Apple to launch new Mac Pro with redesign next year

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In a private meeting with a number of US media reporters at its Cupertino headquarters, Apple has unveiled what will become the future of Mac Pro, its professional client computer, which will be redesigned and will hit the market in 2018.

The company has had its advanced equipment dedicated to professional users relegated into oblivion for four years. The latest cylindrical model hit the market there by 2013, and since then it has not been updated again. Now, Apple intones the mea culpa in an atypical meeting to talk about its plans for the near future. Phil Schiller, vice president of marketing, has told reporters that they feel they have had this break, but that they will reward users with the launch of "something big to replace it."

In case you do not remember the Mac Pro, then we leave the unboxing we did in its day to refresh your memory:

In the meeting with the journalists, Apple has recognized that the Mac Pro has been victim of its cylindrical design thought to integrate two GPUs and without space to update or add components, a circumstance that has forced to rethink the machinery to the complete. It was a one-size-fits-all team for professional customers in the most diverse fields, without the necessary flexibility of different configurations aimed at the different needs of pro users.

In addition, Craig Federighi, vice president of software at Apple, admits that part of the problem has been the growth of the iMac, as the professional customers were transferred to this equipment. This favored that the Mac Pro be relegated to the background, and the company of Cupertino left aside the market of pro users to focus on the devices with greater sales.

Now, Apple considers that the time has come to redesign the Mac Pro. The company is working on a modular device that has not given more details, as well as a new Pro screen, which would not hit the market until next year.

Meanwhile, although the design of the current Mac Pro has not undergone changes, Cupertino have included more powerful specifications. From now on, the entry-level Mac Pro starting at $ 2,999 will be equipped with a six-core Xeon processor instead of four and two Fire Pro D500 instead of D300. On the other hand, the $ 3,999 model will feature 8 cores and will switch the D500 GPUs by two D700s.

In addition, Apple has also confirmed that it is working on an iMac with power and performance aimed at professional customers, but has not advanced anything else.