In the market for a new Mac Pro? You may want to hold off buying one for a while if you can wait, because some big changes are coming.
According to TechCrunch, Apple is giving its existing Mac Pro a "performance bump" today and planning to announce improved iMacs later this year. But Apple has some bigger changes for the Mac Pro later down the line.
Speaking with a small group of reporters recently, Apple's Senior Vice President of worldwide marketing Phil Schiller said the Cupertino tech giant is "in the process of … completely rethinking the Mac Pro," according to the report. It's something Tim Cook hinted at in December last year.
"If we've had a pause in upgrades and updates, we're sorry for that — what happened with the Mac Pro — and we're going to come out with something great to replace it," he added.
Schiller told reporters that Apple currently has nearly 100 million Mac users. It's been four years since the Mac Pro got a significant update, but that's changing. Apple is working on a new Mac Pro and a new external Pro display, but don't expect them to be released any time soon.
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"As part of doing a new Mac Pro — it is, by definition, a modular system — we will be doing a Pro display as well," Schiller said, according to TechCrunch. "Now you won't see any of those products this year; we're in the process of that. We think it's really important to create something great for our pro customers who want a Mac Pro modular system, and that'll take longer than this year to do."
For now, Apple is updating the existing Mac Pro for customers who can't wait many months for the new model to come out. Starting today, the $2,999 Mac Pro will offer a 6-core Intel Xeon processor, dual AMD FirePro D500 GPUs, and 16GB of memory. The $3,999 version offers an 8-core processor and dual D700 GPUs.
The Mac Pro upgrade comes after Apple last month quietly announced a new, $329 iPad to replace the againg iPad Air 2. The company also tweaked its iPhone lineup, adding a (PRODUCT)RED iPhone 7 or iPhone 7 Plus and releasing the iPhone SEin 32GB and 128GB capacities to replace the existing 16GB and 64GB models.
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