#mac professionals

Apple discontinues iMac Pro, available ‘while supplies last’

With the Apple Online Store page for iMac Pro now sporting a “while supplies last” tagline, Apple appears to be on the verge of discontinuing the iMac Pro. Only the base model with no custom configurations is currently available. Apple’s iMac Pro Eric Slivka for MacRumors: The ‌iMac Pro‌ launched in December 2017, and while there have been a few tweaks to the available configurations over the…

Hands-on with Apple’s all-new Mac Pro

Mac Pro features an aluminum housing that lifts off for 360-degree access to the entire system.

Last week, Apple finally launched its long-awaited Mac Pro, providing professional Mac users with the high-end, modular Mac workstation for which they’ve long wished.

Juli Clover writes for MacRumors:

The ‌Mac Pro‌ is a heavy duty machine made from quality components, and that “cheese grater” design…

The new Mac Pro is Apple’s chance to make a PC: Apple’s professional users need upgrades

“‘Can’t innovate anymore, my ass,’ proclaimed Apple exec Phil Schiller when he introduced the redesigned Mac Pro back in 2013. It was meant to be ‘the future of the pro desktop,’ but it certainly wasn’t,” Tom Warren writes for The Verge. “Four years later, Apple was forced to admit that the Mac Pro was a mess after some of Apple’s most loyal customers claimed the company had lost touch with its…

About that MacBook Pro Core i9 throttling claim

“You won’t have missed the hysterical reporting around recent claims that Apple is throttling its all-new high-end MacBook Pro, but it seems possible these alarms are blaring a little too loudly,” Jonny Evans writes for Computerworld. “The claims are that Apple’s new high-end i9 MacBook Pro has been designed in such a way as to throttle processor speeds to be slower than the i7 in order to reduce…

Mashable reviews Apple’s new 15-inch MacBook Pro: ‘An insanely powerful machine’

“Apple loaned us a 15-inch MacBook Pro, with an 8th-generation Intel Core i9 processor and 32GB of DDR4 RAM (top of the line for both), to try out for this review, and I’ve been using it pretty much exclusively since last Friday,” Pete Pachal writes for Mashable. “As a huge fan of the previous chiclet keyboard, I can say the third generation of Apple’s butterfly keyboard finally makes the design…

CNET reviews LaCie 12big Thunderbolt 3: The ultimate storage system for professionals with up to 120TB of storage

“The 12big Thunderbolt 3 (TB3) is not for everyone, partly because not everyone can afford it,” Dong Ngo writes for CNET. “Starting at $6,399 for 48 terabytes of storage space [$5,999 at Amazon], going all the way to $13,700 for 120TB [$12,999 at Amazon], it’s one of the most, if not the most, expensive consumer-grade storage system on the market.”

“The 12big is gigantic, both in terms…

Apple’s Mac Pro rethink is a good idea, but will it be good enough?

“Apple’s recent acknowledgment it is planning a design reset on its Mac Pro desktop was a much needed shot in the arm for longtime Apple loyalists,” Tom Mainelli writes for Tech.pinions. “Make no mistake, the company’s decision to go back to the drawing board on its professional desktop has less to do with the bottom line and more to do with pleasing its base, full stop.”

“That said,…

Open Thread: What’s your Mac Pro wishlist, pros?

While Apple is working on the next-gen Mac Pro, coming in 2018 at the earliest according to Apple SVP Phil Schiller (“that’ll take longer than this year to do” – so they’re obviously not that far along in the process where changes/additions/subtractions can’t be made), we thought this would be a great time for Mac-using professionals weigh in.

All we know from Apple, so far, about the…