Don’t Buy The New Mac Pro

2018 and 2019 were really solid years for the Mac. Before that a lot of people, including myself, thought that Apple had completely abandoned the Mac. In 2018 they updated the Mac Mini, Macbook Air, and of course some refreshes to the Macbook Pros. In 2019 they refreshed the iMac lineup, a minor refresh of the Macbook Air (true tone mainly), released a 16 inch Macbook Pro without the butterfly keyboard, and also the new Mac Pro. Just looking at this release schedule, it appears that Apple has suddenly began caring about the Mac again, and that is a very good thing for Mac lovers.

But for those of us who need as much power as possible for video editing or programming (me), is their latest and greatest machine a good buy? No, no it is not. But let’s take a look below at why.

The new Mac Pro is horribly overpriced at both the top and bottom end of the lineup. To demonstrate, i’m going to build a very comparable system to the new Mac Pro that will be far cheaper.

Mac Pro (base configuration):

Motherboard: Apple proprietary

Processor: Xeon W-3223 (8 cores @ 3.5ghz)

RAM: 32GB DDR4 ECC RAM (expandable up to 768gb)

Graphics: Radeon Pro 580X

Storage: 256GB SSD (LOL)