Apple Unveils New Mac Pro at WWDC 2019

19 points by pso 6 years ago | 11 comments
  • erikpukinskis 6 years ago
    It’s sort of ironic that, after switching to Intel, Apple again finds themselves saddled with the second-best consumer desktop CPU architecture.

    Who could’ve predicted the year they bring back the Mac Pro is the year AMD leapfrogs Intel though.

    • 6 years ago
      • arkades 6 years ago
        People kept saying that apple had to remember the tech crowd. This looks like a good start.
        • noir_lord 6 years ago
          I'm struggling to see why I'd take a $5000 (realistically since it's Apple more like $6500-7000) machine over a $2000 machine running Fedora unless I need to develop for iOS.
          • CharlesColeman 6 years ago
            > I'm struggling to see why I'd take a $5000 (realistically since it's Apple more like $6500-7000) machine over a $2000 machine running Fedora unless I need to develop for iOS [emphasis mine].

            IIRC, the problem was that Apple left those people (and other professionals in the Apple ecosystem) with literally no good options.

            • noir_lord 6 years ago
              I'd argue at that price they still don't have a good option merely an option.

              $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.

            • mruts 6 years ago
              Maybe you wouldn't but tons of labs, research groups, etc would shell out for one. Allows people to use Unix tools but doesn't makes the biologists unnecessarily scared.

              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.

              • noir_lord 6 years ago
                Sure, if someone wants to foot the bill I could bring myself to use one ;), it's just that when it's my money I'd rather have the same performance at a third the price and the same OS I'll be deploying to.

                As mentioned though, I'm clearly not the target demographic.

              • rhinoceraptor 6 years ago
                You don't need to spend that much. But if you want a workstation grade PC, it wouldn't be that much cheaper, spec for spec.