![]() ![]() ![]() It pretty much stays out of your way, not even running until called upon. This is due to the discreet nature of the software. All that is immediately visible is the icon placed in the selected folder, or on the dock whilst open. So once your all set up and registered, you may wonder where the application has gone. I simply had to register on the CodeWeavers website and then register the software using the same details. Registering the software was a breeze too. As with the majority of OS X software, installation was simply a process of drag and drop into the applications folder. The first element of the program that needed testing, was naturally the installation and setup. During the testing of the program, I found all aspects of it to be pretty much flawless. To say that the software achieves this is an understatement to say the least. The software is designed to allow applications from other platforms, primarily Windows, to run seamlessly on Mac OS X without the need for emulators or dual booting the computer which requires a restart and wasted hard disk space. Apple already did that with the 2023 Mac Studio.I was lucky enough to get my hands on a copy of CodeWeavers’ flagship product ‘ Crossover Mac’ this week. And when that happens, the Mac Pro's days are truly numbered.Īm I ringing the death knell of the Mac Pro? No, of course not. Those people will buy the Mac Pro, of course, but how many are there, really? By sliding the Mac Pro market into such a small sliver of its former self, Apple runs the risk of making it the next Xserve - a product that has a place, but is used in such specific cases and by specific businesses that it just isn't worth keeping around. Cards that few people need, but that, for them, makes workflows possible that just can't be done by a Mac Studio. They used to buy Mac Pros because they were faster than everything else Apple made and had room for their very specific expansion cards. There are of course still people, or rather businesses, who will buy the Mac Pro. The Mac Pro market's now smaller than ever If the Mac Pro is a Mac Studio with space, who is it for? It's siill the best Mac for some, but not for many. All of that's fine and dandy.but the Mac Studio has all of that as well. I have no problem with Apple's onboard graphics because it seems to work so long as you don't want hyper-fast gaming performance. Apple silicon doesn't support RAM unless it's onboard. The same goes for RAM - the new Mac Pro has no RAM slots to speak of because you guessed it. ![]() That, of course, is because Apple silicon doesn't support GPUs that aren't hardwired in as part of those fancy M2 Ultra chips. But do you know what you won't be putting in there? New GPUs. Specialist video and audio houses will have cards you've never heard of just waiting to go into those slots. Sure, there are SATA ports for plugging your SSD storage in and there are PCI Express slots - six of them. Now, however, that space doesn't go anywhere near as far as it did in 2019 when the Mac Pro launched. Space to add new graphics cards, space for a ton of HDDs, and space for more RAM memory slots than you knew what to do with. But the Mac Studio has that now, so the key differentiator? Space. That and the globs of performance it offered. Once upon a time that space was what sold the Mac Pro. ![]()
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