Mac-loving professionals, that’s who.
The entire Mac lineup is now free from Intel chips.
For all of Apple’s other Macs, the M1- andM2-series chipshave radically altered the equation for computers.
Photo editing on a Mac Studio.Apple
The speed and efficiency of the M1 and M2 chips come in large part from their all-in-one design.
For a laptopor regular desktop, this design really has revolutionized the Mac.
But Mac Pro users buy them for one reason: expandability.
Rear view of the Mac Pro.Apple
Two common upgrades are additional RAM and extra graphics cards.
The 2019 Mac Prosupports up to 1.5 TB RAM.
The new 2023 model can only manage 192GB, which is an order of magnitude less.
Is Mac Pro Hobbled By the GPU?
And then we get to the graphics card, or GPU, situation.
In short, you cannot use one.
But that wouldn’t be a problem if you could add more, which you cannot.
GPUs aren’t just used for graphics processing.
They are also essential for other kinds of computer tasks.
Training AI models, for example, requires a lot of parallel processing, which GPUs are great at.
And there’s more.
They use the MacBook Pro.
And for that, it comes with its own screen, plus a built-in keyboard and trackpad.
Perhaps Apple was rushing to get this Mac Pro out the door to complete its Apple Silicon transition.
We’ll have to wait for the next Mac Pro update to know the answer.
And until then, we can keep being totally pro with our MacBooks Pro.
