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hey what's up guys I'm kay PhD here and a while back I made a deer Apple video basically begging Apple to update the aging Mac Pro then a little while after that I included the Mac Pro in a top-five most overpriced tech video and I even did a five-part video series called the hackintosh pro project which was basically to create an alternative to the machine that Apple just would not update the Mac Pro but here we are in 2013 and of course yesterday at WWDC Apple finally did it they finally completely overhauled and redid the Mac Pro so it's a very mind-blowing machine so if had any further ado this is a Mac Pro explain now we were first shown the preview or sneak peek of this new Mac Pro at WWDC you got a lot of oohs and ahhs for the crowd because of these weird lines and these weird curves that they were showing on the screen I will get to the design in a second but obviously it's a redesign machine completely from the bottom up this takes almost nothing other than the idea of a workstation SPECT machine from the previous generation Mac Pro so it is a Mac Pro but it's pretty much not based at all on the previous Mac Pro so one could argue that it's not really actually a Mac Pro it's just a new Apple desktop that up will called the Mac Pro to get people to stop asking for a new Mac Pro but that's not true this really is a pro machine it's a Mac Pro it doesn't feel like a successor to the very long history of Mac Pro's and power Mac's that have that same form factor but I can tell you that this is definitely a Mac Pro so the ridiculous specs of this workstation are the easiest way to tell that it is definitely a Mac Pro again as we have the same workstation grade parts inside and the most impressive part is that all the internals are 2 to 3 times faster than the previous generation highest end Mac Pro which was not a slow machine at all we're going to dual Xeon CPUs of course dual CPU support is classic for the Mac Pro's and also dual AMD FirePro workstation GPU so these are extremely high-end graphics cards but again workstation grade graphics cards this new Mac Pro also moves from regular SATA SSDs which is what I'm using in the hackintosh 2 PCI base storage and PCI Bay storage is very very fast if you've seen them already you know you can get 1.25 gigabytes per second transfer speeds so I'm used to six or seven hundred megabytes per second tops with my SATA SSDs 1.2 gigabytes per second for PCI base SSD this is going to be really really fast storage and you also have extremely fast RAM in this new Mac Pro coming in at 1866 megahertz instead of 1600 megahertz and lastly when you flip it around to the back the new Mac Pro has a much improved IO array a whole bunch of new ports that are awesome that the old Mac Pro did not have so you have four USB 3.0 ports you also have six Thunderbolt 2.0 ports and you also get HDMI and two Gigabit Ethernet ports thrown in there so I like that there's HDMI that's valuable and we'll talk about that in a second but definitely a huge io improvement the whole point of a desktop computer is the ability to expand and upgraded in the future as parts get better you can put in better parts into your desktop now when we take a look at Apple's 2013 computer lineup you'll see that there's pretty much no upgrade ability in that sense and for years the Mac Pro was the last Apple machine that you could upgrade the GPU the hard drive the RAM you could upgrade the previous generation Mac Pro and now this the CPUs the GPUs the storage basically all the memory everything is basically guaranteed soldered to or glued to the circuit board there is pretty much no expandability so how do they expect this to be a pro machine apple says thunderbolt and that is why there are six Thunderbolt 2.0 ports on the back of this new Mac Pro that's why they have an entire page on the Mac Pro's website dedicated to trying to convince you how awesome Thunderbolt 2.0 is and that's why they have that line on their site that says that this is the most expandable Mac yet it's because they want you to believe that Thunderbolt is a way of expansion in the future I don't get me wrong Thunderbolt is good I love 20 gigabit per second transfer speeds I love the daisy-chaining ability and everything that's great but that means that your storage all now has to be external via those donor well 2.0 ports which means your nice simple looking mac pro setup could go from looking like this to looking a lot more like this meaning you aren't going to have a very clean set up if you tend to use a lot of storage you can't even throw a new hard drive in there you have to use external expand if I want to add a two terabyte hard drive I can't just shove it in like I could in any of the previous macros you have to use an external storage which is a bit of a con I would say now the real head spinners here with this new Mac Pro are the size and the design the size and the design are the most impressive very different things about this versus the rest of apples lineup on the rest of the computers that exists right now the size is mind-blowing okay it's nine point nine inches tall by six point six inches wide and that's really small okay by the studio monitors I have right here are bigger than the new Mac Pro in fact if you want your mind blown you want to know what matches the size of the new Mac Pro in terms of height and width the Nexus 10 the Mac Pro is the size of the Nexus 10 okay if you have a 10 inch tablet just hold it up and think about that it's a Mac Pro I could punt a Mac Pro across the room you couldn't even get close to doing that with the old Mac Pro's so this size yeah mind blowing this tiny design is made possible by what Apple calls a thermal core basically long story short instead of having individual heat sinks on all the different parts that need to be cooled like the CPU to GPU etc they have one giant heatsink in the center in the shape of a triangle that all the different parts connect to so everything cools at once and all the cool air and warm air radiates out the top through a single fan it's a neat concept and it's a great way of eliminating the need for a bunch of different radiators and heat sinks and fans and things like that now the design is another interesting thing and I happen to think that that's the most interesting part of the Mac Pro it may not be the prettiest machine in the world we've seen some hands-on of it at WWDC at a single one but it's a cylinder so look around your room you probably have square corners all around your room you probably have your square computer up against a square wall and it's probably underneath your desk or up against your desk on a square wall surface this computer is a cylinder it's forcing itself to not be up against the wall or in a corner of your room it's forcing itself to be a round cylinder sitting on your desk and that's kind of what Apple wants this is kind of the marketing move to get it on the desks of people who are using it and get it on the desks of all the workstations that happened it start employing them but the handles that were on top of the old Mac Pro will now come in remove that little scoop that goes into the top that makes it look like Darth Vader's trashcan or something or r2d2 for that matter it's an interesting design I don't really like the fact that it's glossy if you saw it at WWDC the inside is matte black but when you put the cover on the trash can looking cover is glossy on the outside doesn't look all that pro to me but I'll probably end up putting some designs on it anyway to make it look a little bit better than that so that's the Mac Pro it's got the specs of the future and the design of some weird creation or collaboration but honestly it's an interesting machine and I like the fact that it's so powerful and it'll have the specs to be able to according to Apple edit 4k video while rendering effects in the background while connected to up to three 4k monitors that's the specs of the future right there because that's the setup of the future editing 4k video on 4k displays either way I can't wait to get my hands on one if you can't either definitely leave a thumbs up on this video below I can't wait to put this on my desk and actually start to show you guys it in person with some boxing's and reviews and tests and things like that but until then definitely subscribe for the upcoming videos and more content that I have on the way and thank you for watching and I will talk to you guys in the next video you