Apple’s latest high-end desktop may be the future for professionals, but technology reviewers have been more than adamant to spot out some of the flaws in the new system, as the reviews coming teeming in following release.
Most reviews are positive when it comes to raw performance and redesign changes, considering the previous Mac Pro was a heavyweight beast that encapsulated everything wrong with the mobile desktop, the redesign can only be a plus.
One of the downsides to the big redesign is the lack of focus on actually making a massive improvement on the Mac Pro performance, instead wanting to make a unique design similar to a classic Braun coffee maker designed by Dieter Rams.
The Mac Pro is around 1/8 of the size of the previous Mac Pro and this is huge for any mobile crew using the desktop PC to shoot in 4K or just upload, render and film – early reports say Apple has fine-tuned this to the next level.
Apple has been fine-tuning almost everything on the hardware side to be excellent, the ports are all Apple believes high-end professionals need for the next five years and they have made sure the Mac Pro is cooled and silent.
The three way system Apple has built negates all noise and it makes the Mac Pro never overheat. This seems, at the start point, to be the perfect high-end desktop for anyone in the professional scene who needs power.
One of the only major complaints is the price and lack of upgradability – on the previous Mac Pro it was ok to start cheap and build your way up, but this time Apple wants to make sure you are buying externally and keeping everything spick and span internally.
This may be good for Apple’s warranties and making sure those same professional buy into the next Mac Pro coming in a few years, but they cannot be good for Apple if anyone on the Windows side arrives with a similar concept.
