The Mac Pro is a very specialized machine. Windows desktop users aren't generally buying Xeon processors. Almost no one wants a Mac Pro. It's one of the reason

The Mac Pro is a very specialized machine. Windows desktop users aren't generally buying Xeon processors. Almost no one wants a Mac Pro. It's one of the reasons why it's often left behind by Apple. In this case, Apple still hasn't replaced the Intel CPU with an Apple Silicon one despite being more than two years into the Apple Silicon transition. > At this point there isn't really any other hardware available, that'd give me a justifiable boost in productivity I think the key word in there is "me". You're probably like 99.9% of people out there and there's nothing worthwhile in available hardware, but there are always people that have specialized needs. I mean, you didn't even upgrade your hardware to something with "the best" graphics. You could have gotten an RTX 4090! Why didn't you? Well, it's probably not worth it. Why did you get a Ryzen 9 7950X with 16 cores instead of an EPYC 9654 with 96 cores? Well, probably because you're barely scratching the surface of those 16 Zen 4 cores. I mean, there are so many upgrades you could put into your system. Why didn't you buy 1.5TB of RAM? You probably even bought a motherboard that can't support that much RAM! ;-) Yea, almost no one wants one of these $52,000 machines. Almost no one wants a Mac Pro. Most people don't want dual Radeon Pro Duo graphics cards - 4 GPUs! Most people don't even buy one discrete GPU today. Most people don't want a machine with a 1,400 watt power supply that can deliver 1,280 watts continuously. I'd love to know what Apple's sales numbers are on the Mac Pro at all. It starts at $6,000 and feels like other things are a better value at that price. However, maybe you're doing serious video editing on a professional level and time is money - and with the Mac Pro you can buy all sorts of things. Though even there, it looks like the Mac Studio's M1 Ultra is doing better than the Mac Pro - even equipped with Apple Afterburner, a $2,000 card specifically meant to speed up handling ProRes video. Again, I'd love to know Apple's sales numbers on the Mac Pro, but they were probably decent for a very tiny niche for a while when the Apple Afterburner would be a nice addition to speed up video editing (before Apple Silicon). The Afterburner card could nearly half the amount of time needed to work with ProRes video. But as I said, it's a very tiny niche - a niche we're not in.