For consumers, the $5,000 entry price is a very high barrier.
Of course, the pricing is not for the faint in heart. Expandability is the name of the game with the only Mac that has actual PCI-Express slots, the Mac is built to be used and abused for years to come.
Dual 10 GB ethernet with lights out management support so you can remotely control the Mac Pro through the network, even when it’s off. 8 TB internal storage and option to add drive bays. The Mac Pro, even when introduced in 2019, still has very impressive spec even by today’s standard: 28-core Xeon processor. Design wise might not change, but the internals will be totally different. It is truly Intel’s last hurrah to court Apple into its fold, but alas, the writing was on the wall for a long while before that. The 2020 27” iMac is the last Intel iMac that Apple introduced and the specs are quite impressive: up to 10th Gen Core i9 chip, 128 GB of RAM, a Radeon Pro graphic cards, 8 TB SSD, 10GB ethernet, optional $500 Nano texture to reduce glare. Might make a comeback as lower priced alternative of the Mac Pro. The iMac Pro, discontinued when the Mac Pro appeared. It was people who needed a beefier Mac Mini and quite popular with people who needed a cheap Mac server or part of a render farm.
Upgrade options include an i7, 1TB SSD and 64GB of RAM, all has to be done during order since everything is soldered down. The 2018 space grey Mac Mini runs on an 8th generation Core i5 with 256GB SDD and 8GB of RAM. Mac Mini Space Grey, which denote the higher end Mac Mini. The higher end space grey Mac Mini (last updated in 2018!!), the larger 27” iMac (last updated in 2020) and the all powerful workstation level Mac Pro (last updated in 2019, but with new graphic cards in 2021). What they are replacingĪs it was mentioned before, there’s only 3 Macs remaining in Apple’s lineup that still run Intel. In this article, we will explore what’s left that Apple needs to replace, what Apple needs to do and what kind of performance that we can expect from these final Macs. However, the final 3 Macs might be the most powerful statement by Apple to show that it had made the right choice to go to their own solution. Most popular Macs are the MacBook Air and the MacBook Pro, while the starter 24” iMac is a solid all-in-one desktop solution. By sales volume, most of the Macs are now running on Apple Silicon. This allows you to connect multiple Mac Minis to the Jellyfish for high speed editing, transcoding, rendering, and copying.As of the end of 2021, and one year on in Apple’s Mac transition to Apple Silicon, we are now only left with 3 final Macs that are still sold new and still running on Intel. Our Jellyfish line of servers allows for direct connections over 10GbE to the Mac Mini. At LumaForge, we're very excited for 10GbE. This makes the Blackmagic eGPU and eGPU Pro great accessories for those wanting to super power any Mac, including the 2018 Mac Mini. MacOS Mojave recently made eGPU support for apps like Final Cut Pro X possible. The new Blackmagic eGPU Pro can now be connected to the Mac Mini.
Another benefit for filmmakers are the four Thunderbolt 3 Ports. This is great for DITs who need to transcode dailies on-set, or VFX teams that are exporting complex image sequences. For the sake of the Mac Mini, this means high-performance render farms can be created with a small footprint. It appears that Apple is standardizing on 10GbE for network connectivity. The Mac Mini now has 6-core i5 and i7 processors, up to 64GB of RAM, and up to 2TB of high-speed flash storage, and can be configured with 10GbE for connecting to network storage.
While it isn't being called the "Mac Mini Pro", it certainly has plenty of features directed at professional filmmakers and video teams. The brand new Mac Mini comes in space gray, just like the iMac Pro.
Apple announced a new Mac Mini at an event in New York in October.