The short answer is, “It depends.” When the new Mac Pro was announced this past summer, the initial reactions were, to put it mildly, polarized. Does it live up to its name as a professional’s Mac? Whatever you call it, it’s the company’s new flagship computer-its halo car, if you will-and we’ve been putting it through its paces. Apple calls it the Mac Pro (Late 2013) a snarky reviewer might call it the Mac Pro (Almost 2014). Higher-end configurations quickly get expensiveīack in June, when Apple gave us a preview of the new Mac Pro, the company said it would ship “later this year.” Here we are, just a few days shy of 2014, and the new Mac Pro has arrived.Single-core performance not substantially better (and sometimes worse) than that of other current Macs.
