APPLE MAC PRO 2013 USED PROFESSIONAL

Swinging back to the ports for a moment, these include headphone and mic jacks, four USB 3.0 sockets, six Thunderbolt 2 connections, dual Gigabit Ethernet ports and an HDMI 1.4 port. If you do carry this around by hand, be prepared to wipe off some smudges now and again. In fact, that might not be such a bad idea: The glossy aluminum finish is also quite the fingerprint magnet, much more so than any other Apple products we've seen. Left uncovered, you'll want to handle it gingerly, of course, but if you keep the original box with the foam inserts, you should have no problem carrying it in the crook of your arm.

Speaking of the sort, the machine is light enough, at 11 pounds, that you could conceivably take it with you to your next shoot. And if you have enough room for a landline, you can probably get away with using the Mac Pro in other small spaces, like a music stage or the corner of a film set. So if you have room for a landline, you almost certainly have room for the Mac Pro. To give you some perspective, the Pro stands around half as tall as a 27-inch monitor, like Apple's own Cinema Display, and has roughly the same footprint as an office phone. For whatever reason- the photography on Apple's site, perhaps - it feels smaller and shorter than I imagined it. All told, the Mac Pro is a compact little thing, standing 9.9 inches tall and measuring 6.6 inches in diameter.

Then, of course, you turn the thing around and notice the Apple logo, power button and a cutout in the anodized-aluminum exposure, making it easy to access the various ports. Between that and the glossy gunmetal 'Space Gray' finish, it does indeed look like some sort of futuristic wastepaper basket. Starting with the shape, which seems to have earned it so much ridicule, the Mac Pro is basically a squat little cylinder, with a large circular opening up top where the heat creeps out. If the Mac Pro really does look like a trash can, as everyone says, it's much nicer than any rubbish bin I've ever owned. Either way, you'll want to read on to see how this thing actually performs (though you probably already have an idea). Or maybe you're just like my colleagues here at Engadget, who don't need one, and won't ever buy one, but covet it just the same.

APPLE MAC PRO 2013 USED PROFESSIONAL

If you're a professional photographer, videographer, audio engineer, animator or what-have-you, you might actually be considering spending $2,999 on one of these - maybe as much as $9,599, if you have the means. In short, these are specs that bring the Mac Pro into the modern age - and make it ready to handle the coming onslaught of 4K content. Redesigned from the ground up, it's now much smaller and lighter, with a space-age cylindrical shape, an overhauled cooling system that's significantly quieter and a spec sheet that includes standard dual GPUs, PCIe SSDs, 802.11ac WiFi, up to 64GB of RAM and the latest Intel Xeon processors, once again going up to 12 cores. Finally, though, Apple released an updated version, and it addresses a little more than just the wireless card and I/O options. As of summer 2012, it was missing Apple's own Thunderbolt ports, not to mention 802.11n WiFi. It would be an understatement to say that Apple's Mac Pro workstation was getting a little long in the tooth.

Apple mac pro 2013 used