History of the Mac Pro

The Mac Pro is one of Apple's most powerful computer models in their lineup. And its story began in 2006 when the first generation Mac Pro was introduced. It marked the third addition to Apple’s desktop lineup that still exists today, including the iMac, Mac Mini, Mac Pro, and the most recent iMac Pro. Now there has been quite a bit of drama during the Mac Pro’s lifespan, and we’ll discuss why that is later in the video, but in order to understand the whole story, let’s travel back to Apple’s 2006 Worldwide Developers Conference.

[Real_Retrophilia]

The price of the original Mac Pro gets you 2.5 stands...

[hisimperialbasedness]

I love the original Mac Pro. I love its design, I love the 2 Superdrives, I love the I/O, I love that you can actually upgrade it like a *REAL* PC tower, I love how easy it is to upgrade, I love how nowadays you can max it out and use it as a budget gaming PC via Boot Camp, I love that you can get a 5, 1 Mac Pro running Big Sur, I love how you can install 4 SSDs in this pre-built computer from 2006, and I love how it doesn't cost your soul to buy(Hell, even back then it was decently priced). The first gen Mac Pro is my absolute favorite Apple product of all time!

[adamkija]

Make this video again with the new cheese grater

[davidgaboda]

I liked that the old mac had expandable parts like a PC

[TheBrainless]

Have a MacPro 4.1 upgraded to 12 cores/24 trades 2.9 Xeon, SSD, 48GB RAM, Nvidia 970 GTX In this days still no needs for upgrade. It's a real working horse, love this machine!

[Pendleton]

The Mac Pro is one of my favourite machines of all time. I personally have the 2008 model with 22GB of RAM, dual quad core 2.8Ghz Xeons and a GTX 760. Runs Mac OS Mojave like a champ!

[shadcubetv]

I wish Apple still made big ol tower computers that you could upgrade just like a PC

[Ammoniumbicarbonat]

Who else thinks the early 2000s Power Mac aqua-motif computer tower looks so good?

[Maaike]

Watching on my "trashcan" Mac Pro. I absolutely love this thing. The design is gorgeous and even though the hardware is becoming pretty old by tech standards, it's still so much faster than any other computer I've used.

[surprise]

I’m a pic enthusiast and fanboy, yet I still watch your channel. You have found the perfect formula

[cstoney]

Ha - Watching this on my 5, 1 2012 Mac Pro 2 x 3.46 12 core, Nvidia Titan X, etc the best most upgradable computer Apple has ever made (IMHO) !

[miketaggart]

I loved my 2008 Mac Pro. Ran it for 13 years. It did eat a video card. But got a new one that supported two monitors. And had the ram at 32GB. Now I’m glad I didn’t get the trash can pro. Now I have the iMac Pro. Despite its non expandibility, I hope to get as much enjoyment and reliability from my iMac Pro

[OlivierAlcouffe]

Am I the only one that never saw the voting poll?

[HaloK]

I recently got a 2020 Mac mini with 6 core I7 (3.2-4.6Ghz with Hyper threading) 512GB SSD and 64GB RAM. 4 ThunderBolt3 ports which by comparison makes it a Mac mini Pro! It's always fun to see the advancement of technology.

[evancrazyerror]

You didn’t even include the “Can’t innovate anymore my ass” part of the Mac Pro intro. One of the most ironic phrases in apple history.

[dragonballjiujitsu]

Even today you can get a 2012 model and upgrade it to meet or exceed damn near any modern machine.

[zijielim]

To me the MAC pro trash can was the best design ever only problem is if you wanted to upgrade it if not it’s totally useable back then

[WarriorsPhoto]

The latest gen Mac Pro is a wonderful machine to look at. It had its issues like any other machine. I would still get one if it was spec'd out with the D500 or D700 GPUs.
For now, as long as the 5.1 is supported I'll stay with that computer. (:

[ericwood]

The "Mac Pro" is the beginning of the end of the Mac as we knew it, actually. Before that, all Macs were great desktop/tower machines and equally comparable, competitive laptops. They did not emphasize form and image over function. There were many mid- and high-range models that might be dubbed "pro" in modern Apple marketing parlance; the Macintosh II came out in the late 80s and was a very open and expandable model that could even be set up as either a desktop or a tower. It was every pro-oriented, and subsequent models remained similarly open and powerful with a growing range of options in terms of form factor, performance and price. It was way different to now, when Macs typically come packed in some ultra-slim space age configuration that the user is not even supposed to open up, let alone service or upgrade. The modern Mac has gone right back to the bad old days of the original "toaster" models. The Mac Pro has been the lone holdout, or it was until Apple turned it into a tiny trashcan five+ years ago now.

I definitely miss the days when the Mac was a powerful yet affordable PC alternative. Today's Mac is a damned joke.

[johnbancroft]

I have a heavily modified 2009 Mac Pro, that I use as my daily driver for editing 10 bit 4K movies in FCPX and Davinci Resolve. Next week it will be 10 years old, and is still a beast, SPEC: 2x 6 Core 3.46GHz CPU'S, 500gb M.2 SSD BOOT, 4 X10TB internal raid. 64GB ram, two 16GB AMD VEGA Frontier Edition, Liquid Cooled GPU's (Running from an external PSU) PS. with the new Mojave OS, you can boot from NVME drives.. not bad for a 10 year old machine. still upgradable. PS I do have a 16 core AMD Threadripper Windows PC as well, for Resolve only, but I still prefer to work on the Mac Pro.