Tuesday, August 30, 2016

The Apple 2013+ Model of the Mac Pro Remains Formidable

Tim Cook's only aspiration is to bring iOS to it and the pending question remains of who the fuck asked for that.

Nevertheless, the 2013+ design is the cylindrical model which not only offers exceptional expansibility, it also offers a revolutionary cooling design which is something generic Windows systems have never managed well.  I built a Windows PC from scratch once but it only self-immolate in a year.  There was nothing I saw in that year which gave any reason to build another one.  Conversely, my experience with Apple runs to the early eighties and is continuous.  There were some bumps but that Windows PC was the only time a computer committed suicide.

Note:  it also offers a hideous vision of desktop wtf but it yields such power.

Perhaps you have seen promotion of the Mac Pro but I haven't seen much of anything from Tim Cook which lauds the exceptional design and capability, instead preferring to turn his weary head to wearable, holdable, squeezable Apple toys.  Tip:  how about making them plush toys so the chill'uns can take them to bed.

(Ed:  they do that anyway)

Yah, I suppose that follows, doesn't it.


The iPhone is not interesting since it never changes all that much and we won't be holding our precious breath until Hollywood uses iPhones to shoot the next premium film, something which has been done via Final Cut with input from heavyweight camera equipment multiple times.

The iPhones are coming!

Yah, to Instagram or SnapChat but who even looks since most of it is likely covered by Kardashian's gigantic backside.


Trying to reproduce the Apple presentation on the Mac Pro is pointless since that presentation is as visually appealing as it's technologically astonishing.  After review, it shows has kept pace or advanced past any standards for I/O and the capacity is remarkable.  The processing power is also astonishing with a twelve-way clocking at 2.7 GHz while their four-way quad clocks at 3.7 GHz.  The third aspect of the processor dynamics is the offload of graphics processing to two GPUs with enormous processing power and memory.

The fully maxed-out Mac Pro goes for $9500 from Apple but even the most ardent home film fanaticist would likely be more than satisfied with the eight-way model for about $8000 grand.

Apple claims it's possible to watch and edit a full-resolution 4K video while simultaneously rendering in the background and no noticeable lag in performance.  My videos don't go beyond HD because I have neither the equipment nor the need so mine would process in an eye blink after an already astonishing improvement simply in going forward to the iMac from a laptop.  The iMac should not be at all underestimated for instant computer power and extremely low maintenance.  Laptops are low-performing crap and that was true through to my last one about three years ago.

Yes, there was an unfortunate incident with a power supply on iMac which took experts some while to locate but that type of problem has been incredibly rare in my Apple experience or likely I would not have tolerated it.  I  could find that find that kind of flak at work and they would pay me for it, quite a bit, in fact.

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