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iOS 7 software release
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You'll have to complain to this designer from Apple. He's the person behind the UI changes in iOS 7.
Personally, I have no problems with the UI changes in iOS 7. It still looks better than the tiles in Windows phones. Then again, I have never owned an Apple product.
You'll have to complain to this designer from Apple. He's the person behind the UI changes in iOS 7.
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He looks lost without steve jobs around. The new mac computer loos hedious. Seems like he is overrated.
He is nothing but an arrogant POM,,,guess the brits are out to destroy a USA company from the inside,,just my rants lah..anyway,,POMs are overrated. The reason y the UK still exist cos its living off the benefits from its former colonies.
You'll have to complain to this designer from Apple. He's the person behind the UI changes in iOS 7.
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He looks lost without steve jobs around. The new mac computer loos hedious. Seems like he is overrated.
Apple’s new Mac Pro: Is this the workstation we’ve all been waiting for?
In 2010, Apple released a new Mac Pro built on Intel’s then-new quad-core Gulftown CPU. In 2012, it bumped that system up one grade, offering hexa-core processors. Both systems were based on Intel’s 32nm Westmere architecture, which means they lacked all the features introduced since Sandy Bridge, including AES-NI, AVX, and PCIe 3.0. Mac users were rather unhappy with this non-update a year ago, prompting Tim Cook to reassure everyone that a new system was coming in 2013.
Now we’ve seen that system and it’s dramatically different than anything Apple — or anyone — has done before in this space.
Hardware specifications
Apple is playing coy with exact specifications, but we can infer quite a bit from the figures the company has announced to date. The current top-end chip in the Mac Pro is the X5675. According to Intel, the new Mac Pro offers “up to 2x” the FLOPs performance of its predecessor. The Westmere chips currently used in the Mac Pro are capable of eight single-precision and four double-precision FLOPs per cycle. Sandy and Ivy Bridge, in contrast, can perform 16 SP and eight DP. Haswell doubled that again, up to 32 SP and 16 DP per cycle.
If the new Mac Pro is using Haswell, in other words, Apple could claim a 4x increase rather than a 2x jump.
The other clue is in the chipset identification. Apple’s website states that the system uses “the new-generation Xeon E5 chipset.” There’s no such thing as the “E5 chipset,” but there is a C600 chipset that supports the E5 family. It’s not a perfect match, given that Apple is advertising PCI-Express 3.0, while the C600 only officially offers 2.0, but Intel’s messaging is unclear on this point. Diagrams for the C222 – C226 chipsets point to PCIe 3.0 capability, even though the official Intel database shows those products as limited to PCIe 3.0.
Based on what we know right now, however, it looks as though the new Mac Pro is Ivy Bridge, not Haswell.
Other features are more current. The move to PCIe-based Flash storage will boost storage performance well above what even SATA 6G offers and memory bandwidth is up to 60GB/s across four channels. Twin graphics cards from AMD anchor the GPU side of the equation. Based on the quoted specs (7TFLOP total GPU power, 6GB of VRAM), it’s not clear which cards these are. If that 6GB of VRAM is per-GPU, AMD’s top-end W9000 is the best candidate, though it would normally offer 8TFLOP of performance, rather than 6TFLOP.
If the VRAM is being quoted in total, it implies AMD has done a custom design for Apple. None of AMD’s current FirePro’s offer 3.5TFLOP of single-precision floating point and just 3GB of RAM per card. Regardless, that’s more than enough GPU power to handle heavy rendering tasks.
Mac Pro system design
The case’s exterior is, in a word, interesting. It’s by far the smallest workstation we’ve ever seen. It’s 9.9 inches tall, 6.6 inches wide and, as Apple notes, is more than small enough to sit on your desk. The entire system is cooled by a single impeller and each of the major components makes direct contact with a large, triangular heatsink Apple calls the “thermal core.” It’s an interesting design and I don’t doubt the company’s claims that it’s quiet and easy to cool.
The Mac Pro’s thermal core interior
It also looks like a trashcan.
I don’t mean that as a nasty dig at Apple. From the diagrams and discussion of the product, it’s clear that they’ve poured a great deal of time and effort into building a sophisticated cooling system and taken a new approach to system integration. It’s absolutely possible that the new Mac Pro will be a mind-blowing experience with great thermals and a ton of horsepower.
But it still looks like a trashcan.
