Remember that many Mac Pro users are either using older pre-2013 machines that can be easily upgraded (the cheese grater Mac Pros) or they have already bailed and moved to Windows. Apple’s screw up with the 2013 Mac Pro has damaged the company’s reputation in a big way, and a half-assed version of the Mac Pro isn’t going to cut it. One thing is clear in all of this, the next Mac Pro has to deliver the goods for all pro users. Apple has a long way to go to fix the Mac Pro mess Fortunately, I'm in no hurry to part with my 2014 5K iMac, it still has a lot of life left in it. I would certainly consider replacing my current 5K iMac with a new Mac Pro if Apple offered a model that worked well for gaming. Such a system would be considered the Holy Grail for Mac gamers. So I would be quite excited if a new Mac Pro finally offered Mac gamers a truly modular system that provided top-notch gaming performance and that could be upgraded easily.
#PRICE FOR MAC PRO 2013 WINDOWS#
There are tons of options for gamers who use Windows computers, but almost nothing for Mac gamers with the exception of those who build a Hackintosh. Believe it or not, there are a fair amount of Mac gamers out there but Apple has never bothered to really address the gaming market.Ĭompare Apple’s reticence about gaming with Windows computers, and the contrast couldn’t be starker. Mac gamers need a high-speed/low-core-count CPU, the best single gaming GPU possible, and VR hardware support.Īs someone who plays games on his Mac, I would love it if the new Mac Pro offered a configuration that was optimized for gaming. Marco goes on to mention what Mac Pro customers need and want, including gamers: Nobody expected the Mac Pro to have the same hardware for 3.5 years, at the very least I expected a yearly refresh of the CPU, etc. I had no idea in 2013 that the company would simply ignore the Mac Pro and allow it to languish without any updates until 2017.įrankly, if you had told me that Apple would do that, I probably would have said you were crazy.
#PRICE FOR MAC PRO 2013 UPDATE#
I was initially excited about the 2013 Mac Pro until I saw what it offered for its high price.īut back then I figured that Apple would update the Mac Pro at some point, and then it might be a better buy than it had been with the initial model. The last factor was poor timing that could’ve been fixed with regular updates, but the first two are simply major design flaws by making the wrong choices for this product.Īs I read Marco’s post, I kept nodding my head while thinking “yep, very true.” The reasons he listed above are why I went with a 5K iMac instead of a Mac Pro. Less than a year after its release, it missed the desktop Retina revolution started by the 5K iMac, and it was beaten handily in single-threaded performance by a CPU generation that Apple never updated it to use. It was designed to accommodate exactly two GPUs with relatively low heat output each, but CPU-heavy users didn’t need the second GPU, and GPU-heavy users needed hotter-running GPUs (and often just one really hot one).3 So the only configuration it was offered in was either overspecced (and overpriced) or underpowered for most Mac Pro customers. (The 2016 MacBook Pro has the same problem.) It was more expensive than its predecessor, while also removing major features that many of its customers still needed. Some of the leading factors that led to its failure:
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