is the use of all these drive bays in a workstation that cannot raid out of the box in Bootcamp? Graphics pros don't always have the option in using Mac software only.
Thanks in advance Steve!
A high end sound card. Asus or Auzentech or something that has Windows compatibility as well as Mac compatibility
IN THE NAME OF ALL THAT IS HOLY PLEASE GIVE ME A MATTE SCREEN OPTION!!!
I cant go back to PC I just cant
There is a Matte screen option on the Mac Pros - they're called Cinema displays. Apart from the 24" made for laptops, matte screens are going nowhere on these forever.
I just want to see all of that list. That's all. Mostly Blu Ray
Nvidia only gives good game performance, just read the barefeats articles. I want a HD 5870 X2 in there; next gen, not last years leftovers. And firewire, for my fw camera, which I bought a couple of weeks ago (Canon hv30 needs firewire for videocapture)
Any new mac will have last years leftovers in hardware, that's just the way it goes. The focus of Apple is to target those users who don't care (understand) the benefit of the latest hardware hence the insanely long wait for a Pro update. The current iMac has been on the shelves for over 6 months and yet that is shorter than the average update cycle for it. 6 months without a hardware refresh should not be tolerated much less over a year for the pro.
Really? Have you seen the new Macbook/Macbook Pro's they have the latest mobile graphics available.
I'm not gamer, so I have different needs than most of you. As a guy who runs a video production shop that does a lot of high-def work, here's what I want:
Give me more fast, efficient, fault-tolerant internal storage. More gigabit ethernet ports. More, faster cores. More RAM capacity. Less power consumption (as I don't need tons of heat bleeding into my editing stations) and amazingly quiet fans (as I don't need noise in my editing rooms.)
Don't bother adding junk ports that can only be used to attach to weird external equipment that will merely add to the complexity and heat and noise footprints. Give me dual fibrechannel before eSata - infinitely more useful in a production studio.
I don't need bluray, but feel free to add it if it doesn't cost me any more cash.
Oh, 10 Gbit ethernet would be nice too... if I only had a 10 Gbit network infrastructure...
You're not going to get faster processors, less heat and quieter fans at the same time. It just isn't possible. And do you really need more than 32 GB of RAM? No one, not even a video producer such as yourself, does. I'm surprised you didn't mention that you need more than 4 TB of storage, considering you work with hi-def video.
larger fans are more quiet. Fibrechannel is a great means for connecting to fast remote arrays with a capacity far higher than 4 TB. More cores don't add more heat until I fire off a process that needs them, such as re encoding. More internal storage is great for loading up a complete projectly locally. Glad I could help you understand what real pros need.
eSATA's port and interface looks like an afterthought. The connection is SO flimsy. Heck internal SATA have a flimsy connection too. So many times I've seen people bring in computers to the shop with broken ports on the hard disk or bent up eSATA ports.
It really is one of the worst physical connections out there.
I put i7 processors, but I hope they can make the case a bit shorter so it can fit in a 19" rack.
Apple expects people who want to rack-mount their machines to get xserves, not Mac Pros.
Here is what I would like:
I want to see someone build a system with 1 TB of DDR3 memory and benchmark that bad boy.
The obvious needed features from the list above are:
The bigger problem is actually on the software side. Software is not properly built to use multicore systems. It's not until that day comes that the power of these systems will actually be used to their full potential. Right now have muscle cars to go to the corner store when a Honda will do, or walking for that matter.