The least-expandable Mac Pro ever
The new reliance on Thunderbolt may be troubling for anyone who wasn’t planning on upgrading all of their peripherals. Ironically, Apple claims that this is “Expansion, vastly expanded.” That’s incorrect; this is the least expandable Mac Pro in decades. It may offer more Thunderbolt connectivity than any system ever has, but as far as compatibility with current-generation hardware, it’d be hard to find a workstation less expandable than this one.
If you own an expansion card, period, this isn’t the system for you. That’s going to be a show-stopper for anyone who depended on a specific card for video capture, output, or esoteric compatibility with a different system. Apple is touting Thunderbolt 2.0 capability, but TB 2.0 just adjusts bandwidth ratios from TB 1.0 — it doesn’t add any additional speed. That’s not a bad thing given that the interface is plenty fast already, but TB is still limited to an x4 PCIe 2.0 electrical connection. Fast? Yes — but not as fast as an a dedicated PCIe 2.0/3.0 dedicated slot.
Users with multiple displays that don’t run on Thunderbolt will need to buy adapters. If you currently have an internal set of hard drives, that’s too bad — you’ll be moving them to external cages or buying new solutions if you want to use them in the Mac Pro. USB 3.0 support is baked in — but only four ports. Need more than four ports? Too bad.
While we’re glad to see AMD getting some graphics love, there’s no Nvidia option whatsoever, despite the fact that NV has been the go-to partner for a lot of GPU acceleration in professional software over the past five years.
If you’re gearing up to buy a whole new set of hardware, the Mac Pro might be great. If you wanted to upgrade to a Mac Pro but keep existing hardware, the new Mac Pro makes that extremely difficult. Current Mac Pro users who depend on dedicated expansion cards, internal drive bays, USB ports, or have multiple monitors hooked up via DVI, DP, or HDMI may find themselves locked out of upgrading until they can afford to buy all new peripheral devices (or a bevy of converters). Apple suggests that users who need PCI/PCIe slots should be a Thunderbolt-to-PCIe external chassis, for example.
A lesson in form over function
If you can get over the wastepaper basket motif, the new form is innovative. The impeller, if it works as advertised, should lead to a great, quiet cooling system. The degree of motherboard integration is impressive.
And yet, none of that matters if you don’t own the hardware Apple has apparently decided you must have to make this system sing. Consumers don’t really care if the 2013 Macbook uses an AMD graphics card, the 2014 uses Nvidia, and the 2015 uses Intel, so long as performance is good and general compatibility is maintained. Professional users that invest thousands of dollars into specific software packages or have particular requirements to meet for customers, however, do care. Historically, Nvidia has had an edge on AMD when it comes to professional graphics work and 3D rendering performance. Maybe Apple intends to help Team Red change that, but that’s not helpful to would-be customers who no longer have an Nvidia option.
Apple genuinely doesn’t seem to have considered how cluttered the system will look if you have to run a TB-to-PCIe chassis, a USB port multiplier, and multiple external drives. Past a certain point, the svelte iCan doesn’t reduce clutter, but adds to it.
High-end Apple users have complained for years that the company’s focus on iOS and consumer hardware has hurt the businesses where it cut its teeth over the past two decades. This system seems unlikely to change that.
In 2010, Apple released a new Mac Pro built on Intel’s then-new quad-core Gulftown CPU. In 2012, it bumped that system up one grade, offering hexa-core processors. Both systems were based on Intel’s 32nm Westmere architecture, which means they lacked all the features introduced since Sandy Bridge, including AES-NI, AVX, and PCIe 3.0. Mac users were rather unhappy with this non-update a year ago, prompting Tim Cook to reassure everyone that a new system was coming in 2013.
Now we’ve seen that system and it’s dramatically different than anything Apple — or anyone — has done before in this space.
Hardware specifications
Apple is playing coy with exact specifications, but we can infer quite a bit from the figures the company has announced to date. The current top-end chip in the Mac Pro is the X5675. According to Intel, the new Mac Pro offers “up to 2x” the FLOPs performance of its predecessor. The Westmere chips currently used in the Mac Pro are capable of eight single-precision and four double-precision FLOPs per cycle. Sandy and Ivy Bridge, in contrast, can perform 16 SP and eight DP. Haswell doubled that again, up to 32 SP and 16 DP per cycle.
If the new Mac Pro is using Haswell, in other words, Apple could claim a 4x increase rather than a 2x jump.
