Making things more complicated, while Apple did provide Mac Pro units to a few excellent YouTubers who use Final Cut Pro, it has not offered any traditional review units to the press, citing the above-mentioned difficulties in picking a representative spec sheet. Simply figuring out which Mac Pro to review in a way that reveals something interesting has been a process.Ĭonfiguring a Mac Pro to review was a challenge Apple’s expectation is that customers will configure almost every Mac Pro to order, all the way up to a top spec with a 28-core Intel Xeon W processor and two AMD Radeon Pro Vega II Duo GPUs that hovers near $54,000. There are no stock configurations aside from the it-has-to-start-somewhere $5,999 base setup, and the machines won’t be sold in the company’s retail stores. I have been dying to review it.Īt the same time, the Mac Pro is not a single product.

Two and a half years later, we’re looking at one of the most precisely and cleverly engineered desktop computers ever made. After much consternation about the future of the Mac, Apple admitted it needed to start all over with the Mac Pro in 2017. And demand for such a machine is well and truly pent up: Apple’s last Mac Pro came out in 2013, featuring a daring cylindrical design that the company was unable to update for years because of thermal issues. It’s very much the product that professional Mac users have been asking Apple to make for years: a modular, high-performance Mac tower. Reviewing the new Mac Pro has been an interesting challenge.

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