The Mac Pro is here. It is very fast now, and as developers get a handle on the machine and what it can do, it will only get faster.
After a half-year wait, the Mac Pro has shipped. We knew that it would be a conversation-generating subject —but we all grossly underestimated how complex a topic it would be. From a technical standpoint and from ongoing discussions about what it means to Pro users now and in the future, this latest Mac demands to be examined and delved into.
AppleInsider has been testing two different configurations of the Mac Pro since last week. We’ve been able to use the “low end” $5999 configuration, as well as the 24-core configuration with the Vega II Duo video card, the Afterburner card, and 192GB of RAM worth $22,199.
With these or any other configuration, it should go without saying that the Mac Pro is complete and utter overkill for daily tasks and for most users. Your money could —and really should —be better spent elsewhere.
Read more at AppleInsider.com