MP 14,8 What are people using the recent Mac Pro's for these days?

[AppleFan.]

Hi Everyone,

With the Mac Studio available, offering a lot of performance for its price, I wonder what kinds of real world use cases still make people get a recent Mac Pro like the 2019 or M2 Ultra model.

If you own one (or use one at work), what do you use it for and why did you/your team choose it over a Mac Studio or Windows/Linux workstation?

Im just interested in hearing how the Mac Pro is fitting into people's workflows these days.

 

[avro707]

I need to use Windows as well as Mac OS and I didn't want to have a PC workstation sitting on my desk alongside a Mac as well. So I got the Mac Pro 2019 back in 2022 when it was still sold new from Apple.

It worked so well for me as a W6800X 32GB / 16 core 3.2ghz model that I upgraded it to W3275M 28 core CPU. Then I got a second Mac Pro 2019 with 28 core, dual W6800X Duos, that has also been really excellent.

They both just work brilliantly.

Eventually they'll be moved on and a PC workstation will replace them and that will be the end of my time with Apple for computers.

 

[flowrider]

I had a 7,1 and recently changed to a 14,8. Main reason - Expandability without external boxes. I have ten SSDs and an additional USB Card in my Mac.

Lou

 

[Sammael]

Global dominati……..I mean, cat videos, and editing my drone footage.

 

[Minocan]

Music production and later video. Been a tower guy for 20 years, habits die hard. Also got a laptop for future live shows recently though.
I use a pci-e sound card and nvm2 drives are great for sample libraries.

 

[edubfromktown]

A couple of (Apple refurb) M3 Ultra Studios (only model that supports up to 512GB RAM) for dockerized development prototyping work.

It gets pushed to CUDA cloud infrastructure for production training at scale and inference deployment.