Unlike the original Mac Pro introduced on August 7, 2006, the 2013 version is already fading into memory and may be remembered for its flaws instead of its benefits.
The first-ever Mac Pro would go on to define the best that Apple was capable of, and it was the range that would become a kind of canary for the company’s attitudes. Whenever the consensus was that Apple was ignoring its pro users in favor of consumers, it was always because the Mac Pro was lagging behind. We’ve now seen how opinions of the firm changed as soon as the 2019 Mac Pro was shown, but we’ve been here before.
We were thrilled at the 2006 Mac Pro, and many of us still are. We were somewhat less thrilled about the 2013 Mac Pro, but were still pretty excited —and that excitement didn’t last.
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