Apple’s new Mac Pro is its most powerful computer ever, with performance specs catered toward creative professionals like visual effects artists, musicians, and filmmakers who need a lot of processing power. The Mac Pro is Apple’s high-end desktop model built for power and performance. It’s in the big brother to both the Mac Mini and the iMac but aims for a different and specific audience.
It’s designed for professionals who need a powerful and flexible machine and is ideal for applications that use as many processing cores as possible—video-editing applications, image-editing software, 3D programs, and the like.
From the modular design that allows flexibility for upgrades to the dedicated Afterburner video editing card that supposedly eliminates the need for proxy workflows. It reaches for most creators, and that’s before they’ve started to configure it with added power, potentially pushing the price up by tens of thousands of dollars. At that range, artists say the Mac Pro might make more sense as an investment for companies and studios, rather than something for individuals to put in their home or office.
