so the new macbooks they really are a great all-around package you kind of can't go oh god
dad you you scared me there ah this thing is so creepy it's always popping up
oh man i forgot about this the trash can mac pro this guy uh it's just been a thorn in apple side
for eight years now and it's still not going away these things are still out here they're still
overpriced and in today's video i want to show you guys why this thing is just completely dead
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be able to completely disassemble this machine and reassemble it if you so choose to or you
could leave it disassembled out of rage in spite so this is my trashcan mac pro and it is the best
that money can buy it has every single upgrade that you could think of it's got the 12 core xeon
processor it has 128 gigabytes of ddr3 ecc ram it has the pretty hard to find radeon firepro d700
dual graphics and it has a two terabyte ssd so this thing is pretty crazy in fact when this mac
pro came out in 2013 you couldn't even configure it with these specs you couldn't go above 64
gigabytes of ram and one terabyte of storage so this would have been ten thousand dollars
plus another several thousand dollars in upgrades back in 2013 but my particular one was only bought
like four or five years ago so it's not even really that old apple sold this generation of
mac pro for a whopping six years and in those six years they changed absolutely nothing at all and
so even though this is an eight-year-old machine this is only a five-year-old machine and some
are only two years old it's kind of sad isn't it i don't know who was buying these things in 2019 but
some people did and as a result of that if you go on ebay the prices for these don't make any sense
whatsoever you might be surprised to see that machines in the spec range like mine
still fetch upwards of two thousand almost three thousand dollars in some cases and this to me
is just shocking i can't imagine why anyone would spend that type of money on a machine with this
kind of age and reputation but if we really want to understand why this machine
is worthless we have to explain why it's worth so much paradoxically our engineering team
has spent quite a bit of time thinking about the technology available today
and what could be possible for the future of a pro desktop can't innovate anymore my ass
the processor graphics memory storage are all built around a new unified thermal core well
the simple answer is that as powerful mac desktops go there just aren't that many options out there
you can have the trashcan mac pro you can get a 2018 mac mini an m1 mac mini or the 2019 thousand
dollar mac pro that's only four options and the intel mac mini i would avoid the six thousand
dollar mac pro that's its own thing so you either buy an m1 mac mini or you buy this those are your
only two like desktop options what the heck what's that all about apple perhaps the reason why these
things have held their value so well is that there's literally just nothing else to buy but
that brings us over to the other side of the frame here why i've had this macbook open the entire
time because now the m1 pro and m1 max chips are here and well i think we need to do a little bit
of comparison to see how this 10 000 plus mac pro holds up to these chips so to find out i
ran the same benchmarks that i ran when testing out the new macbooks on the mac pro over here
yeah starting with cinebench r23 the 12 core mac pro is beaten even by the base model
14 inch and by a pretty noticeable margin and then if you look over at cinebench single core
it's not even remotely close 678 compared to 15 32 that's unbelievable moving over to geekbench 5
in the multi-core test once again just absolutely annihilated by everything same thing in the single
core same thing even in geekbench 5 compute remember we've got dual d700 graphics cards
in the mac pro over here they're even beaten by the base 14 core gpu in the 14 inch macbook pro
and that applies in real world applications as well if we look at shadow of the tomb raider we
only got 35 fps on the d700 mac pro whereas even the base model 14 core was able to get 51 fps
in some other graphics benchmarks like gfx bench the aztec high tier saw once again absolute
annihilation of the d700 which got strangely even worse in gfx bench manhattan this thing scored
absolutely shockingly low same thing in t-rex it was it was like ridiculous how much the new
stuff is beating this thing by same over basemark gpu 2248 it was half the score of the 14 core gpu
in the 14-inch macbook pro i mean it's just ridiculous how anemic this thing is and this
is a metal supported gpu right so it's not like we're running on like an outdated api it it's just
old and bad if we jump back in and take a look at some real world applications this is where we can
really see the difference that optimization makes because apple has always been about optimizing
their hardware when this thing came out in 2013 it was quite well optimized and that was one of
its strong suits but today optimization with m1 max and m1 pro is just completely on a different
level so to start we ran some tests in blender in the longer classroom test the 14 inch base model
handily beat by almost 30 seconds the 12 core and then the high respect m1 max's just absolutely
smoked it by multiple minutes weirdly though in the bmw render this was the only test where the 12
core mac pro beat any of the new macbooks at all it beat the 14 inch base model by just 5 seconds
but blender isn't really all that well optimized for apple silicon so that result probably isn't
gonna stay the same for very long in the blender bmw gpu test well it wasn't even close once again
the mac pro got absolutely stomped on and the same thing happened in the blender mr elephant eevee
render absolute annihilation moving over to final cut pro in the render of our 4k 10-bit 60 fps
clip i mean i have no words this is what happens when you build in dedicated media encoder and
decoders into your processors i mean it's just ridiculous and the same thing in the export it's
it's a completely different world and guys it just it just keeps going you want to see you
want to see davinci resolve you want to see what davinci resolve looked like take a look
oh no
why you were ten thousand dollars two years ago i almost feel bad for it you know
it's it's trying its hardest you can feel all the hot air coming out the top it
it it really wants to do good it's like did i did i do it did i did i make it work and and
then you're just like no buddy you're not even close so when you look at these numbers overall
we had one test where the the absolute loaded most powerful mac pro you can build beat
the base model 14-inch the least powerful one that you could buy
okay that is a really really interesting now i know what you might be thinking you might be
thinking luke what are you doing here why are you comparing a desktop to a laptop you said yourself
the big issue is that there's not a lot of other desktop competition if you want to have something
on your desk plugged into a monitor with a mouse and keyboard and you're not interested
in purchasing a laptop now the reason why this i think is a really good comparison
is because these chips are almost guaranteed to be coming to a mac mini near you very soon and
whether it does happen i will be so unbelievably happy but to me the craziest part right now
is how wholly completely and absolutely demolished this 10 000 computer was and yeah i get that
it's an eight-year-old architecture so it's not exactly cutting edge but mine's only five years
old and these are still selling for two thousand to three thousand dollars even today so they're
more expensive used than a new base model 14-inch macbook pro that just creamed it in every test
except for one and that test was basically a tie anyway it's crazy to think about how much power
is packed into these new macbooks that you would have had to pay so much money for just a couple
of years ago and it's not just about the power it's also about the power consumption this thing
uses about 437 watts if you combine the power used from the cpu and then both gpus 437 watts
this guy it's about 60 for an m1 pro and it just absolutely smoked it smoked it with 60 watts
you're trash apple ironically ended up boxing themselves into a cylindrical corner it just
became harder and harder to modernize this machine as time went on so apple just left it for six
years and in doing that they abandoned a pretty big and pretty compelling chunk of the market
that mid-range prosumer desktop but fortunately the good news for us is that it doesn't seem like
it's going to be like that for very long these new macbook pros have come out and have absolutely
all over the trashcan mac pro and it seems pretty likely that it's not going to be long now before
we get these chips in the mac mini and that that's just like basically perfection in my book i will
be buying one of those things in a heartbeat let me know if you are as excited as i am for
an m1 pro or an m1 max powered mac mini wow that's a mouthful oh my goodness again i'm
sorry if i sound a little weird in this video i'm still recovering from some sickness but i
gotta get some videos out there for you guys as usual make sure to like comment and subscribe let
me know what you think about the trashcan mac pro in 2021 and i will see you guys in the next video
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