The present Mac Professional and Professional Show XDR launched three years in the past as we speak, marking Apple’s return to a modular tower design for its flagship desktop Mac, in addition to the corporate’s re-entry into the exterior show market.
In April 2018, Apple uncharacteristically confirmed {that a} redesigned Mac Professional could be launched in 2019 to exchange the controversial “garbage can” mannequin from 2013. The brand new machine was formally unveiled at WWDC 2019 alongside the Professional Show XDR, Apple’s first new show since 2011’s Thunderbolt show. The Mac Professional and Professional Show XDR lastly launched on December 10 of that yr.
The 2019 Mac Professional incorporates a distinguished lattice sample initially designed for the Energy Mac G4 Dice in 2000, and the internals will be simply accessed by sliding off the casing. The machine incorporates eight PCIe slots for growth and was praised for its modularity and repairability. It may be bought in a rack mount configuration or with wheels for an extra $400.
The Mac Professional consists of three impeller followers to permit it to run at peak efficiency, and helps as much as 1.5TB of reminiscence, two AMD Radeon Professional GPUs, and Intel Xeon chips with as much as 28 cores. It can be configured with Apple’s customized Afterburner card for accelerating ProRes. The Professional Show XDR shares the Mac Professional’s lattice design and provides a high-resolution, 32-inch 6K panel that may exchange a reference monitor.
The Mac Professional is priced beginning at $5,999, however can attain nearly $53,000 with configuration choices. The Professional Show XDR begins at $4,999, however can go as much as round $7,200 with choices.
Three years after launch, the Mac Professional is among the final Intel-based Mac fashions nonetheless on sale and the one remaining Mac product line with no Apple silicon chip choices. An all-new mannequin that lastly brings Apple silicon to the corporate’s top-tier Mac aimed professionals has now been anticipated for over two years. At its “Peek Efficiency” occasion earlier this yr, Apple even instantly teased the launch of the Apple silicon Mac Professional, saying “that is for an additional day.”
Beforehand, stories a few smaller Mac Professional mannequin positioned someplace between the Mac mini and the Mac Professional made it troublesome to know what to anticipate from the way forward for the high-end Mac Professional line, however it’s now clear many of those rumors associated to the Mac Studio, considerably clarifying what will be anticipated from the next-generation Mac Professional.
A number of stories from Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman concerning the Apple silicon Mac Professional’s chip choices and specs present a reasonably simple image of what to anticipate from the brand new flagship skilled Mac. In line with Gurman, customers will be capable to configure the brand new Mac Professional with “M2 Extremely” and “M2 Excessive” chip choices.
But past its fundamental specs, little is presently identified concerning the system’s design, ports, efficiency, and potential for modularity and customization, in actual phrases. Apple is predicted to introduce the Apple silicon Mac Professional someday subsequent yr, and it may come alongside a “Professional” model of the Studio Show with a mini-LED panel and assist for ProMotion.
