Apple launched the glossy black ‘trash can’ Mac Pro nearly a decade ago. The company’s CEO, Tim Cook, had promised ‘something special’ for the imaging pros who had been waiting patiently for a new high-end workstation. Circa 2023, and their prospective customers remain indifferent after June’s new Mac Pro ‘cheese grater’ and Mac Studio launches. There are several reasons for this apathy. Some of it is the residual pain from how Apple re-imagined their NLE, Final Cut Pro X, in 2011, which made it unusable for many. Post-production customers have long memories. Confused product marketing Another reason they’re indifferent is the way Apple has marketed the new Mac Pro and the product that sits beneath it, the Mac Studio. As usual, when you buy a computer on Apple’s site, you can configure it, so if you add every option to both Macs, the total price difference is over $3,500. The new Mac Pro, fully loaded, is $12,348, and the Mac Studio is $8,799. The Apple Mac Studio. Image credit: Apple. The basic Mac Studio costs $1,999, while the cheapest Mac Pro costs $6,999. With the Mac Pro, you get seven expansion slots, six of which are PCIe gen 4. So yes, you get more ports and slightly more slots in the Mac Pro. The all-important chip and cores are the same, but what third-party card manufacturers support these expansion slots? Both computers offer the following as fully loaded products: Apple’s M2 Ultra with a 24-core CPU, 76-core GPU, 32-core Neural...
Published By: CineD - Monday, 21 August, 2023