MacPro

By 'older,' I assume this means only the Apple Silicon ARM macOS version.  If not, I had no idea Intel macOS versions could be run in a VM on an M chip.

I initially bought an M1 Mac mini to test out Apple Silicon. I later purchased the Studio M1 Max. Then I bought the M2 Mac Studio Ultra soon after, which has been my main Mac ever since. I now use the M1 Mac mini as a dedicated Logic Pro box in my music studio. The M1 Max is all set up as a secondary system but seldom used. I have to say; unless it is for Generative AI, FCPro, Topaz, Photoshop, etc., where the Ultra screams, all three are just as fast for just about anything else.  

For those that bitch about Apple SoC RAM costs, know that RAM on high-end PCs is an absolute nightmare.  I've been trying to go to 64 GB 7200 MT/s from 32 GB 4800 MT/s of high-speed DDR5 on a Corsair Vengeance i9 RTX 3080 Ti to try to come close to my M2 Mac Studio Ultra's performance.  Support has been ongoing with Corsair and MSI, trying to help for two weeks.  The cost was close to $400, so not too bad; however, Windows can't correctly handle four slots of high-speed RAM, unlike the good old Intel Mac Pros, and limits the speed dramatically due to crappy memory paging and the Intel i9's IMC.  I will be trying 2 x 32 GB sticks of RAM and tweaking the BIOS for days, no doubt, and no one at the support desks can definitively tell me what the BIOS should be; the XMP defaults to huge underclocking, so it all has to be manual. To non-PC users, this is all gibberish I know.  - My point is....  appreciate Apple people!

I was hoping for more AI generative tools, as Adobe Premiere recently added.  Apple needs to catch up in that area.  The ability to extend a clip with undetectable AI generation, even for a few seconds through a transition, would be unbelievably helpful, and there are so many other genuinely useful things AI can do.  And no, it isn't cheating.  If one of your camera operators stops a second or two too soon, it can be a royal pain to the edit suite.  After two years of ESPN production, I know firsthand!

I don't agree with his logic. As Darbus69 mentioned, I'd certainly use one, as well as the Apple Watch, for nighttime especially.

It makes one wonder what the Mac Studio M4 Ultra will be like!