I’m really not happy with my new MacBook Pro non touchbar 2017. I may have the opportunity to trade for a mid 2012 6 core Mac Pro. Think it’s a fair trade?
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Mac Pro vs new MacBook
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I think that would depend on the specs of your MacBook Pro and the specs of the cMP.
[doublepost=1513271391][/doublepost]Also what are you not happy about with the MacBook Pro?
[doublepost=1513271391][/doublepost]Also what are you not happy about with the MacBook Pro?
I don’t like how hot it gets, the keyboard is just not my cup of tea and I really hate the fact I have to get dongles for various things. My MacBook is the 2017 base model at 2.3 ghz i5, his Mac Pro is the 3.3 ghz 6 core Xeon
I assume portability is of no concern. I would not, however, think the Mac Pro is worth as much as the MacBook Pro is, but that depends on how the Mac Pro is equipped. A base configuration 3.33x6 core Mac Pro should only be worth maybe $6-700 at the very most.
So your MacBook Pro was $1300 new? Stock 2012 6-Core Mac Pros look to be listed for about $900 on eBay and quite a bit more through online stores with some sort of warranty. The 2010 models are a little less but newer is probably better.
To me it sounds like that would be a fairly good trade.
To me it sounds like that would be a fairly good trade.
If it is new enough to return it, you should. Then use part of the money to buy a Mac Pro. You'll have money left over.
just plug a key bored and display in to the laptop job done?
performance is subjective with no use case given, any way the macpro will be bigger and nosier and is super old with no warranty
ps you will have to buy dongles for a macpro too, maybe more so as you may need ram/gpu/hd/sdd/usb 3 card etc as well as display space etc
performance is subjective with no use case given, any way the macpro will be bigger and nosier and is super old with no warranty
ps you will have to buy dongles for a macpro too, maybe more so as you may need ram/gpu/hd/sdd/usb 3 card etc as well as display space etc
If portability is no issue (clearly it's not or you wouldn't be contemplating a Mac Pro) then for the same $1300 you could have bought a 21.5" iMac with a 3GHz i7 quad core CPU rather than your MBP with a 2.3GHz dual core i5. You would be crazy to trade your MBP for an old Mac Pro which is worth a fraction of the price & has no warranty.
Only in MacOS. If in Windows, the cMP can export (encode) faster than the MacBook Pro by using the Pascal / Vega GPU.
as the use case for the laptop is not given it's hard to say if a macpro is faster.
with it's potentially faster single core cpu speed, faster drive and it will have support from apple for the next few years.
a macpro is worth about half at most of the lap top in ££ and to buy the parts to bring it up to date if it's stock drives/SSD/GPU/USB 3 card as well as display etc will cost extra with the risk of parts failure as well (PSU any old drives or GPU)
relay it's mixed if your going to use your laptop as a desktop plug in a display and mouse keybored + eGPU will be easy to do in a year or so (fairly easy now)
for light use and normal apps id gess the laptop will be faster
with it's potentially faster single core cpu speed, faster drive and it will have support from apple for the next few years.
a macpro is worth about half at most of the lap top in ££ and to buy the parts to bring it up to date if it's stock drives/SSD/GPU/USB 3 card as well as display etc will cost extra with the risk of parts failure as well (PSU any old drives or GPU)
relay it's mixed if your going to use your laptop as a desktop plug in a display and mouse keybored + eGPU will be easy to do in a year or so (fairly easy now)
for light use and normal apps id gess the laptop will be faster
Would be curious about Windows within Parallels? would its apps still use GPU encoding/transcoding?
Could be an efficient solution to long transcoding tasks.
AFAIK, cannot do that in Parallel. Because the GPU in Parallel is NOT the actual GPU, but just the Parallel virtual GPU.