hey guys it's lance from mac sound solutions and today i'm here to talk about the death of the
cheese grader he was he was one of us he died so many men of his generation before his time
and so we commit your final mortal remains to the bosom of the pacific ocean good night sweet prince
that's right folks it's looking like the end of the road i'm sure you can hack it
and you can get it running big sur but do you want to my thoughts are you don't what i would do
is stay on mojave so you can use your old 32-bit apps be able to go backwards in time and
use those files that you have from a few years ago and keep your mac pro alive for that use it for
whatever you want but the reality is the new m1 chip that everybody is reviewing the new mac mini
the macbook air and the macbook pro 13 inch are smokin are old cheese graters even with the 3.36
xeon 56 90s you're getting beat by a lot let's just look at the numbers here my mac pro has the
xeon 5680 and at 3.33 gigahertz very close to the 5690s the single core performance on my mac pro
scores a geekbench of 643. the new m1 max score an average of 1688 that's over 2.5 times faster than
the mac pro single core performance but it doesn't end there bumping up to the multi-core performance
geekbench test and of course this is just geekbench it's not real world tests but it gives
you a good idea so we have my mac pro 12 core 3.33 gigahertz multi-core geekbench score is 6400k
the m1 multi-core 7401 now the single core performance on these new computers is
faster than any other mac any other mac including the new mac pros the new mac pros will beat it
with the multi-core the i think the eight core still beats it by a little but not by much for you
know a thousand bucks you can get the mac mini and basically almost get the same performance as an
eight core six thousand dollar mac pro for under a thousand bucks depending on your configuration
so for the money that is very impressive and i'm glad i haven't bought a new mac in
a very long time i still got my 2012 macbook pro because i like to have all those ports
i still have my cheese grater which i've upgraded to death and i have an old mac mini it's a core
2 duo so i got that a long time ago but it still runs basically i think i'm probably not going to
buy the first generation although the mac mini is very tempting as a secondary computer but what are
they going to come out with with the pro models like is apple even going to make another mac
pro or are they just going to ditch that computer all together and basically they can make something
much smaller now one of the catches here is there's no egpu support meaning you cannot connect
an external graphics card to these computers so that puts the mac pro in a weird place because
apple's now making their own gpu basically so i have a feeling that amd is a thing of the past
with macs as was nvidia so they're getting good graphics performance with these computers as well
at least with final cut which is a very preliminary thing and that's apple software and
it's been optimized to work with the m1 but you can do the bruce x export 5k export in 18 seconds
on a macbook air that's unbelievable my mac pro cheese grater with the rx 5700 xt
can do it in 20 seconds so it's actually slower than the macbook air it's pretty remarkable that
a macbook air can outperform my 12 core mac pro i mean granted it's a 2009 mac pro it's old
but it's still unbelievable now that being said we don't know what the gaming benchmarks are yet
on these new macs i have an rx 5700xt and i get a pretty good geekbench metal score with that and
opencl score and it looks like these new macs are not even half that so it remains to be seen what
kind of gaming performance we'll get with these gpus that are in the new max and what games they
can actually play so hopefully soon we'll see some benchmarks on something like tomb raider running
on these new chips and see what kind of gpu performance they really get with a regular pc game
i'm really looking forward to seeing what they're going to do on the next round um the imac
pro that thing is you know the next imac and imac pro are probably going to be ridiculous could they
put four m1 chips into a computer of course they could they might be able to fit eight of them
into like a mac pro scenario but again maybe the mac pro is going to be a thing of the past
it's going to be interesting will they come out with a new mac pro
or will they kill it my guess is they're going to kill it and they'll come out with something like
the new mac mini pro or the imac pro but will they have a pcie slotted mac when they're
not going to be supporting anybody else's gpus anymore maybe they'll create their own you know
m1 slash pro res accelerator card but that really puts the mac pros in a weird odd place and i for
one will not be buying an intel mac pro and i'm really glad i didn't dump all the money into that
because these starter macs are really close to the performance of the base model anyway the 8 core
which most people don't buy anyway but am i going to spend 10 grand on a mac pro when i could buy
10 mac minis no i'm not they are limited to 16 gigs of ram but i'm sure that'll change for
the pro models will probably be 32 and 64. um who knows we don't know yet but it's the road
map to the future is very interesting and i'm really interested to see where the mac pro goes
or if there ever is really another mac pro tower type of there'll be a pro unit but will it be
a tower with pcie slots i'm not so sure so i'm afraid the day of reckoning has finally come and
it's the death of the cheese grater the old mac pro from 2009 to 2012 will need to be laid to rest
thanks for watching my video please hit the like button if you enjoyed this you can give
me the thumbs down obviously there's a zillion people out there reviewing
these units i'm not going to go into all of that because it's already out there i can't
keep up with these people they're too quick i can't buy all this gear that they get for free
and i always say some negative things about apple so they're never going to give me a free mac
but they did give me a free iphone as in one of my other videos thank you apple um i will not
be buying the iphone 12 this year i'll wait till next year so anyway thanks for watching
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