If your workflow is Mac-oriented, buying a trashcan Mac Pro right now is really ...

initram · on Oct 31, 2016

If you're doing video editing with FCPX and/or Motion, those dual GPUs in the MacPro help a lot!

eropple · on Oct 31, 2016

Sure, but the hardware's anemic for the price. The MBP is pretty much at the reasonable spot on the price/performance curve.

(I use an MBP as the brain of a multi-camera video studio; I totally get why one would buy a Pro. But I'd pull 100% off of Macs before buying one.)

flukus · on Oct 31, 2016

There is also desktops and servers, both of which may be much better for rendering, running VMs, etc.

eropple · on Oct 31, 2016

There is no serious Mac desktop except for the stunningly overpriced Mac Pro.

There is no serious Mac server, period.

flukus · on Nov 1, 2016

If your in the apple ecosystem then you aren't worried about over priced products.

eropple · on Nov 1, 2016

This is...objectively wrong? The "Apple Tax" hasn't, up until the current generation and maybe (depending on your metrics) the prior one, been a serious thing for a decade. They've consistently released price-competitive systems that come with what's probably the best multi-purpose desktop OS on the planet.

Don't do the middlebrow thing. It never works.