The company is doing its best to signal a renewed commitment to pro Mac users, and it’s pretty fun to think about the Mac platform in terms of expandability and performance again. Competition is good for everyone, after all. But putting out a new Mac Pro of this caliber is just the first step in a much longer race.
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The company is doing its best to signal a renewed commitment to pro Mac users, and it’s pretty fun to think about the Mac platform in terms of expandability and performance again. Competition is good for everyone, after all. But putting out a new Mac Pro of this caliber is just the first step in a much longer race.
It's pretty clear that if you consider all the upgrade options the Mac Pro is the most powerful of the two Macs compared here, but this isn't altogether surprising when you consider that Apple intended the Mac Pro to be its most powerful Mac.
We can safely say that the Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR levelled up (excuse the pun) what we could do within the timeframe we had on the Jumanji project. As a complicated single animation scene, we were able to watch the sequence in real-time with the full resolution assets and their textures. We could quickly make fixes and changes, and save out a play blast to showcase to the client (saving out at 139fps).