But Mac Pro users have been forced to use the same-old machine for quite some time.
Some have speculated that the Mac Pro is no longer profitable for Apple.
Several thousand people are willing to give Apple thousands of dollars for a new, highly configurable and upgradeable Mac Pro.
The performance per watt is supposedly 3x that of the G5, and Apple is stuffing a pair of the chips in each new Mac Pro.
Apple announced a new Mac Pro that pairs two of Intel 's new 45-nanometer quad-core 3.2-gigahertz Xeon processors, putting eight processor cores into Apple's powerful workstations.
An Apple spokesman just told me that new models and new designs of the Mac Pro are in the works and will likely be released in 2013.
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Nevertheless, we're still a bit stumped as to why the snazzy new Mac Pro's didn't get the undercover next-gen WiFi offering, but hey, that's Apple for ya.
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Apple and Foxconn are moving Mac mini production to the US, says DigiTimes, contradicting earlier rumors that a redesigned Mac Pro would be the first to land in the country.
Yes, the Mac Pro is coming in 2013.
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While we might not see new iterations of the iPhone or an updated iPad mini with a Retina display, Cook might introduce the aforementioned Mac Pro as well as the long-rumored iRadio music subscription service.
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For those who truly want to be disconnected from reality, there's even six-display support provided it's all hooked up to a Mac Pro and a pair of three-output Radeon HD 5770 video cards.
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Seeing as the fiscals were released back in late October along with the last refresh of hardware ( Mac Pro specs notwithstanding), it seems everyone decided to spend their holiday bonuses on some Apple shares.
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Less certain (but certainly believable) is an iMac refresh, which would again get served with a Retina display, and a fourth major Mac update is apt to see the practically forgotten Mac Pro or the Mac mini updated with bolstered internals.
For those playing along at home, at some point next year we should expect a bigger iPod touch, a netbook, a smaller iPhone, a revised iMac, a revised Mac mini, and absolutely no love at all for the Mac Pro.
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The Mac Pro, possibly Apple's worst kept secret in the last couple of years picks up where the Power Cheesegrater Power Mac G5 left off, with the same cheese grating action, but a whole lot more under the hood.
Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) announced a new Mac Pro that pairs two of Intel 's (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) new 45-nanometer quad-core 3.2-gigahertz Xeon processors, putting eight processor cores into Apple's powerful workstations.
Rather than focusing on geeky products for techies -- such as the Xserver and Mac Pro -- Del Prete says he's betting Steve Jobs will show off consumer-friendly products such as a freshened iPhone and a new version of the Apple TV set top box next week.
When Hertzfeld, who now works at Google, went to the Apple store, he found that Apple did indeed update the Mac Pro, though stage time at WWDC was devoted to faster new MacBook Air notebooks, updated MacBook Pro notebooks and a new high-end MacBook Pro with a high resolution Retina Display.
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TORONTO, Canada - Today, Matias released version 4 of its award-winning Tactile Pro Keyboard for Mac, and expanded the line with a compact model: the Mini Tactile Pro.
In Japan, the Quiet Pro for Mac will be available from Diatec (Filco).
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That's where Matias's wireless Laptop Pro keyboard for Mac comes in. (The company makes a wired version for PC, too.) Its switch technology confers the tactile response of a traditional mechanical keyboard, but sounds no louder than the office standard issue.
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After the PowerBook got transformed into the MacBook Pro, the iBook into the MacBook, and the iMac and Mac mini got Intel makeovers, it was time to attack the pro desktop segment, a place where only Intel's Core 2-based Xeon "Woodcrest" processors could manage.
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Rachel has a PC at work and a Mac at home and is getting a new Windows 8 Pro tablet.
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Wunderlist Pro will be available on iPhone, iPad, Mac and the Web.
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Some reports also say Apple will introduce other new products at the event, including a 13-inch MacBook Pro with "retina display" and an upgraded Mac Mini.
The Tactile Pro 4 closely matches the layout of a standard Mac keyboard - complete with an Fn key and special function keys that work just like those on an actual Apple keyboard.
Every computer after that was an Apple: Mac SE, PowerBook 100, PowerBook G3, PowerBook G4, MacBook Pro and MacBook Air.
In addition to being able to scan images onto the included SD memory card, the scanner accepts other popular memory cards (SD, MS, MS Pro, MMS, XD) and can also be connected directly to either a Mac or PC computer via its mini-USB port.
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