Following a late 2017 interview with BuzzFeed, Apple’s Phil Schiller and Craig Federighi stated that a new Mac Pro is en route, but that it wouldn’t be released until 2018. The duo also stated that a new display is coming, with teams working hard on a new kind of modular Mac Pro.
Per Phil Schiller:
“We are completely rethinking the Mac Pro. Since the Mac Pro is a modular system, we are also doing a pro display. There’s a team working hard on it right now…[but] you won’t see any of these products this year.”
The current Mac Pro design, albeit speedy, has been referred to as a “trash can” and has been thought to have sacrificed the Mac Pro’s famed modular nature with its design.
Phil Schiller offered the following apology to customers: “The current Mac Pro … was constrained thermally and it restricted our ability to upgrade it. And for that, we’re sorry to disappoint customers.”
As of 2017, Apple offered a brief refresh for the Mac Pro. Mac Pros are available with a 6-core Xeon processor, dual AMD FirePro D500 GPUs, and 16GB of memory for US$2,999. For an extra thousand dollars you’ll get an 8-core processor and dual D700 GPUs.
Stay tuned for additional details as they become available.
Via The Mac Observer and BuzzFeed