Inside the Apple Mac Pro 2023: M2 Ultra Visits the Biggest Apple

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Apple's WWDC 2023 keynote kicked off the company's week-long developers conference with several major product announcements, including news of the first Apple-Silicon-powered Mac Pro desktop.

Built around the new M2 Ultra chip and starting at $6,999, this should prove to be an absolute powerhouse of a machine, putting past Mac Pro desktop models to shame and delivering the first Apple Silicon Mac that can actually be customized and upgraded after purchase. Gone are the separate, installable AMD Radeon Pro graphics modules, with the graphics capabilities now integrated into the M2 chip, and the Intel Xeon CPUs have been replaced by the Apple M2 Ultra worked straight into the mainboard. Plus, this Mac Pro's top-end configuration ($11,799) is actually far cheaper than the highest-end configuration of the 2019 Mac Pro was back then.

Here are my first impressions of Apple's first Mac Pro using one of its own processors, along with all the glamor and detail shots I could grab of the machine during my brief session with it at Apple Park.

First, an overall look at the chassis...

Same cheese-grater, heavy-aluminum sex appeal as before, and look at those feet...

The Mac Pro has always been built for power. This entire system is now built around Apple's latest mega chip, the M2 Ultra. Consisting of dual M2 Max processors on a single die, facilitated by a speedy interconnect between the two, it's the beefiest processor Apple has made yet.

With 134 billion transistors, it's a modern wonder of a 24-core CPU that can be configured with a 60- or- 76-core GPU. That's more than enough horsepower for most professionals, able to handle up to 22 simultaneous streams of uncompressed 8K video or multitasking between apps that would normally