

DVDs, Blu-Ray, CDs, hard drives, floppies and tape are all mechanical. The new Mac Pro is the first pro desktop computer that no longer uses any mechanical memory. Well, with the new Mac Pro, waiting for things to happen is history. Once they are ready to go they all run super fast, but why has the hot rod Mac always taken longer to wake up than my 12" iBook laptop from 2004? (my 12" iBook is exactly 10 years old today and still works perfectly, even the battery!) The real limitation to speed is how fast they boot up and load all my programs. I had 2 GB RAM in my Mac Pro in 2000, and it always worked super fast once all booted up, duh. If you want fast image processing, just get enough RAM and work on reasonably sized images. Even my year 2000 Power Mac dual 450 MHz G4 had no problem crunching 100 megabyte files (16-bit scans from 4x5" film) 14 years ago in Photoshop. Specifically, the only thing my previous Mac Pros didn't do fast is wake up from sleep or boot up all my programs. I'll have a lot more to say, but for now, I'm impressed that it's silent and about six times faster than my previous 2010 hex-core 3.33 GHz Mac Pro! It's got more in common with an iPad than an old-style mechanical PC you can't hurt it by moving it around as it works. It's an entirely new all-electronic way of computing it is all solid-state memory with no mechanical drives like hard drives and optical drives. It's a silent black orb that hovers over your desk and just became available after a long wait at the beginning of 2014. B&H Photo - Video - Pro Audio I use these stores.
