Mac Pro

“Depreciating the Mac Pro is a solipsistic, insane decision that formally abandons Apple's attempts at dominating anything except the prosumer market.”

“When Apple came out with the original 2006 MacPro, it was the best computer to run Windows.”

“When the TrashCan came out, there was a specific issue with Resolve that disappeared when booted into Windows.”

“The only reason the rackmount Mac had to be depreciated is because Apple realized they were LARPing as a server hardware business.”

“Thunderbolt eGPUs haven't been able to be used on Apple Silicon machines, and the Mac Pro has the same limitation”

“Instead they abandoned Khronos group, insisted on standardizing around Metal, and discontinued the Mac Pro.”

“it's getting continually further out-of-date security wise all the time”

“Mac owners are pleading for signed CUDA drivers for the PCIe or Thunderbolt in their $5,000+ Mac Pros.”

“It cost me $200. Where else am I getting 64 GB and 12 cores for $200?”

“It's not fast, but it's more than enough for many actual tasks, in particular background tasks.”

“the lack of NVIDIA GPU support in the Mac Pro will go down as one of the greatest missed opportunities in tech”

“It's a minuscule commitment that is fully supported by the higher-end Mac Pros, only disabled by software.”

“Linux on Mac Pro 5.1 from 2009 and 2017 MacBook Air, both working perfectly.”

“They require no IT time. They require no maintenance.”

“offer dual 1GbE Intel NICs that work natively on Linux, and have plenty of CPU and RAM overhead”

“I'm disappointed that this category of machine is going away, but it stopped being for me in the Apple Silicon era.”

“it was a machine I could upgrade and use as a powerful workstation”

“The trashcan really turned me off of the Mac Pro series.”

“the ability to slot in many-many different audio interfaces into a box instead of dangling out to various PCIe enclosures has been a big win”

“how the Mac Pro is struggling to find any place any more”

“The lack of Nvidia GPU support for the M series Mac Pro models kneecapped the platform for professionals.”

“If they had reduced the add-in card slots to something more reasonable, lowered the entry price”

“horrendously expensive and doesn't offer much benefit over a Mac Studio”

“I own one of these, it is amazingly well manufactured. Not cheap, but (with the exception of the power button) well made.”

“Apple really dropped the ball here. They had every ability to make something competitive with Nvidia for AI training”

“That's when they stopped designing computers for the pro market and started selling mid-century Danish furniture that can also edit videos.”

“Multiple hard drive bays for easy swapping of disks, with a side panel that the user could open and close”

“The 2013 trash can was the end of the Mac Pro.”

“it became too much of a PITA to keep modern OSX running on it”

“I miss being able to upgrade RAM at a later date without having to pay up-front for all of the RAM”

“The cheese grater mac pros were very popular, in that people got them and continued to use them.”

“the expansion was more like a cash register for apple, not really democratic”

“The 2013 was kind of a joke. small and quiet, but expansion was minimal.”

“the 2023 model was basically a joke.”

“It remains the most reliable computer I have ever owned.”

“That's probably the worst OS support story in recent Apple history, and it's for some of their most expensive machines”

“the MSRP took a dramatic leap to $5999, pricing out many people who had the budget for a $2999 or even $3499 computer”

“The ARM Mac Pro is even higher priced at $6999.”

“but these lack expansion slots”

“at the time of release the Mac Pro was prohibitively expensive”