Video card options for the cMP obliterate the top end options on the trashcan Mac.Īnd the cMP also has tons of additional storage space with room for 2 optical drives, additional power supplies, slots for multiple PCI cards ( e.g., video), drive bays for four 3.5” drives, etc. For storage, you can get larger capacities ( e.g., 2TB, 4TB, and up) as well as way faster SSDs ( e.g., running at near 6GB/sec). In most every other important way, the cMP simply trounces the trashcan Mac. For example, with regard to top end performance, processor-wise, you can get a maxed out 12-core 3.46GHz cMP model that is just as fast as the top end 12-core 2.7GHz trashcan Mac.

Right now, a cMP simply spanks the trashcan Mac's performance. Those machines are just better than the trashcan Mac.

The latest 2010 and (meaninglessly bumped) 2012 cMP models are particularly coveted in forums like Mac Rumor's Mac Pro forums and holding on to their values well if you look around eBay or Other World Computing.Īnd for good reason. In fact, a lot of professional Mac users are still clutching to their aluminum tower 'classic' Mac Pros ('cMP'). Posted by MacRumors' forum member zephonic: For real pros, it's a plain and simple failure.

While its trashcan form factor may work well for some (perhaps, as a new Mac mini pro, or maybe Mac Pro mini), it's inadequate for traditional Mac creatives/professionals. I think the 'new' Mac Pro ('trashcan Mac') is a joke and it's not just because calling a, once again, forgotten and near abandoned 2013 model 'new' in late 2015 is the kind of air-quote irony loved by techno hipsters.

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