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Apple’s Mac Pro ‘cheese grater’ is 19 years old, and is the best Mac ever made

The original Mac Pro is 19 years old today and people are still celebrating this old, favorite workhorse from a time when it was the clear top of Apple’s range.

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The distinctive 2006 Mac Pro

Forget looking back for a moment and instead look to the present. The current Mac Pro may have been the last Mac to transition to Apple Silicon, but it’s here — and it almost doesn’t matter.

Mac Pro has always been a niche machine because of it’s extremely high specifications, for the time, and its correspondingly even more extremely high price. But it was a niche market that needed this power and was willing to pay for it, so the Mac Pro sold well. Well, it sold.

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