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Mac Pro .. thoughts?

pcan

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The new Mac Pro is obviously a nice computer. Price is not known yet, and I still hope that it will be realistic; but it misses some features that are standard in a typical production machine for office environements:

- it only has one processor socket; high-end and midrange workstations have two sockets.

- it has no way to internally mount mainstream or RAID storage.

- remote management features such as vPro or IPMI are not mentioned on the marketing materials, they may be missing.

- Apple still does not offer the on site warranty that is standard with any other workstation vendor.

External expansion capabilities are, not unsurprisingly, routed trough a bus that is mainly designed for portable computers. It is a perfect fit for the current Apple product portfolio, and for home office or personal studio requirements. But it is not the ideal production workstation.
 
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