The other clue is in the chipset identification. Apple’s website states that the system uses “the new-generation Xeon E5 chipset.” There’s no such thing as the “E5 chipset,” but there is a C600 chipset that supports the E5 family. It’s not a perfect match, given that Apple is advertising PCI-Express 3.0, while the C600 only officially offers 2.0, but Intel’s messaging is unclear on this point. Diagrams for the C222 – C226 chipsets point to PCIe 3.0 capability, even though the official Intel database shows those products as limited to PCIe 3.0.
Based on what we know right now, however, it looks as though the new Mac Pro is Ivy Bridge, not Haswell.
Other features are more current. The move to PCIe-based Flash storage will boost storage performance well above what even SATA 6G offers and memory bandwidth is up to 60GB/s across four channels. Twin graphics cards from AMD anchor the GPU side of the equation. Based on the quoted specs (7TFLOP total GPU power, 6GB of VRAM), it’s not clear which cards these are. If that 6GB of VRAM is per-GPU, AMD’s top-end W9000 is the best candidate, though it would normally offer 8TFLOP of performance, rather than 6TFLOP.
If the VRAM is being quoted in total, it implies AMD has done a custom design for Apple. None of AMD’s current FirePro’s offer 3.5TFLOP of single-precision floating point and just 3GB of RAM per card. Regardless, that’s more than enough GPU power to handle heavy rendering tasks.
Mac Pro system design
The case’s exterior is, in a word, interesting. It’s by far the smallest workstation we’ve ever seen. It’s 9.9 inches tall, 6.6 inches wide and, as Apple notes, is more than small enough to sit on your desk. The entire system is cooled by a single impeller and each of the major components makes direct contact with a large, triangular heatsink Apple calls the “thermal core.” It’s an interesting design and I don’t doubt the company’s claims that it’s quiet and easy to cool.
The Mac Pro’s thermal core interior
It also looks like a trashcan.
I don’t mean that as a nasty dig at Apple. From the diagrams and discussion of the product, it’s clear that they’ve poured a great deal of time and effort into building a sophisticated cooling system and taken a new approach to system integration. It’s absolutely possible that the new Mac Pro will be a mind-blowing experience with great thermals and a ton of horsepower.
But it still looks like a trashcan.
The least-expandable Mac Pro ever
The new reliance on Thunderbolt may be troubling for anyone who wasn’t planning on upgrading all of their peripherals. Ironically, Apple claims that this is “Expansion, vastly expanded.” That’s incorrect; this is the least expandable Mac Pro in decades. It may offer more Thunderbolt connectivity than any system ever has, but as far as compatibility with current-generation hardware, it’d be hard to find a workstation less expandable than this one.
If you own an expansion card, period, this isn’t the system for you. That’s going to be a show-stopper for anyone who depended on a specific card for video capture, output, or esoteric compatibility with a different system. Apple is touting Thunderbolt 2.0 capability, but TB 2.0 just adjusts bandwidth ratios from TB 1.0 — it doesn’t add any additional speed. That’s not a bad thing given that the interface is plenty fast already, but TB is still limited to an x4 PCIe 2.0 electrical connection. Fast? Yes — but not as fast as an a dedicated PCIe 2.0/3.0 dedicated slot.
Users with multiple displays that don’t run on Thunderbolt will need to buy adapters. If you currently have an internal set of hard drives, that’s too bad — you’ll be moving them to external cages or buying new solutions if you want to use them in the Mac Pro. USB 3.0 support is baked in — but only four ports. Need more than four ports? Too bad.
While we’re glad to see AMD getting some graphics love, there’s no Nvidia option whatsoever, despite the fact that NV has been the go-to partner for a lot of GPU acceleration in professional software over the past five years.
If you’re gearing up to buy a whole new set of hardware, the Mac Pro might be great. If you wanted to upgrade to a Mac Pro but keep existing hardware, the new Mac Pro makes that extremely difficult. Current Mac Pro users who depend on dedicated expansion cards, internal drive bays, USB ports, or have multiple monitors hooked up via DVI, DP, or HDMI may find themselves locked out of upgrading until they can afford to buy all new peripheral devices (or a bevy of converters). Apple suggests that users who need PCI/PCIe slots should be a Thunderbolt-to-PCIe external chassis, for example.
A lesson in form over function
If you can get over the wastepaper basket motif, the new form is innovative. The impeller, if it works as advertised, should lead to a great, quiet cooling system. The degree of motherboard integration is impressive.
