And the performance of integrated GPUs (and even some consumer-level discrete GPUs) was relatively poor. Affordable hard drives couldn’t yet provide the massive storage capacities we see today. It wasn’t very long ago that the performance gap between consumer-level processors, such as those used in the iMac and MacBook lines, and the higher-end processors used by the Mac Pro line was vast. You can read that review for my formal evaluation of Apple’s new flagship workstation, but one thing that struck me while testing the Mac Pro is that in addition to radically changing Apple’s professional desktop line, it also illustrates the changing face of “power-user” computing for Mac users.
As the lucky guy who got to review the 2013 Mac Pro, I’ve spent quite a bit of time with it over the past week.
