>>51081143The Mac pro is a BISO (beast in specs only).
I bought my Mac Pros expecting the ease of a mac with the physical ease of owning a tower. I was wrong on both counts.
I've owned 3 of them, they are finicky, difficult to upgrade and very expensive. My first one was the original model, it had constant issues with the RAM boards and then the motherboard. Next one had constant issues with the bought-directly-from-Apple-at-a-huge-markup video card I installed. The last one was really just a filler computer I bought used for extra work and it was already obsolete when I bought it, so it was slow.
The new ones are very powerful, but the fact that they're less upgradeable and more proprietary than any other tower available is pathetic. I know they have a niche in the business/media/design market, but as a home computer they're hugely inconvenient unless you have the $$$. I would use one if it was given to me, but that's it.
I currently have a 'Sandy Bridge' i5 iMac that's been chugging along 24/7 for four years without a single issue, and when it dies I'm probably going to build a PC and use that. Apple has lost the minimalist magic it had from Jobs and is starting to become as obtuse to use as windows, so I might as well skip the overpriced proprietary hardware and get the real thing.
