The Mac Studio finally gives the creative pros what they wanted, but is it too late?
Join me as we slip back in time just one decade to 2012, a glorious age when Apple was selling a Mac tower beloved by creative pros and power users alike. It was the final days of the Mac tower’s heyday—in just a few short months, many of those users would be forced to move to the iMac as Apple turned the Pro formula on its head with a jet-black cylindrical, trash can-like machine.
The transition from Mac Pro to iMac had already started before the black Mac Pro arrived, at least in Macworld’s UK offices. The comparatively high price of the Mac Pro, coupled with the need for a monitor, meant that our art department had to adopt iMacs instead of Mac Pros. I remember a lot of grumbles about this at the time—namely the super shiny screen and lack of upgradability. Sure it was possible to update the RAM in a 27-inch iMac, but if you needed an actual upgrade, the Mac Pro couldn’t be beaten…at least until Apple replaced it in 2013.
The introduction of the cylindrical Mac Pro was accompanied by much fanfare at WWDC 2013 but ended up being the final nail in the coffin for many a Mac Pro user. It was the ultimate example of style over substance and set back the pro desktop Mac by over a decade—until the Mac Studio came along to save it.
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