As far as I’m concerned, Apple haven’t yet released a new Mac Pro. Not in the traditional sense. What we have here is certainly one incredible Mac. But it’s in the Workstation category in terms of price point and performance. Traditionally, the Mac Pro (and the Power Mac before it) were machines that many developers and designers would have enjoyed owning. I owned several. But this new machine is geared more towards very high-end video production and the like. Likewise for the incredible display that you’re supposed to pair it with. We might think these things are very expensive (they are to me, anyway) but they’re actually very competitive in the Workstation market.
I am very glad that Apple are pushing the envelope on Mac hardware once again. Things are going the right way, in terms of Mac hardware. But I doubt many of us would really take full advantage of this machine and I hope we see a more “developer-friendly” version of the Mac Pro next year. A traditional Mac Pro.
I don’t expect Apple will do that again… The closest now would be the mac Mini but they usually do something with that I don’t like.
BTW those Power Macs are what I used to buy every 4 years. I have the last aluminum PowerMac G5 Cheese grater model that i bought about 14 years ago still sitting around… (that thing is HEAVY!!!)
But more recently I felt I had to go with 27" iMacs even though I hate the idea of having to essentially buy a new monitor whenever I get a new decent higher end non workstation Mac!
Even If I am wrong and they come out with such a Mac again, as I just got a refurb high end iMac (i9 Vega graphics), by the time I need a new one (5-6 years) I will likely be retired (and that could happen sooner than i want!) so won’t be able to justify the cost of that (or even another high end iMac).
Sure, i understand where you are coming from, you as a professional user don’t want or have time to experiment with unproven harware, for me however a big part of the fun is just experimenting and trying to get things work that are maybe not as reliable but giving the thrill of unexpected successes.
Beyond that i think those Youtube films are clearly showing that it is possible to run Mac software on a pc with decent performance and stability, even on AMD hardware.
I can show you a shoe box running Catalina very nicely and post that on YouTube. It does not mean the shoebox was ever able to run macOS. Or even know what happened to it
Heck, there are even YouTube videos showing how to run Windows on a phone !
Caution is in order. A PC is a great machine with Windows or Linux. It may become a crash monster with something else. Or even a dead brick. Sure, it may be fun to experiment, but that is probably the extent of it.
