One theme among several of the pros we talked to: many are currently not using a Mac Pro and instead using an iMac and or MacBook Pro because of the aging Mac Pro hardware (and some have jumped to Hackintosh). MacPhun VP Kevin La Rue suggested “a quick connection of several Mac Pros and simultaneous work of several users,” something he said would benefit both the company’s developers and end-users of its photo editing software.įor long-time Mac user Aaron Blaise, an Animation Feature Film Director who spent 20+ years at Disney, Apple Pencil support on Mac and compatibility with Cintiq tablets was perhaps not so surprisingly on his wish list in addition to easily expandable storage and upgradeable graphics for video.
As IK Multimedia CTO Davide Barbi pointed out, for example, pros in audio production would like it to remain as silent as the current design for use in studios, an area MacBook Pros still can’t compete. We also heard a few other interesting thoughts and feature requests beyond upgradeable components. Pros don’t all want the same things, but it’s quite clear after talking to them that truly upgradeable CPUs and GPUs will be a must. Most are hoping for standard slots for upgradable components that aren’t just limited to few Apple-approved options, something that’s not necessarily a given based on the information Apple has revealed so far. If you ask the pros, most seem to agree they’d be happy if Apple just returned to the old “cheese-grater” tower that long served them well before the current design introduced in 2013, although with a smaller and more modern implementation.
While Apple announced that it’s developing a “modular” Mac Pro of sorts, we still don’t know anything about what form it will take and just how upgradeable or modular it will be. This time I’ve asked the pros– iOS and Mac developers, photographers, audio engineers, animators and more– what they want from the promise of a modular Mac, along with the display Apple also announced it’s working on. Last time I asked the Hackintosh community what they want to see in Apple’s pre-announced modular Mac Pro to find out what could win back the pros that have abandoned Apple’s hardware.
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