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13-Inch MacBook Pro With M2 Chip Outperforms Base Model Mac Pro Despite Costing Nearly $5,000 Less
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This is the only kind of obsolescence consumers should be OK with.
Ninja'd by you. At this point Intel in the Pro market is a joke and AMD's Zen architect is pure work power.
No, window applications. The little things you drag around.
It was a joke based on the Stage Manager repercussion.
Except we are not. I know dozens of Animation studios that run Mac Pros. You have no idea what you are talking about.
Threadrippers are great for rendering, but 75% of rendering is all GPU based now but actual professionals use Renderfarms That have 1000s of CPUs GPUs - I just rendered a 12 minute animation on a farm and it took about 30 mins ( took longer to download ) - on a maxed out Threadripper it would have been 9 days.
Not with the softer varieties. And it's hard to fit in the dishwasher.It does grate cheese better though, so there's that.
I have nothing more to say, you've proven my point that you don't understand the pro market better than I could ever.
Yeah, but Apple is consumer-orientated company making consumer products, not made-upon-order supercomputers. Apple was never in this business. What Apple wants is to have Mac Pros sitting proudly on top of the desk of major design studios, video production companies, etc where its logo shines and attracts attention to the brand and rest of its products. RTX 3090 and RTX8000 even if insufficient for some uses are benchmark for performance industry-wide and are regarded as top of line products for the average consumer (professional or non-professional), even if there are more powerful solutions for the most demanding clients, but again, these fall outside Apple business. If Apple Silicon is able to outperform these cards by a small margin, this is enough to get the crown, which is what will add value to the brand.
So:
I’ll give you the Stand - no idea why they didn’t just include it in the price and an option to remove it to lower the cost.
And the Wheels - that’s just crazy.
However:
The $2000 after burner card paid for itself in 3 days. And I’ve been making money with it for 2.5 years.
Apple silicon doesn’t run Bootcamp - I have a windows desktop as well as a mac.
The Studio maxes out at 128gb UNIFIED memory - CPU+GPU. I’ve got 128gb GPU Ram +768mb RAM.
While the Studios are great they don‘t have the direct storage / RAM for for long format video work.
Or PCIE cards like actual pros need.
The XDR monitor is cheap - my last Sony reference monitor was 22K
The very fact you are talking about Memes shows that you have zip all knowledge about pro kit other than benchmarks which are not real work use cases.
Cause they realized they bought a $6k piece of equipment that is being hammered on the CPU end by a $1.3k laptop. On the GPU end I'll reserve my judgement as a dGPU will always surpass any M2, M2 Pro/Max chip GPU.
I'm considering the same. Also I miss real gaming. Haven't had a PC in 20+ years though.
When the MacBook Air and 13" MacBook Pro just had the M1 chip, the Pro was only marginally faster than the Air, especially if both had the same number of graphics cores and same amount of unified memory. I suspect it's the same with the M2 equivalents. I remember with the Air, this was a BIG boost compared to its' Intel predecessor (and is one reason why I sprung for an M1 Air last spring.)
I feel bad for the people who bought the Intel Mac Pro. At the time, that “Mac Pro needing” audience was dying for an upgrade, and did not know about the silicon Mac transition that was coming just a short time later. But, I’m sure those who needed it are making good use of it.
Why? Same price as a Proper PC workstation ( well so long as you don’t Buy the RAM from Apple )
Well with GPU prices normalizing soon it'll be a good time to come back, especially now that we're getting Playstation's precious exclusives much to the dismay of Sony Ponies. 😂😂😂
It’s not like anyone needs lots of RAM, lots of storage, or to use specific GPU cards! 😆
We know that the Mac Pro is being superceded by this new generation of machines with Apple Silicon in some use cases. That is to be expected and it part of the reason why Apple is dropping Intel and moving to their own chips. What happens next is the important thing. We are all expecting a new Mac Pro using Apple Silicon to be unveiled in the next few months. That will be a very interesting marketing opportunity for Apple.