Mac Pro

The new Mac Pro: purpose-built for performance

By Peter Cohen, Friday, Jun 14, 2013 a 7:25 pm

The most frequently repeated joke at WWDC about the new Mac Pro is that it looks like a trashcan or a cigarette tray. There's nothing trashy about it: it looks more like a jet turbine - an example of form following function so evident throughout Jony Ive's design catalog.

New MacBook Air uses screaming fast PCIe SSD

By Peter Cohen, Wednesday, Jun 12, 2013 a 1:27 pm

The new Mac Pro isn't the only new Mac model with PCIe-based Solid State Drive storage. The new MacBook Air, which began shipping this week as soon as it was introduced on stage at WWDC, also uses the technology, according to Ben Lovejoy at 9to5Mac.

A closer look at the new Mac Pro

By Peter Cohen, Monday, Jun 10, 2013 a 6:15 pm

Over the past few weeks I've spent a lot of time writing about the Mac Pro - how to keep it alive a while longer, its importance as Apple's most high-performance computer, and what I thought the future was likely to hold for the aging but still powerful machine.

New Mac Pro photo gallery: Inside and out!

By Rene Ritchie, Monday, Jun 10, 2013 a 3:56 pm

Here it is, the new Mac Pro, inside and out!

Apple offers sneak peek of new Mac Pro, made in the USA

By Peter Cohen, Monday, Jun 10, 2013 a 2:45 pm

"Can't innovate any more, my ass," was Phil Schiller's comment after introducing the new Mac Pro on a video at the WWDC keynote stage.

Mac Pro inventory drying up pre-WWDC? What does it mean?

By Peter Cohen, Friday, May 31, 2013 a 5:15 pm

Channel inventory of the Mac Pro entry-level model seems to be on the wane at major American retailers, according to a report from J. Glenn Künzler at MacTrast. What does it mean? Maybe something, maybe nothing.

Who needs a Mac Pro when they can get an iMac?

By Peter Cohen, Friday, May 31, 2013 a 1:28 pm

In previous editorials I've shared my opinion on the state of the Mac Pro and what the next Mac Pro could have inside. Now it's time to ask a more fundamental question: Do we need the Mac Pro at all? After all, isn't the iMac the...well...pro desktop Mac?

Mac Pro: The Next Generation - what's Apple's next heavy iron likely to have inside?

By Peter Cohen, Monday, May 27, 2013 a 2:12 pm

At some point relatively soon, Apple is going to have to put the current Mac Pro out to pasture. What's going to replace it is anyone's guess at this point, but it'd be nice to think that Apple would start with a completely fresh sheet of paper.

How to breathe new life into a dying Mac Pro

By Peter Cohen, Monday, May 20, 2013 a 3:59 pm

I'm targeting this at a very select group of readers: those of you, like me, who have Apple's most neglected Mac model. The red-headed stepchild of the Mac family. The Mac Pro. If you're limping along with an ever-aging Mac Pro, what's the best way to get some more life out of the old beast? Let's take a look.