{"id":1896,"date":"2014-01-23T11:30:15","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T15:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mikejandreau.com\/?p=1896"},"modified":"2014-01-23T11:30:15","modified_gmt":"2014-01-23T15:30:15","slug":"late-2013-mac-pro-real-world-usage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mikejandreau.com\/late-2013-mac-pro-real-world-usage\/","title":{"rendered":"Late 2013 Mac Pro Real World Usage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By now you&#8217;ve likely heard of the new Mac Pro &#8212; whether you&#8217;ve heard to it referred to as a trash can or Darth Vader, you&#8217;ve likely heard of it. \u00a0If not, it looks like this:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1897\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1897\"  class=\" wp-image-1897 \" alt=\"Late 2013 Mac Pro\" src=\"data:image\/gif,GIF89a%01%00%01%00%80%00%00%00%00%00%FF%FF%FF%21%F9%04%01%00%00%00%00%2C%00%00%00%00%01%00%01%00%00%02%01D%00%3B\" data-layzr=\"https:\/\/www.mikejandreau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/macpro-680x1024.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"962\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1897\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Late 2013 Mac Pro<\/p><\/div>\n<p>That&#8217;s actually mine, from the unboxing photos that were taken.<\/p>\n<p>According to Apple&#8217;s original specs &#8212; and many of the reviews you may read online &#8212; it&#8217;s a powerhouse of a machine. \u00a0The specs on this outdo my previous generation (from late 2009) Mac Pro by oodles and oodles. Yes, that&#8217;s a technical term.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the model I went with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>3.5 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon X5 (the upgraded model)<\/li>\n<li>16 GB 1867 DDR3 ECC RAM<\/li>\n<li>Dual AMD FirePro D500 3072MB graphics cards<\/li>\n<li>256GB Flash Storage (I added a 2TB external drive, via Thunderbolt, as well.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Leaps and bounds above and beyond the last generation&#8217;s computer.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the reviews I&#8217;ve been seeing online focus on how quickly the new Mac Pro can output, compress, or process video &#8212; which is kind of what it&#8217;s intended for. \u00a0I don&#8217;t do any real video work &#8212; mostly web development, web browsing, email, etc &#8212; so this machine is complete overkill for my needs. \u00a0But, if you know me, I always like to have the biggest, best, newest and shiniest.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some of the things that you may be interested in, in a real world environment for the new Mac Pro. \u00a0Every day tasks that can be done faster with a machine of this caliber.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Startup time: 5.1 seconds. \u00a0That&#8217;s the amount of time between pressing the power button, all of my start up applications opening, and being able to do stuff.<\/li>\n<li>Opening Photoshop CC: 3.1 seconds. \u00a0In fact, here&#8217;s a video I made this morning of me opening Photoshop CC<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"width: 655px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-1896-1\" width=\"655\" height=\"372\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mikejandreau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/photoshop-opening.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mikejandreau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/photoshop-opening.mp4\">https:\/\/www.mikejandreau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/photoshop-opening.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Reading and writing data:\n<ul>\n<li>Reading data to the internal Flash drive is pretty fast. \u00a0According to Blackmagic&#8217;s Disk Speed Test (a widely used application to benchmark drive speeds), the write speed averages 775 MB\/s and the read speed averages 950 MB\/s<\/li>\n<li>For the external drive (over Thunderbolt), it&#8217;s a bit slower, but still pretty quick: Write: 335 MB\/s. Read: 390 MB\/s (averages)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>That means that you could copy a 4.7 gig movie file from the internal drive to the external drive in about 12 seconds. Give or take. \u00a0Impressive.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I picked my machine (named Pennyworth, as its predecessor was named Alfred. \u00a0I like Batman, sue me) on January 3rd after a bit of a snafu at the Apple Store I had it shipped to. \u00a0From what I&#8217;ve been seeing on Twitter, I&#8217;m one of the few every day people that has one of these. \u00a0Most of the other people I&#8217;ve seen with them are either people who work for tech companies who wanted to review them, video production companies, recording studios, or other industry professionals. \u00a0I&#8217;m just some guy with good taste, so I guess that&#8217;s good for me.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve likely seen (or heard) people complaining about how expensive the machine is. \u00a0And you&#8217;re right, it is costly. \u00a0But if you&#8217;re complaining that $4000 is a lot of money, you&#8217;re not the target audience for this computer. \u00a0This isn&#8217;t a $400 Dell that you can keep for a year and not care if it dies. \u00a0This is a high end, professional, and extremely powerful machine. \u00a0It&#8217;s not for the faint of heart, nor the faint of wallet. \u00a0That said, you get every penny&#8217;s worth of your money. \u00a0I haven&#8217;t had a single issue in the 3 weeks I&#8217;ve had this machine (not that I had any issues with the previous Mac Pro, either), and have been very glad that I spent the money.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t upgraded my monitors yet for two reasons:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Apple hasn&#8217;t released a new monitor in a while and their current monitor doesn&#8217;t support 4K, UltraHD or Retina resolutions. \u00a0Nor does it support USB 3.0 or Thunderbolt 2, both of which are important to me.<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s nothing wrong with the screens I have now. \u00a0I&#8217;m still working with a 30&#8243; Apple Cinema Display (from 2009) and a 24&#8243; Dell display as my secondary (in portrait mode) to my left.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Once a newer display becomes available from Apple, I&#8217;ll likely upgrade to get the new toys. \u00a0But for now, I&#8217;m a-okay with what I&#8217;ve got.<\/p>\n<p>Why does this post exist? No real reason. \u00a0I love my new computer and wanted to help answer any questions about the performance of a machine so high end that anyone considering buying one may have had. \u00a0Hopefully this helps in some way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By now you&#8217;ve likely heard of the new Mac Pro &#8212; whether you&#8217;ve heard to it referred to as a trash can or Darth Vader, you&#8217;ve likely heard of it. \u00a0If not, it looks like this: That&#8217;s actually mine, from the unboxing photos that were taken. According to Apple&#8217;s original specs &#8212; and many of the reviews you may read online &#8212; it&#8217;s a powerhouse of a machine. \u00a0The specs on this outdo my previous generation (from late 2009) Mac Pro by oodles and oodles. Yes, that&#8217;s a technical term. 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