> This looks like a product meant to serve a very niche market.
The Mac Pro always was a niche-market device for professionals with big compute needs in a workstation and money to burn.
> At that cost level though, the system will have to outperform anything you can find on the windows side.
You can count on that. It's Apple. Not only is the M2 designed to outperform any other desktop-class chip out there, but they've also bought out almost all of TSMC's entire 3nm process capacity, shutting Intel, AMD, and other ARM vendors out of the highest tier of CPU performance entirely.
The Mac Pro always was a niche-market device for professionals with big compute needs in a workstation and money to burn.
> At that cost level though, the system will have to outperform anything you can find on the windows side.
You can count on that. It's Apple. Not only is the M2 designed to outperform any other desktop-class chip out there, but they've also bought out almost all of TSMC's entire 3nm process capacity, shutting Intel, AMD, and other ARM vendors out of the highest tier of CPU performance entirely.