If the Mac Pro is no longer my main system then what do I currently use? The Mac Pro Is No Longer My Main Studio Machine I used this with an Avid HDX based Pro Tools system, as well as a Rednet PCIER card for native and a load of PCIE NVME cards including a Highpoint SSD7505 hardware RAID card to access transfer speeds in excess of what the Mac Pro’s PCIE Gen 3.0 architecture would natively allow for a single drive. In the last few years I have started doing more and more video work and I initially specced this machine out with a base Radeon Pro W580X graphics card but have since upgraded to a Radeon Pro W5700X.
It is a well specced machine, it has a 3.2Ghz 16 core processor, 4TB SSD and I specced it intially out with 48GB of RAM that I upgraded to 128GB and then to 256GB. I was an early adopter of the 2019 Mac Pro which was my main machine in the studio until about 6 months ago. The 2019 Mac ProĪ bit of background here. I’d like to talk a bit about why I think this. What they announced wasn’t hugely surprising but nor was it entirely pleasing. In this article James explains why.Īpple have announced the new Mac Pro alongside an updated Mac Studio. James Richmond is a 2019 Mac Pro owner and is precisely the kind of person who should be excited about the new Apple Silicon Mac Pro. You may have read our article “ The New Mac Pro 2023 - In Name Only”, we asked an owner of a current Mac Pro and the target buyer for the new Mac Pro to explain his feelings.
