Apple Unveils New Mac Pro at WWDC 2019(venturebeat.com) |
Apple Unveils New Mac Pro at WWDC 2019(venturebeat.com) |
Who could’ve predicted the year they bring back the Mac Pro is the year AMD leapfrogs Intel though.
IIRC, the problem was that Apple left those people (and other professionals in the Apple ecosystem) with literally no good options.
I'm only half-joking. I've seen a lot of wasteful spending in government and medical research divisions on Mac Pros (this was before the garbage can design) for precisely these reasons. At my last research job, I got a beefy (at the time) Xeon 24 core Mac Pro with 3 Tesla Nvidia cards as my work station. Really couldn't complain. Was a super nice machine.
As mentioned though, I'm clearly not the target demographic.
$6k for an 8 core tower with 32GB of RAM base and a 256GB SSD (my Thinkpad has 32GB of RAM and more more nvme m2 storage than that).
So it's less powerful in the base config with half the RAM of the machine I built last year for £2000 (about $2600 currency to currency, I suspect you could do it for $2200 if you built it in the states).
Which will shortly be a 12C/24T for another $499 - whatever I get for the 2700X.
I get that I'm not the target demographic but that is hilarious.
This is a workstation for complex engineering/design/research use, not a general purpose desktop. You buy a workstation when you need as much compute power and expandability as possible, irregardless of price.
You can find similar workstations on the PC side as well (e.g. a Lenovo P920 or HP Z840). And they tend to be roughly as expensive.