Now a few years since the Mac Pro’s launch we have seen multiple generations of Apple Silicon and they are impressive. It did get costly and this configuration with an 8-core CPU ended up costing $13,000. You had to get some serious upgrades in there to make it as good as you might want it to be for the price. When the Mac Pro was released in 2019 it was the best option for creatives – if you could afford it. He pits a base $599 Mac mini with M2 chip up against a $13,000 Mac Pro. If you are curious about the performance potential of each machine we have Michael Tobin to thank for a comparison. When the Pro was released it was a very powerful machine when configured properly, but does that price hold up against the new, even more affordable M2 Mac mini? While the Mac mini is getting its second Apple Silicon update the Mac Pro is still sitting around with older Intel chips.

Perhaps surprisingly it was the diminutive Mac mini.

Apple has finally packed the M2 chip (and the brand-new Pro variant) into a desktop computer.

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