And yet, none of that matters if you don’t own the hardware Apple has apparently decided you must have to make this system sing. Consumers don’t really care if the 2013 Macbook uses an AMD graphics card, the 2014 uses Nvidia, and the 2015 uses Intel, so long as performance is good and general compatibility is maintained. Professional users that invest thousands of dollars into specific software packages or have particular requirements to meet for customers, however, do care. Historically, Nvidia has had an edge on AMD when it comes to professional graphics work and 3D rendering performance. Maybe Apple intends to help Team Red change that, but that’s not helpful to would-be customers who no longer have an Nvidia option.
Apple genuinely doesn’t seem to have considered how cluttered the system will look if you have to run a TB-to-PCIe chassis, a USB port multiplier, and multiple external drives. Past a certain point, the svelte iCan doesn’t reduce clutter, but adds to it.
High-end Apple users have complained for years that the company’s focus on iOS and consumer hardware has hurt the businesses where it cut its teeth over the past two decades. This system seems unlikely to change that.
New Mac Pro's radical design draws admiration, criticism via Photoshop
By Kevin Bostic
Apple's ultra-minimalist design for the new Mac Pro may have drawn "oohs" and "aahs" from admirers, but that hasn't stopped the Internet from sending up the powerful new desktop in a number of amusing manipulated images.
Revealed on Monday as part of the Worldwide Developer Conference keynote, the Mac Pro wowed attendees and viewers watching online with its spare, cylindrical look. The bold design drew immediate praise from many tech commentators, who had been awaiting a refresh of Apple's most powerful desktop for some time.
The Independent called the new workstation "a bombshell of beautiful design and raw power," noting that the genius of the new look isn't just skin deep: that cylindrical shape works to improve airflow across components, cooling the device without the need for multiple heat-sinks.
In something of a backhanded compliment, CNN called the new Mac "the beautiful new Apple computer most people won't buy". The same article, though, said the Pro was "a design marvel... that bears little resemblance to computers as we've traditionally imagined them.
Even Gizmodo — always cautious in its Apple praise since a dust-up with the iPhone maker three years ago — hailed the "brilliant insanity" behind its design, saying it was the type of design only a company like Apple could produce.
Notably, most reports made reference to Apple marketing chief Phillip Schiller's now famous on-stage utterance in defense of the power of Apple's design. "Can't innovate anymore, my ass," Schiller quipped after revealing the new form factor.
And while the tech press and design aficionados seem to have fallen in love, the always irreverent Internet has already provided the requisite snark and mockery to perhaps bring the discussion back down to earth. Shortly after its unveiling, a wave of Tumblrs and forum threads riffed on the new Pro's design, turning it into a number of other things.
For the benefit of our readers, of course, AppleInsider has assembled a collection of the best of these Pro parodies.
Risible or remarkable, the new Pro's design is innovative, but perhaps not entirely unprecedented. Amazon Japan sells a trashcan that bears more than a passing resemblance to Apple's powerful new desktop.
In a savvy bit of marketing, the company tweeted a warning that the trash can — which sells for roughly $36.50 — was not Apple's newly announced computer. That tweet was retweeted more than 13,500 times, with 3,026 favorites, some of which may very well have led to a few sales.
Finally, keen eyes at The Mac Observer have noted the new Mac Pro's similarity to the cylindrical entrance of Apple's Shanghai retail store. The diminutive desktop also looks somewhat like a scaled-down Cray I supercomputer. The Observer post notes that Cray I buyers would have paid $8.8 million back in 1976 for its 160 megaflops (floating operations per second) of power, whereas the Mac Pro will cost in the thousands of dollars, delivering 7.5 teraflops of computational power, about 47,000 times faster.
By Kevin Bostic
Apple's ultra-minimalist design for the new Mac Pro may have drawn "oohs" and "aahs" from admirers, but that hasn't stopped the Internet from sending up the powerful new desktop in a number of amusing manipulated images.
Revealed on Monday as part of the Worldwide Developer Conference keynote, the Mac Pro wowed attendees and viewers watching online with its spare, cylindrical look. The bold design drew immediate praise from many tech commentators, who had been awaiting a refresh of Apple's most powerful desktop for some time.
The Independent called the new workstation "a bombshell of beautiful design and raw power," noting that the genius of the new look isn't just skin deep: that cylindrical shape works to improve airflow across components, cooling the device without the need for multiple heat-sinks.
In something of a backhanded compliment, CNN called the new Mac "the beautiful new Apple computer most people won't buy". The same article, though, said the Pro was "a design marvel... that bears little resemblance to computers as we've traditionally imagined them.
Even Gizmodo — always cautious in its Apple praise since a dust-up with the iPhone maker three years ago — hailed the "brilliant insanity" behind its design, saying it was the type of design only a company like Apple could produce.
