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.”