Ed Posted February 4, 2013 Share Posted February 4, 2013 Apple has sent letters to resellers across Europe informing them to place their final orders for Mac Pro machines by February 18th as Apple will no longer be selling the professional towers from March 1st onwards in Europe. The reason behind the unusual move by Apple is due to the aging Mac Pro failing to meet an un-specified criteria from Amendment 1 of Regulation IEC 60950-1; an international safety standard for electrical equipment. This could be taken as either good or bad news for the fate of the relatively neglected Mac Pro: naysayers could argue that this is the beginning of the end of the Mac Pro as Apple prepares to wind up production, and other territories may follow in ceasing sales of the high-end Mac. However, far more likely it's a simple case of Apple having something else up its sleeve later this year as already promised by Tim Cook in an e-mail, coupled with the fact that it doesn't really affect Apple given the Mac Pro is such a niche product in its line-up these days and we're only talking about the European market, not the whole world. Check out the letter from Apple to its European resellers: "As of March 1, 2013, Apple will no longer sell Mac Pro in EU, EU candidate and EFTA countries because these systems are not compliant with Amendment 1 of regulation IEC 60950-1, Second Edition which becomes effective on this date. Apple resellers can continue to sell any remaining inventory of Mac Pro after March 1. Apple will take final orders for Mac Pro from resellers up until February 18th for shipment before March 1, 2013. Countries outside of the EU are not impacted and Mac Pro will continue to be available in those areas." Click here to view the article 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted February 4, 2013 Share Posted February 4, 2013 They have already axed the 17" MacBook Pro... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3.14r2 Posted February 5, 2013 Share Posted February 5, 2013 ...prices on European eBay sites will go high... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tdtran1025 Posted February 16, 2013 Share Posted February 16, 2013 Power hungry! Video compression now takes a different turn with Intel QuickSync that replaces the CPUs to boost time 400% yet retains 90% quality, a reasonable trade off. MacPro will have to reflect this new paradigm to include multiple video slots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 ...prices on European eBay sites will go high... It depends on how many people want a Mac Pro with "obsolete" hardware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhatTheTech Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 It depends on how many people want a Mac Pro with "obsolete" hardware. I don't know, looking at my local craigslist it would seem that people are willing to pay $300 for an iBook... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PunkNugget Posted April 13, 2013 Share Posted April 13, 2013 Why are people wasting their time with MacPros when a Hackinstosh setup is 1/4 the price and has the EXACT SAME performance pound for pound. In fact you can shove more stuff in custom case than a MacPro and have even more performance and power !!! Why do you think we're here? Just venting my thoughts... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fantomas Posted April 14, 2013 Share Posted April 14, 2013 a Hackintosh could seem to be a "low cost" Mac alternative but it isn't what we do here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Xtreme Posted December 9, 2014 Share Posted December 9, 2014 Yeah its for fun! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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