“Loyalists of Apple’s Mac Pro have been clamouring for an upgrade to the high-end desktop, which last received a facelift in 2010,” Agam Shah writes for Digital Arts. “he new workstation is priced starting at £2,082.50 plus VAT and has one of the latest Intel Xeon E5 processors, solid-state drive storage, Thunderbolt 2 and dual graphics cards tightly packed in a cylindrical chassis.”
“Craig Seeman, owner of Third Planet Video, a video production company in Brooklyn, New York, said that the Mac Pro’s entry price is lower than expected. The latest hardware, especially two graphics processors, is one reason he will upgrade to the latest system,” Shah writes. “‘The smaller design is much more space efficient. This is of major importance to those of us who work in small and often crowded offices,’ Seeman said.”
“The Mac Pro will find high-end buyers using programs like Final Cut Pro X, but interest could increase if more peripherals for Thunderbolt 2 become available, said Peter M. Fine, who runs consulting firm FinePeter Consulting in New York,” Shah writes. “But some potential buyers who have waited years for the new Mac Pro are weighing the workstation against the high-end iMac, which is cheaper and delivers sufficient performance required to run multimedia programs. Still, the Mac Pro has its advantages with server processors, faster graphics cards and Thunderbolt 2 ports, not available in the iMac.”
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