Apple adjusts Mac Pro pricing, but you still shouldn’t buy it

Apple adjusts Mac Pro pricing, but you still shouldn’t buy it

5

You get better specs at each price level, but it’s still three-year-old hardware

by James Vincent 
Apple has issued a mea culpa over the Mac Pro, telling a number of publications that it’s “sorry” there was a “pause in upgrades and updates” for the device — introduced in 2013 and stagnant ever since. The company says a new Mac Pro with an all-new design is coming, but in the meantime, it’s switched up pricing and components of existing models to give customers a slightly better deal.
The design of the Pro remains unchanged, but the new entry-level $2,999 model now comes with a six-core Xeon Processor (the old model had a four-core chip), dual Fire Pro D500 GPUs (instead of D300s), and 16GB of RAM. The high-end $3,999 Mac Pro ups its processor to an eight-core model, and bumps those D500 GPUs to D700s.
As far as upgrades go, it’s minimal. All Apple has done is drop the old high-end models into lower price brackets, and at the end of the day, this is still three-year-old hardware. Plus, it’s difficult to say who will be tempted to buy the Pro, especially with new models coming in 12 months’ time. But, whatever happens next, it’s likely we’ve seen the end of the Mac Pro in its incarnation as shiny black waste bin. As Apple exec Phil Schiller told BuzzFeed: “We are completely rethinking the Mac Pro.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Image
Destiny 2 Collector’s Edition, Limited Edition, Story Synopsis, and PC Box Art Leaked By : Prom king   HIGHLIGHTS Destiny 2 will have two special editions The PC version of Destiny 2 will see a physical release Expect an official announcement from Activision soon Destiny 2’s  official reveal  trailer is at 10am PST (10:30pm IST) on Thursday, March 30, but that hasn’t stopped the leaks from coming. ALSO SEE Destiny 2 Release Date, Price, and Beta Revealed Update:  Universo Destiny - the website that originally reported Destiny 2's story, PC box art, and the Destiny 2 special editions, has taken its posts and a thread on the Destiny subreddit down allegedly  claiming  that it could result in retailer employees being fired. Though it lends credence to the fact that this is what we could get when Destiny 2 details are announced by Activision later today. Aside from the Destiny 2  release date ...
Read more

How to Study and Learn

Image
How to Study and Learn (Part One) All thinking occurs within, and across, disciplines and domains of knowledge and experience, yet few students learn how to think well within those domains.  Despite having taken many classes, few are able to think biologically, chemically, geographically, sociologically, anthropologically, historically, artistically, ethically, or philosophically.  Students study literature, but do not think in a literary way as a result.  They study poetry, but do not think poetically.  They do not know how to think like a reader when reading, nor how to think like a writer while writing, nor how to think like a listener while listening.  Consequently they are poor readers, writers, and listeners.  They use words and ideas, but do not know how to think ideas through, and internalize foundational meanings.  They take classes but cannot make connections between the logic of a discipline and what is important in life. Even the bes...
Read more