Το νέο “modular” Mac Pro θα κυκλοφορήσει το 2019
Ο
Matthew Panzarino
έχει τη -δυσάρεστη- είδηση της ημέρας: To πολυαναμενόμενο
“modular”
Mac Pro
δεν θα κυκλοφορήσει πριν το
2019
!
Ο
Panzarino
συνάντησε τους
John Ternus
(Vice President of
Hardware
Engineering),
Tom Boger
(Senior Director of Mac
Hardware
Product
Marketing
),
Jud Coplan (
Director of Video Apps Product
Marketing
) και
Xander Soren
(Director of Music Apps Product
Marketing
) και συζήτησε μαζί τους τα
σχέδια
της Apple για το “modular”
Mac Pro
που θα υποστηρίζει παραμετροποιήσεις και αναβαθμίσεις επί μέρους
hardware
όπως κάρτες γραφικών κ.α.
Tom Boger
(Senior Director of Mac
Hardware
Product
Marketing
):
“We want to be transparent and communicate openly with our pro community so we want them to know that the
Mac Pro
is a 2019 product. It’s not something for this year.
Ένα ακόμη
ενδιαφέρον
στοιχείο της συνάντησης του
Panzarino
με τα στελέχη της Apple είναι η πληροφορία περί ανάπτυξης μίας νέας ομάδας που ασχολείται με το
project
υπό το όνομα “
Pro Workflow Team
“.
Η συγκεκριμένη ομάδα τελεί υπό τις οδηγίες του
John Ternus
(Vice President of
Hardware
Engineering) και συνεργάζεται στενά με
χρήστες
/επαγγελματίες του χώρου με σκοπό να λαμβάνει άμεσα insights για το τι πραγματικά χρειάζεται ένας επαγγελματίας που εργάζεται επάνω σε visual effects, video editing, 3D
animation
ή/και music
production
από το μηχάνημα του.
Tom Boger (Senior Director of Mac
Hardware
Product
Marketing
):
“We’ve been focusing on visual effects and video editing and 3D
animation
and music
production
as well. And we’ve brought in some pretty incredible talent, really masters of their craft. And so they’re now sitting and building out workflows internally with real content and really looking for what are the bottlenecks. What are the pain points. How can we improve things. And then we take this information where we find it and we go into our architecture team and our performance architects and really drill down and figure out where is the bottleneck. Is it the OS is it in the
drivers
is it in the application is it in the silicon and then run it to ground to get it fixed.”
“We’ve gone from just you know engineering Macs and
software
to actually engineering a workflow and really understanding from soup to nuts, every single stage of the process, where those bottlenecks are, where we can optimize that. And to JT’s point because we build the
hardware
the
firmware
the operating
system
the
software
and have these close relationships with third parties we can
attack
the entire stack and we can really ferret out where we are we can optimize for performance.”
“As we said a year ago working on modular was inherently a modular
system
and in looking at our customers and their workflows obviously that’s a real need for our customers and that’s the direction we’re going.”