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The MacBook Pro is the best laptop I've ever owned. It is extremely powerful, hugely energy-efficient, and the mechanical keyboard is finally really nice.
Since the MBP entirely scratches my business itch, the only desktop I'd buy is a gaming rig, which the Mac Pro certainly is not.
Edit: butterfly keyboard not mechanical keyboard, sorry!
Mechanical keyboard?
I guess not mechanical keyboard... maybe I meant butterfly keyboard.
I don't think you meant that. The butterfly keyboards were pretty much univerally hated and Apple doesn't use them anymore.
Macs just have a pretty good scissor switch keyboard.
Apple hasn't been for professionals, for like a decade now.
Disagree.
All the software companies i work with has switched to MacBook Pros as their mainline professional laptop of choice in the past decade.
It’s literally a better product for most of developer work and much easier to support.
In fact, I’m confident that MX MacBook Pros have cannibalized a good chunk of Mac Pro sales because they are just that good.
Too bad the Reddit migration attracted trolls like this.
Maybe try music production professionals, a lot of them tend to use Macs
I dont really think that music production is performance limited though
For projects with a huge number of tracks, VSTs, etc, you can push hardware to the limit quicker than you might think.
They’d want a Mac Studio. In fact, that product was designed specifically for music production professionals and outperforms the Pro.
The only people the Pro targets are those who want expansion capabilities, and the latest version is hamstrung in this regard.
I would think this would probably be more useful for people involved with video production or animation than music production, which could likely be accomplished on a MacBook.
I mean, it's just a really bad value compared to the rest of the lineup. It's basically a Mac Studio in a larger case and a PCIe breakout board bolted on. That's it. But for twice the price of the Mac Studio and 10 times it size.
The only unique features is has are PCIe and SATA ports. So unless you really need a ton of local storage or a ton of GPU-power, there's no reason to buy it.
If you need a ton of local storage, it would be cheaper to buy a NAS and some 20TB drives for it than to upgrade from a Studio to a Mac Pro. Especially with a 10-gig Ethernet connection.
If I recall correctly, you cannot even put GPUs in there, right? Only other pci peripherals, or did this change?
iOS doesn't work with any of the software I use on a daily basis. Linux doesn't either for that matter.
At least Linux has Wine. Also, I'm sure there is software out there for Linux users
It’s an absurd product. It’s a Mac Studio gingerly placed into a behemoth of a case that, itself, costs $3k, And for what? Can’t upgrade the memory or storage. Can’t add dGPUs. All you get is more ports and the ability to add internal PCI cards, both of which could be accomplished with the Studio with far cheaper external solutions. And it's gigantic and weighs a ton.
Who is this for? Idiots?
Idiots with too much money.