It's a big @#$$ed coke can!

The new mac pro desktop.

I wonder if anyone is already selling wrap-around sticker kits to give the full coke (or trash..) can experience?

Business Op!

I am curious to see the machine in person, along with pricing information. It's however still a few months out, with a lot of questions yet to be answered. I'm going to wait and see before I judge it completely.

For any Apple developers out there, check out the WWDC video "Painting the future". Shows what some are already doing with the new Mac workstation.

Some aspects of the hardware do remind me of the G4 Cube. Though without the satisfying handle to remove the core.

The most interesting thing to me about the Mac Pro Mini is how they go on about how many 4K displays it'll support. If Apple start coming out with 4K displays, or at least if Dell and friends start getting hold of the same panels and doing less Apple-y ones, then that'll be a Good Thing. HDMI 1.4 will only do 4K at 24Hz refresh, but that's enough for emacs

Peter

I found it interesting that the new MacBook Air can't drive a 4k monitor. It appears that it requires beastly fast GPUs to really do the job properly, and that's something the new Mac Pro is clearly engineered to deliver.

I'm not sure whether to be excited at the opportunity to buy an awesome monitor for $4000 or not. On the one hand, you can buy a very good 24" monitor these days for $300 (or less). The 27" monitors like Apple's are much more expensive, although Monoprice has one for $390. I'm hoping that Monoprice will come to the rescue and deliver 32" 4K displays for a better price.

Meanwhile, I'm pondering the first LCD display I ever bought: an Apple 23" Cinema HD display. That originally listed for $3499 (1920x1200 pixels) and it was a staggeringly awesome upgrade from my previous CRT. His Steveness disliked power cords, so he had them tack on some power pins and USB with DVI to create Apple's proprietary ADC, eventually requiring me to buy an annoying adapter for subsequent computers that only had DVI.

The new MacBook Air has Thunderbolt 1, thus is still using Displayport 1.1. It takes Thunderbolt 2 to gain Displayport 1.2, with the support for 3840x2160 x 30bpp @ 60Hz (4k) displays.

I'm wondering if Apple is holding up Haswell MacBook Pro updates for a Thunderbolt 2 upgrade. Would make sense for their Pro laptops to gain 4K support ahead of the Air. Just frustrating since I need a Pro laptop for work here soon.