Apple's Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR will be available in December

[Shawn Knight]

Facepalm: Inexplicably, Apple doesn’t ship its Pro Display XDR monitor with its matching Pro Stand, or any stand at all, for that matter. That “optional” accessory will set you back another $999. Yes, that’s right, a grand for a monitor stand. Predictably, this drew quite the reaction from the WWDC crowd when it was announced on stage.

Apple on Wednesday announced that its new Mac Pro and Apple Pro Display XDR will be available in December.

Revealed in June at the annual Worldwide Developers Conference, the new Mac Pro represents the first major redesign of Apple’s high-end desktop since 2013. The Mac Pro starts at $5,999 which gets you an octa-core Intel Xeon W processor clocked at 3.5GHz, Radeon Pro 580X graphics, 32GB of RAM and a 256GB solid state drive.

The 32-inch Pro Display XDR (short for Extreme Dynamic Range), meanwhile, starts at $4,999 and features a Retina 6K display boasting a resolution of 6,016 x 3,384 (218 pixels per inch). A version with nano-texture glass commands an additional $1,000.

The VESA mount adapter goes for $199.

Apple only said its new products will be available in December. Specific pre-order dates and shipping windows weren’t mentioned although one has to hope that they’ll both be ready to go in time for the holidays.

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[VitalyT]

If Apple were to sell a rope, the soap would be an extra-pay option.

 

[dirtyferret]

If Apple were to sell a rope, a soap would be an extra-pay option.

OMG! Are you saying Apple just invented the rope??!! What line must I stand in for hours in order to get one?

 

[CrisisDog]

Me: 2009 Mac Pro, Xeon 6-Core, 24 GB RAM, Radeon 580, 2TB NVMe.

Sorry, Apple. Even with the fact that I can’t officially run macOS Catalina, I’m not able to wrap my head around that $6000 price tag, when I’m adequately spec’d at $2500.

And you no longer support CUDA.

Fail.

 

[ypsylon]

Yeah, price is utterly *****ic. Lack of nVidia support is double moronic considering that nVidia basically owns 3D market/AI/deep-learning space. Period. No amount of sugar coating from AMD fans will change that.

It seems that new MP is system only for extreme musicians, video editors and texture painters. OK, you can sculpt too, but still won't render in CUDA.