Apple scales back high-end Mac Pro plans, weighs production move to Asia

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Also frustrating... I looked at trading in my Mac Pro to Apple for the Studio Mac.

I expected to take a notable hit, in between trade-in, and Apple Silicon.

What I got was insulting.

Bought mid 2020 for $14,000 (3.2GHz 16 core, 192GB, 8TB, Radeon Pro W5700X 16GB)...

Apple offered me $1,050 to trade it in.

They're still selling that same configuration today for $300 less than I paid for it then.

You spent $14,000 for a desktop computer? What does it do that others do not?

For me, I was doing a lot of development around infrastructure automation, and prior to that large healthcare datasets. While I also deploy to cloud and other resources, having a lot of things local reduced my latency a lot (and to be clear, my work subsidized about $10K of this). The more direct answer to your question - keep on chugging along with multiple VMs running, notable Docker workloads, and such, so more the breadth of things simultaneously, rather than raw speed for any one thing.

The low-end consumer of content is more lucrative than the high-end producer of content, apparently

High-end desktops are in a weird niche

They're overkill for most uses, but also completely incapable of handling "big" problems (multi PB datasets, timely rendering of multi-hour 4k content, etc)....for that you still need to divide and conquer in the server room

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