Whereas we sit round and look forward to Apple to lastly launch a brand new Mac Professional with Apple silicon (you promised, Apple), we are able to sit and reminisce about Mac Execs of yore. (I do know, nothing will cease us from reminiscing even after Apple releases a brand new Mac Professional, however humor me.) And the one Mac Professional that Mac customers like to hate is the 2013 Mac Pro, affectionately referred to as the “Trash Can” Mac due to its resemblance to the receptacle and the sentiments of detestation customers had towards it.
However over time, these emotions have turned to appreciation, and possibly you’ve grow to be so keen on it now that you simply want you should purchase one. Properly, now we have excellent news for you: You’ll be able to nonetheless purchase a 2013 Mac Professional direct from Apple with a full one-year guarantee. And better of all, you may pay for it in British kilos.
Are you offered? Then head on over to the Apple Refurbished and Clearance Retailer on the Apple U.Ok. web site. There one can find a 2013 Mac Pro for £5,149 (about $6,400 in U.S. {dollars}) with its blue Add to Bag button simply screaming at you to click on it.
What does all that cash get you? A 12-core, 2.7GHz Intel Xeon E5, 64GB of RAM, 1TB SSD, and twin AMD FirePro D700 graphics processors with 6GB of GDDR5 VRAM every. That is the maxed-out mannequin that was accessible when the 2013 Mac Professional was launched, and its unique worth (which I truly wrote about nearly 10 years ago) was $9,599 within the U.S. So that you save almost $3,000!
One draw back, nonetheless: You’ll be able to’t set up macOS Ventura on it since Apple stopped supporting Mac Execs made previous to 2019. So no Stage Manager for you.
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Apple’s refurbished merchandise undergo a “rigorous refurbishment course of previous to sale,” so this Mac Professional will certainly be in like-new situation, even in spite of everything this time. Apple even gives AppleCare for £299! Nevertheless, it appears like this U.Ok. retailer gives free supply and in-store pick-up solely within the U.Ok.–however in case you name Apple with a bundle of money I’m certain cargo to the U.S. will be organized.
The 2013 Mac Professional could be Apple’s most notorious Mac. Apple’s interpretation of a mini tower created fairly a stir with its distinctive cylindrical design, the quantity of processing energy in its compactness, and its lack of expandability. Apple ultimately returned to an expandable tower design in 2019, however the 2013 mannequin left an indelible mark on the business.
