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I'm Dan acrimony we are here with the new Mac Pro desktop from Apple this is a radical redesign of the concept of a professional desktop it's meant to replace that big boxy Mac Pro that you've probably seen in your office's seen other people with few years that design has not changed in a long time what Apple has done here is take essentially the same high-powered professional components and boil them down into this small cylinder that is about 1/10 of the size also much lighter and part of the way they do that is by fitting everything inside around kind of a three-sided triangular heatsink slash motherboard you have RAM over here and over here that's very easily accessible your video cards are over here and here this is the solid state hard drive you know it is user accessible there's not really any reason to go in and replace that right now but at least that's something else you can get to this is not nearly as expandable as a full tower desktop but at least there are some user accessible parts inside and they combine that with a single fan that's also very quiet and it kind of sucks hot air up and you can feel a little bit of it coming out of the top of the system here and the end effect is you have something that is as powerful or more so than the big gigantic Mac Pro's but it's very small very portable can really sit next you on your desk rather than like under it or in a closet somewhere even though there's a very high design product it's been described as looking like anything from a small beer keg to a part of a jet engine all Clan is sort of like Darth Vader black this is not really intended for the same consumers who would go out and buy let's say a MacBook Air or even an iMac it's intended for people who edit video and do a lot of facial graphic design or 3d graphics and things like that that said you could use this as your home computer but it's a pretty hefty investment starts at $3,000 and goes up from there I'm almost afraid to tell you that this particular configuration has to the higher-end MD FirePro graphics cards it's got 64 gigs of RAM it's got a 1 terabyte solid-state hard drive all that adds up to about 8 thousand dollars but the $29.99 configuration is also plenty powerful the big conceit here is that a lot of your accessories and new stuff is going to be added externally through the 6 Thunderbolt 2 ports that are in the back of this uh so you have gigantic harddrive arrays and other things that use they're going to be external rather than internal whereas an old Mac Pro you might have just opened up the side and put in you know a card the system is being very heavily pitched as being for 4k video use and you can connect up to three 4k monitors at once using either the Thunderbolt 2 or the single HDMI port that's in the back it's got some of the new upgrades we're starting to see from a lot of PC makers it's got the faster 802 dot 11ac Wi-Fi it's got PCIe connection for the SSD drive so that should make that a little bit faster as well it's still very early days for the new Mac Pro which is a fairly radical reimagining of what it means to be a high-powered professional desktop computer so we're going to have to take some more time run a lot of tests run Final Cut 10 on it out put all kinds of 4k video to different displays but at least in our very initial hands-on testing that certainly feels like a very fast very powerful very sexy a high-powered pro-grade desktop computer I'm Dan Ackerman and that is the Apple Mac Pro