The highest option of the Mac Pro 2023 stops at VND 330 million, much lower than the previous life. Photo: The Verge.
Mac Pro is Apple's most expensive computer line, aimed at professional users. The product launched last night has a starting price of 180 million VND, about 80 million VND more expensive than Mac Studio, the closest model in terms of functionality. Mac Pro 2023 also costs about 40 million more than its predecessor, launched in 2019, at the basic option.
However, if compared in the highest configuration version of the two supported devices, the device running Apple Silicone chip is nearly 1 billion dong cheaper. Specifically, when users choose all the most expensive options for the Mac Pro 2023 on Apple's website, the announced price is about 330 million VND.
Meanwhile, the Mac Pro 2019 model has a maximum price of up to 1,3 billion, if customers click to add all the upgrades offered by the company.
However, these two versions of Mac Pro are difficult to compare side by side, because of many differences in platforms and options. Specifically, Apple sells additional Afterburner cards to decode and render ProRes and ProRes RAW videos for 2019 machines. This is an important component that makes the device's graphics processing performance outstanding. The price of this component is $ 2.000 / unit, can be attached to many to increase strength.
In the newly released version, the Afterburner card is integrated directly into the processor. Apple says that they equip the above 7 cards in the default configuration. If converted into money, this feature costs up to 14.000 USD (about 328 million VND).
In addition, the previous Mac Pro model also has the option of RAM up to 1,5 TB (12×128 GB). This is also an important component, accounting for a large proportion of the total value of the machine. Meanwhile, Apple limits the number on newly launched devices to 192 GB.
At the event, Apple advertised a lot of work and processing features of the new Mac Pro, running the M2 Ultra chip. However, the device's ability to expand and serve professional users is still not as good as the previous Xeon chip.
Intel Xeon W processor can receive 12 128 GB RAM sticks, much higher than the 192 GB integrated memory of the new version. Mac Pro 2019 can also run duo (parallel) two Radeon Pro Vega II video cards, 32 GB memory each.
9to5Mac believes that a lot of RAM is never too much for professional users, who require large-capacity high-speed memory for work tasks. Therefore, the fact that Apple cannot equip more RAM proves that the company is having problems, limited to hardware, chip design.
The expandability of the Mac Pro 2023 lies in 8 Thunderbolt ports and 6 PCI slots for module expansion. Users can purchase more discrete card models, from Apple and 3rd party partners, to serve highly specialized jobs.
The actual performance and working ability of the newly launched computer model need to be tested when the device reaches the user. Apple says the product will begin shipping to pre-orders from next week.
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