New Apple Mac Pro Unboxing & Impressions!  #Helpful Post

now I told myself I was not going to

make any trashcan jokes but my nephew

who has no idea what a Mac Pro is saw

the box and asked me what it was so I

told him it's a computer what does it

look like and of course he said it looks

like a trashcan

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guys johnathan here TLD hope you guys

are doing well I am back just in the

nick of time before the new year with an

unboxing he just released and completely

redesigned 2013 Mac Pro now I was able

to get a hold of the higher end of the

to baseline Mac Pro configuration so

this is loaded with a 3.5 gigahertz six

core Intel Xeon CPU 16 gigs of ram dual

AMD FirePro d5 hundreds and 256 gigs of

pcie-based flash storage this comes in

priced at $39.99 u.s. as opposed to the

$29.99 model which is going to get you a

quad-core CPU 12 gigs of ram dual AMD

FirePro d 300 and the same 256 gigs of

pcie-based flash storage now jump it

into the unboxing just to give you guys

an idea of how small not only the Mac

Pro is but the packaging as well I'm

about 511 and you can see the Box barely

comes up to my knee so you do not have

to be Chuck Norris to one hand a Mac Pro

box anymore so in the front of the box

we have one strip that we got to pull

open that's going to give us access to

the inside of the box of course

everything is packaged nice and cleanly

on top there is one piece of styrofoam

protecting the Mac Pro and I got to say

these sounds of styrofoam drives me

crazy if anyone else is like that let me

know with a comment down below now

taking out the Mac Pro for the first

time aesthetically it's got a lot more

gray than the pictures depict it almost

has kind of a glossy gunmetal look to it

and as far as the weight goes from

everything I've read I thought it was

going to be a lot heavier so I was

pleasantly surprised with how light it

was to me aside from that there's not

much else there's no keyboard no mouse

we have some literature which comes with

a Quick Start Guide and matching black

Apple stickers by the way if anybody

wants these I know they're kind of

limited just leave me a comment down

below and I will randomly pick someone

and mail these off to you aside from

that last step we have the power cable

and I'm actually curious what you guys

think why did Apple not include a

keyboard or mouse with the Mac Pro was

it to cut down cost to cut down

packaging or do they assume that people

who are buying the Mac Pro are going to

use something different now I will admit

I do not use Apple mice or keyboard on

the daily but for that price it would

have been nice to get something you know

maybe like a limited edition black Magic

Mouse just to have something to go along

with the Mac Pro now taking a closer

look at the Mac Pro you can see how

small looks on the desk next to a

27-inch iMac on the backside next to the

Apple logo there's a little lock so if

you slide it open that

to give you access to pool the top of

the Mac Pro off and because of how it

looks you almost kind of expect it to

sound like this when you take it off it

almost kind of reminds me of that scene

from Jurassic Park but in all

seriousness and whether you want to make

trashcan jokes or r2d2 jokes I think

deep down once you take a look inside

you got to admit it is a beautiful piece

of engineering and contrary to initial

reports pretty much everything inside

the Mac Pro is upgradable especially the

flash storage and the RAM so we're

looking at a total of four memory slots

two on each side across all Mac Pro

models this configuration comes loaded

with four for four and four gig sticks

which makes sixteen and you can't

upgrade any of these Mac Pro's to 64

gigs now I actually did pick up some

third-party memory to upgrade the RAM on

this Mac Pro so if anybody is interested

in seeing a video on how to do that let

me know by hitting that like button now

on the flip side of the Mac Pro taking a

look at the ins in the outs we have a

combined digital and audio outputs right

next to the headphone jack below that is

four USB 3.0 ports six Thunderbolt 2

ports dual gig Ethernet ports HDMI and

the power button now I got a question on

Twitter asking how it is to access the

back once the Mac Pro is sitting on your

desk and it's actually pretty easy the

top kind of acts as the handle so you

just spin it around the back actually

lights up and then you have access to

all your ports and just for kicks to

give you guys one more example of how

small the Mac Pro is here is how it

looks stacked up to the Galaxy Note 3

you can see the note 3 it's more than

half the size of the Mac Pro and for

even more fun it is shorter than that

Walking Dead Season 2 limited edition

blu-ray that you guys have seen in some

of my past videos now for my set up in

the time being I don't have a dedicated

monitor or a thunderbolt display so I'm

using my iMac as the display for the Mac

Pro I'm going to use that in the

meantime while I benchmark the two

against each other and then decide which

route I want to go whether that's going

first under will display or taking the

plunge for a 4k monitor so let me know

what you guys think I should do with a

comment down below initial impressions

are a runs very very very quiet I

actually cannot hear it over my iMac

which is not allowed to begin with so

because there are no moving parts inside

the Mac Pro and the way it dissipates

heat up through the top once I combine

this with a monitor it's going to be a

near silent setup now I will be doing

extensive testing and benchmarking

comparing this not only against two iMac

but other Mac Pro models but as far as

initial results go for geek

64bit we're looking at a single core

score 36 12 and a multi-core score of

twenty thousand seven hundred and ten

now as far as the flash storage speeds

go those were insane we're looking over

eight hundred megabytes per second on

the right side and over nine hundred

megabytes per second on the read side of

things so we are near gigabyte per

second transfer speeds on this Mac Pro

so if there is anything you guys want to

see covered in the benchmarks the

testing the comparisons obviously the

full review let me know with the comment

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five at show face now I actually use

this Mac Pro to edit this entire video

and while I didn't get a chance to use

any 4k footage I use untranslated

unoptimized AVC HD footage which can get

shaky at times and the Mac Pro handle it

like a champ I know there's a lot of

applications that aren't optimized to

take advantage of the dual GPUs yet but

Final Cut Pro really uses them and as

you can see I'm just throw an effect

after effect after effect on here and as

you can see I'm not getting any dropped

frames now if you guys have any

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