Per an interview with TechCrunch’s Editor-in-Chief Matthew Panzarino, Apple confirmed that the new Mac Pro will be a 2019 product.
The company seemed eager to clarify the date in that it doesn’t want customers who are currently considering the iMac Pro to hold off, anticipating a Mac Pro launch later in the year.
Apple’s current focus with the new machine is on visual effects, video editing, 3D animation, and music production. As such, the Pro Workflow Team, consulted with Apple as to bottlenecks, pain points, inefficiencies, potential hardware performance limitations and bug reports, then blended this information with Apple’s Pro products design team.
In the article, Hardware Engineering VP John Ternus is quoted as saying, “I want to be clear that the the work that we’re doing as a part of the workflow team is across everything. It’s super relevant for MacBook Pros, it’s super relevant for iMacs and iMac Pros and in the end I think it helps us in dialogue with customers to figure out what are the right systems for you.”
The article also confirms that Apple is looking at the next-gen Mac Pro as a modular product, wherein Tom Boger, Senior Director of Mac Hardware Product Marketing, offered the following comment:
“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.”
That being said, it looks like Apple is looking to accommodate the professional marketplace with the new Mac Pro, even if it doesn’t arrive until next year.
Stay tuned for additional details as they become available.
Via Macworld and TechCrunch