A Flood of Fawning Reviews For Apple's Latest

Like many other review sites, it seems that MacWorld can hardly find enough good things to say about the new Mac Pro, even while conceding it's probably not right for many users. 9to5 Mac has assembled a lot of the early reviews, including The Verge's, which has one of the coolest shots of its nifty design, which stacks up well against the old Pro's nifty design. The reviews mostly boil down to this: If you're in a field where you already make use of a high-end Mac for tasks like video editing, the newest one lives up to its hype.

Comments

Re:Advancing in what direction?

[Chas]

Because it's not a piece of art. It's a tool.

If you read the Verge article it talks about Apple having talked with people and horror stories of people sawing the handles off their old Mac Pros so they could fit into a rackmount.

This is kind of important for crews with large amounts of equipment, as hand-carrying every...individual...component...is about the stupidest possible way to do it. Being able to rack a complete solution just makes more sense. You drop the case where it needs to go, plug it into power and a monitor and go.

With the new version, you pull out your "case O' stuff", unpack the Mac. Unpack the first peripheral, unpack the second peripheral, unpack the third peripheral...and so on. Y'know, DUMB.

Apple may have listened. But they apparently didn't hear a damn thing.

Re:Advancing in what direction?

[Nerdfest]

Customers telling Apple what they want is not Apple's business model.

Re: Video editing...

[ttucker]

Price out buying a computer from dell, and then adding a commodity video card (remember only Apple stops you from doing this).

Add to that, the Mac Pro only consumes 450w versus the Dell's 1500w,

Neither computer even draws anywhere close to 450w in normal operation, probably closer to 150w at idle, and maybe a little higher when working. You have amusingly confused a lower quality PSU to a much higher quality one, and in true Apple fashion picked which ever one goes in the Macintosh as better. The Apple has lower peak power needs because it has no internal expansion space, so instead you will be bleeding power from the various wall warts and power dongles that come with external accessories.

Re:Not a great value, in my opinion

[Overzeetop]

You know, if you don't put your computer in a miniature trashcan, you can install a more efficient cooling system.