Notably, most reports made reference to Apple marketing chief Phillip Schiller's now famous on-stage utterance in defense of the power of Apple's design. "Can't innovate anymore, my ass," Schiller quipped after revealing the new form factor.
And while the tech press and design aficionados seem to have fallen in love, the always irreverent Internet has already provided the requisite snark and mockery to perhaps bring the discussion back down to earth. Shortly after its unveiling, a wave of Tumblrs and forum threads riffed on the new Pro's design, turning it into a number of other things.
For the benefit of our readers, of course, AppleInsider has assembled a collection of the best of these Pro parodies.
Risible or remarkable, the new Pro's design is innovative, but perhaps not entirely unprecedented. Amazon Japan sells a trashcan that bears more than a passing resemblance to Apple's powerful new desktop.
In a savvy bit of marketing, the company tweeted a warning that the trash can — which sells for roughly $36.50 — was not Apple's newly announced computer. That tweet was retweeted more than 13,500 times, with 3,026 favorites, some of which may very well have led to a few sales.
Finally, keen eyes at The Mac Observer have noted the new Mac Pro's similarity to the cylindrical entrance of Apple's Shanghai retail store. The diminutive desktop also looks somewhat like a scaled-down Cray I supercomputer. The Observer post notes that Cray I buyers would have paid $8.8 million back in 1976 for its 160 megaflops (floating operations per second) of power, whereas the Mac Pro will cost in the thousands of dollars, delivering 7.5 teraflops of computational power, about 47,000 times faster.
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Apple's New Mac Pro Desktop Looks Just Like A New York Subway Trash Can
NOW we finally know where Apple gets the design inspiration for its amazing products: Trash bins.
User Valerlob on Reddit points out that Apple's new cylindrically shaped "Mac Pro" (which we raved over when it was announced this week) computer looks suspiciously familiar, especially if you've ever ridden on the subway in New York City.
NOW we finally know where Apple gets the design inspiration for its amazing products: Trash bins.
User Valerlob on Reddit points out that Apple's new cylindrically shaped "Mac Pro" (which we raved over when it was announced this week) computer looks suspiciously familiar, especially if you've ever ridden on the subway in New York City.
Guess what no matter how much nigger singveld rants about how the new mac pro sucks ppl are going to buy it and it's going to be a hit. 
The Japanese Garbage Can That Inspired Apple’s New Mac Pro [Humor]
Remember when the Smart Cover for iPad was first announced, and it turned out Apple was apparently inspired by Japanese bath mats when coming up with their design? Looks like Jony Ive looked around his hotel room during a recent trip to Tokyo and let another everyday Japanese object influence the design of one of Apple’s latest products.
This time? It’s being noted that a very popular Japanese trash can has a more-than-eerie resemblance to the new Mac Pro. In fact, it looks so much like the Mac Pro that it’s currently the second best-selling product on Amazon Japan’s interior furniture best sellers, with gag reviews noting that the trash can in question is not capable of running Thunderbolt 2.”
The Mac Pro, which has impressed many with its stealth good looks, has also been widely joked about as resembling a number of improbable objects, like Darth Vader’s helmet or a rice cooker. Looks like we can add the humble trash can to that list of eerie doppelgangers.
Remember when the Smart Cover for iPad was first announced, and it turned out Apple was apparently inspired by Japanese bath mats when coming up with their design? Looks like Jony Ive looked around his hotel room during a recent trip to Tokyo and let another everyday Japanese object influence the design of one of Apple’s latest products.
This time? It’s being noted that a very popular Japanese trash can has a more-than-eerie resemblance to the new Mac Pro. In fact, it looks so much like the Mac Pro that it’s currently the second best-selling product on Amazon Japan’s interior furniture best sellers, with gag reviews noting that the trash can in question is not capable of running Thunderbolt 2.”
The Mac Pro, which has impressed many with its stealth good looks, has also been widely joked about as resembling a number of improbable objects, like Darth Vader’s helmet or a rice cooker. Looks like we can add the humble trash can to that list of eerie doppelgangers.
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apple advertise their mac product in the movie theatre in USA with this advert.
what kind of advertisement is this?
is this what becomes of apple after jobs ?
apple was one of the better tech companies with great adverts, now look at this advert.
It sucks.
apple advertise their mac product in the movie theatre in USA with this advert.
what kind of advertisement is this?
is this what becomes of apple after jobs ?
apple was one of the better tech companies with great adverts, now look at this advert.
It sucks.
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