I Put a GPU in the M2 Mac Pro – Apple Silicon Mac Pro Review

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2. Could it be that Apple has big plans for the Mac Pro that we are not privy to? I'd like to think the Mac Pro is the beginning of something new, not the end.

3. I’ll buy it how much

4. All the dedicated Apple pro workstations were dead tracked from the start.

5. Linus and the labs nailed it. This is a case of malicious compliance.

6. 12:44 "That's a bingo!"

7. i dont get why you would buy anything like this, i get that the performance is high, but most high performanceis needed for gaming, not a lot of the popular games can downloaded on mac, and if this isnt for gaming, than a nomal office commputer should be fine, and if its for designing games and stuff like that, a gaming computer should work just fine

8. and some people will still buy a mac pro just because its from apple

9. if you just install windows onto the computer cant you use the gpu and install the drivers for it?

10. If you don't want this mac pro i wouldn't say no for a gift

11. "why do more when you can do less"
    apple

12. i love how every benchmark the 4090 system is dominating

13. もっとゆっくり話して欲しい。

14. noobs nate gentile Channel buy Mac pro for 10000€

15. The Mac Pro has got to get it together or it’s a dead product line. The next gen needs to have something like non-proprietary expansion slots and the expansion slots to have something to make the price worth it compared to the studio.

16. Abicim naber

17. the starting msrp is downright cheap compared to the intel mac pro

18. No gpu no life xD

19. This is a video comparing the Mac Pro and the Mac Studio. The title and thumbnail are extremely misleading, even for an LTT video.

20. Do what we're seeing is that PC outperformed everything for less money.

21. Is there any legitimate way to purchase Windows 8.1 OEM key? I'm not gonna use KMSpico and DAZ loaders don't exist for 8/8.1 so gimme a link… Anyone?

22. Ok… Linus, I need you to convince Mark to go Linux. And while Markiplier is pretty happy about his M1 purchase and it does everything he needs it too. He still games on Windows 10 or worse… Windows 11. And Mark recently streamed dissing that Linux is this create code from the ground up OS and that it doesn't even-RUN GAMES. He's basing his knowledge of Linux off of 20 years ago. He's never even heard of Mint, Ubuntu, nor has heard of Steam Proton, or even how the Steam Deck is BASED on Linux. You need to inform him, or at least contact Bob to tell him that his idea of Linux is horribly outdated.

23. You should put the Nvidia 4090 on your next video and show us if it will work 😂🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🛴

24. I want it!!! I just want the cassi to build a pc in så if you want to sell it to me scratched i dont care 😅 send it to me in Sweden! Jeeeeij!!

25. Looks like that video was sponsored by Apple. LOL

26. For some reason i didn't see the part that they put the gpu in mac pro

27. 13:20
    There. Saved you 13 minutes.

28. NGL I would not be surprised if apple launches a GPU

29. Give it to me I'll put Linux on it and run Doom.

30. I would like a Mac Pro used yes please

31. WHAT A JOKE

32. why not gaming on it?,,-))

33. Ur deeply not smart at all
    It's made for a small portion of people who's work and business depend on some PCI cards like audio producers or studios
    Logically it's impossible for ltt to successfully criticise Apple

34. It was not done right… they should of only gave you one USB C to deal with and no heaphone jack while we are at it lol.

35. Man, if you have the budget for the Mac Pro, you’re better off buying two Mac Studios, and distributing loads across them.

36. You can fit a Mac Studio in a Mac Pro 😂

37. I'm surprised any of them worked at all. They were built for x86 not ARM

38. That Mac is worth more as an E-waste

39. If you don't know why they made it, then it probably wasn't for you. 😉 It was most likely made for Professionals in the Video and Audio Post sectors. The Post house that I work at is upgrading to the Mac Pros because we need the PCI expansion slots for Pro Tools HDX cards, and Fibre cards. Yes, you could use Thunderbolt expansion chassis and we did, but wanted an all in one system for out Post house. ( But I WILL be getting a M2 Mac Studio for my home studio… )

40. I think this is one of the best video's made yet about the M2 Ultra Mac Pro. I switched to Apple back in 2009. I really loved everything about it. The "playfulness" of the OS. Which honestly, seems to be gone as well. As well as the "ease of use." Which is still there in a big regard, but i loved it that Apple didn't constantly bothered me with updates like Windows did. Nowadays, it seems that Apple has been catching up when it comes to that.

    I have a 16-core 2019 Mac Pro. Which i do really love. I can at least upgrade to some of the "newer" MPX GPU's. Even though i mostly use logic Pro X. I do encounter some limits when it comes to my GPU. Which is only an AMD Radeon Pro W5700X 16 GB.

    The only use case for the "new" Mac Pro seems to be some kind of a big "storage/pro audio" computer. Anything else the Mac Studio would more than enough for indeed about 90% of the pro people.

    I'm happy that i can at least still upgrade my GPU as well as my RAM. I can also put in SSD's and audio cards and if i really want i could upgrade my CPU to a 28-core. But i don't think i'll need that.

    I do think that Apple silicon is great. But i also think that Apple should've left the Mac Pro intel based with different components available to be able to upgrade later on. At least, until they figured out a comparable way to do this with Apple silicon. It's actually pretty sad for the pro Apple users. I'm counting myself more as a "prosumer." But that doesn't mean it isn't sad for us either. Because eventually i will want to upgrade my machine as well. Which means i have only a choice between the Mac Studio or building a Windows pc again. Which i'm planning on doing anyway since i do want to start gaming on a gaming pc again.

41. A giant cheese grater

42. AVID HDX card is 5 THOUSAND dollars, not 500 dollars.

43. the most quiet video that linus made. wow it feels so good without shouting omg

44. Remember when arm SOCs and apple silicon were gonna destroy the pc architecture? Yeah, me neither.

45. Great review. Mac Studio seems like the obvious choice in most cases. My understanding is that the plan was for the M2 Extreme chip to go into the Pro, but that chip didn't work out as planned. Maybe M3 will work as anticipated and offer a great deal better performance. So, this MacPro is some kind of stopgap, but not really worth the extra price because it doesn't deliver much compared to the Studio. However, if there was a way to easily swap out the current M2 Ultra for an M3 Ultra or M3 Extreme when they become available, then buying a MacPro now would make more sense. But, it just doesn't seem like Apple really has a clear vision for where this MacPro line is going.

46. for 2 dollars i well buy it
    + shiping

47. I can't get over how the larger Mac's grill looks photoshopped on lmao.