Apple is reportedly evaluating whether or not to keep its Mac Pro workstation alive beyond this year despite having already created a revision to the current design, according to AppleInsider.
People familiar with the matter said management as far back as May of 2011 were in limbo over whether to pour any additional resources into the product line. According to these people, the consensus among sales executives for the Cupertino-based company was that the Mac Pro's days -- at least in its current form -- were inevitably numbered. In particular, internal discussions were said to focus around the fact that sales of the high-end workstations to both consumers and enterprises have dropped off so considerably that the Mac Pro is no longer a particularly profitable operation for Apple.
The new Mac Pro had previously been expected to utilize a new generation of Sandy Bridge desktop CPUs and feature a rack mountable design.
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People familiar with the matter said management as far back as May of 2011 were in limbo over whether to pour any additional resources into the product line. According to these people, the consensus among sales executives for the Cupertino-based company was that the Mac Pro's days -- at least in its current form -- were inevitably numbered. In particular, internal discussions were said to focus around the fact that sales of the high-end workstations to both consumers and enterprises have dropped off so considerably that the Mac Pro is no longer a particularly profitable operation for Apple.
The new Mac Pro had previously been expected to utilize a new generation of Sandy Bridge desktop CPUs and feature a rack mountable design.
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