pcan
New Member
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.
- 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.
