Having previously fallen into the series of unfortunate events that lead me to acquire the original Mac Pro Desktop. Apple Inc have begun to establish themselves yet again as revolutionary technological pioneers by announcing the new redesigned Mac Pro Desktop range.
Having build systems for almost a decade now and owning many of the product when you tear down most Apple products your are usually disappointed. In fairness the Mac Mini range do well to balance price to performance ratios with component selection. However the behemoth that is the Mac Pro has always felt overpriced and over hyped.
The redesigned in no exception and having price tags of over £2000 must be justified to the extreme and the following short deconstruction of the new design will explain the pitfalls of this new 'innovation'.
The design is striking at first glance yet looking at the bare bones its the same story. Xeon CPU architecture and masses of infographics that explain bandwidth rates and immense raw power of the system.
The design is simply a PC wrapped within a circular tube with linkage to components fed through proprietary connectors to accommodate the new design. This in result meaning fewer user moddable parts. Something the original Mac Pro used as its USP. With this gone the system setup now accommodates inwards facing main board components with a central cooling fan. The RAM slots within sides and the flip side contains dual graphics chipsets arranged in similar manner to the mainboard.
Clearly the idea of dual graphics cards within a performance system seems a new concept to Apple. Clearly the fact is that custom builds have had these for years with the price outlay for most Mac Pro's this cannot justify the standard prediction of a price tag of £1.5k+ for a basic build with underpowered CPU's and GPU's.
Be cautious many of the claims are that of features and performance landmarks that were achieved before the announcement of this. The drive performance through using PCi-E as opposed to the standard SATA interface again is not a new concept.
In conclusion through a pure hardware analysis of the machine its clear it has no substance as a performance machine and with Apple's history the price unless heavily lowered will not impress the standard system builder.
On the other hand Apple being Apple, will use their marketing magic to convince the masses that this is yet again a revolution.
-Adstronix.
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