It is certainly capable of supporting the needs of any Pro user, but the budgets of these groups are often wildly different. ![]() Unfortunately, the new Mac Pro doesn’t really cater to all these groups. However, the one thing almost all of these users can agree on needing is expandability and upgradability, to be able to modify the hardware after purchase to suit their needs and to extend the life of their purchase. And then there are some who need all of these things at once. Some can get by with a few dozen GB of RAM, but some may find even the 1.5TBs a maxed out Mac Pro can handle to be limiting. Some are almost entirely GPU bound in their workflows. Some need a lot of CPU power but not much GPU. Now the problem with these groups is they all have different needs. See also: High-end users on “Why I'm buying the new Mac Pro”. If you’re an audio professional considering a new Mac Pro, be aware of how its T2 chip can mess with audio recording. I ended up going for a 27” i9 iMac after first seeing the price and it's faster than the base Pro will be at half the price □♂️ Apple hardware/software deserves a premium, just not 4x. Just a reminder before it goes live, the Mac Pro $6k base model has equivalent performance of a < $1500 commodity system. I wonder how the base model’s CPU will compare with the iMac and MacBook Pro, given that it only Turbo Boosts to 4 GHz. The base model’s SSD is half the size of the minimum SSD on the 16-inch MacBook Pro, and it can only be upgraded to 4 TB of storage (vs. Meanwhile, the iMac Pro hasn’t been updated since 2017 and is likely slower than the regular iMac.īelow, we’ve listed the available upgrade options from the base machine, which is equipped with a 3.5GHz 8-core Intel Xeon W processor, 32GB RAM, Radeon Pro 580X, 256GB SSD, no Apple Afterburner, and no wheeled frame. ![]() ![]() External Thunderbolt peripherals could in theory address a lot of needs, but that market just doesn’t seem to have developed very well, and Macs don’t have enough Thunderbolt ports. People will make do with iMacs and MacBook Pros, or buy the Mac Pro if they really need it, but that’s not the same as being able to buy the computer that you want. It seems like there’s still a hole in the lineup. It’s also not the developer Mac that you might have expected given Apple’s 2017 statements about that pro market. Apple has a great history of making modular desktop Macs, at sane prices, and this is not that. I’m happy that the new Mac Pro exists, but for my purposes it feels like they built the wrong product, too late. So it looks like some people may receive them just before the end of the year. More than two years after Apple promised a new modular high-end desktop machine for its professional users, the new Mac Pro is now available for purchase, as is its companion display, the Pro Display XDR.Īpple is accepting orders for the Mac Pro and the Pro Display XDR, with Mac Pro delivery estimates at one to two weeks after an order is placed.
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