Mac Pro (2019) - 3 Years Later!

In light of us finally getting a new (extremely disappointing) Mac Pro, I figured I'd talk about how my 2019 is holding up after 3 years. Spoiler: pretty darn well.

[Nynex]

This beast was my music rig for many years. I just upgraded from a 5700xt mpx to a 6900xt and now my windows gaming & VR rig.

[cowboy]

I just picked one of these up in like new condition for only $1200! It is a 16 core model with 96gb ram and a 2tb hard drive. I probably only have a couple of years of os updates and maybe another year after that of security updates but for $1200 it’s worth it to me. I have the 12 core model at work I bought maybe 3 years ago.

[Hypnodog_]

The case design has aged really well, it's still one of the sleekest computers I've ever seen. Hopefully you can keep it running for a long time! The new Mac Pro is essentially just a Mac Studio with a massive PCI-E backplane

[heroninja]

Would be nice if they revived the mac pro. After the unfortunate m2 ultra mac pro, even though they are probably going to kill it off, it would be nice if they did a turnaround and made an m3 extreme mac pro with more modular parts or something like that.

[alexblankenship]

As a 12 year old when this thing came out I was obsessed with the design and really wanted it but obviously wasn't going to get a $5999 thing. I can get the M2 Pro Mini now for just $1299 with a 10c CPU. I'm so glad there's more Pro level Apple desktops that cost less.

[macguru]

I think the main thing the 2023 mac pro gives you is more internal storage ... not sure if thats enough for most people. I still have my 2019 with 14TB total storage, but my everyday is an M1pro macbook in clamshell mode, 1TB inside and 12TB attached by thunderbolt (usbC) 8TB is a file bucket and 4TB is a time machine for the internal drive (the filebucket is copied elsewhere)

[Psychiatry.]

iMac 27 2020 5K ( Core i7/i9 + AMD Pro 5700 XT) is the Best Intel-Mac made by Apple for Most users. For professional use It struggles with Logic Pro (Large Projects but if you upgrade the RAM to 128GB it runs smoothly) otherwise it's a very good machine with stunning color accuracy 27" 5K display (identical to Apple Studio Display) and it's AIO with very sleek and beautiful form factor that just needs a power cable to run + it runs Windows natively (like other Intel Macs).

[Junigetsdown]

Cool Video! Would you consider a display like the Studio Display or the LG Ultrafine?

[LeeBlaske]

Lots of people can make use of the PCIe slots. NVMe SSDs on PCIe cards have incredible performance, and they work much faster inside a Mac Pro than they would in an external enclosure. That also eliminates a lot of external clutter (enclosures, wall warts, power strips and cabling). And, a lot of those external enclosures have noisy fans that are not good in a recording studio.

[TravisLohmannMusic]

i STILL want one, for music production.

[RZ]

I don‘t get why the M2 mac pro exists. They should‘ve just done another Intel upgrade until they got their M-chips where they need to be for a Pro device.

[DBLCreations]

I completely agree with you. It's a beautiful machine. I bought it as well. And even though i never regret my purchase, i start to regret it a little bit at the moment. I noticed that you can't purchase a new GPU MPX module in the Apple store. Since i'm from Belgium it's very difficult to get upgrades. I wanted a new GPU because for me, my W5700XT has been a bottleneck but i also wanted to add more thunderbolt ports. This has now become impossible and i really don't like the way Apple has treated some of their pro(sumer) customers. Even RAM is not available anymore. Though this is something you shouldn't buy from the Apple store anyway. But it shows how quickly Apple is giving up on this machine and it will only get worse. I think we might see one or two more macOS updates for it and that will be it.

[RedLeo-pfyo]

Can you make Hollywood movies with this thing?

[parnordqvist]

Is it recommended to buy this one today or will it rather soon be obsolete? Very annoying this with Apple Sillycon, it is silly, indeed.

[MrMoto]

I would love to see a Mac Pro with Apple silicon in a 2013 Mac Pro chassis. I use mine for video editing and it still does just fine. The M2 Mac Pro felt like a stop gap to fill a hole in the product line. I foresee Apple either killing it off completely or making something absolutely insane like 4 M5/M6 chips smashed together. The airflow of the case would give them a tremendous amount of thermal headroom to go wild though I don’t think it’s likely.

[shanemckenzie]

I have 16 core with dual 6800xt duos for 3d rendering with Redshift. Whilst it’s still the fastest Mac in the gpu department it hasn’t been without issues especially recently with changes Apple made to the compiler in Sonoma. Really does feel they have just forgotten about those who invested in this platform.

[wasdplayer]

I will probably wait for another Mac Pro with silicon. Fingers crossed it's going to be better in terms of upgradability than 2023 Mac Pro.

[petepowaaa]

Are you thinking of getting the apple display 27 now that the prices are down? I heard the speakers are great

[Technocrat.]

How does this Mac Pro run in windows 10 and 11, If someone was to buy it used on a deal exclusively as a Windows machine. Will the cards or modules be compatible fully with Windows?

[peter.p.]

It has been aged down with isolated environment of MacOS and insane price setting but its concept and designs are still finest monument from all above from other tech outlets. I hate apple, but also I love apple.