The latest in the series of Apple’s high-end workstations and server machines is the Mac Pro (not to be confused with MacBook Pro)—easily the most powerful workstation computer that Apple (or any other company) has built to date in terms of speed and performance.

Its shiny black cylindrical form with curvaceous contours gives it an intriguing appearance. The usual appendages are so conspicuously absent atop the peripherals of Mac Pro that it almost appears like a sort of an alien gadgetry—a slick, roller-like implement that exudes power and charisma…hang on folks, what are we talking about? We haven’t even begun to scratch the surface of this wonder yet.

Well, dig inside and the marvels of fine engineering begin to unfurl; Mac Pro appears a completely reimagined design; a conventional box-shaped CPU remolded to a harmonious tubular workstation with a seamless amalgamation of every element that defines a pro computing machine viz. graphics, storage, expansion, processing power, and memory.

A hardcore graphic designer would love the workstation for it would never make them slog or compromise on what they could dream to achieve; even if that means editing a 4K video pixel-for-pixel without slowing down. The 6-core Xeon E5 3.5 GHz/16GB monster with Dual-AMD FirePro GPUs packs so much muscle that it can run eight picture-in-picture streams of 4K video at once in Final Cut Pro X!

For storage, it relies on the ultrafast PCle-based flash memory, moving files up to 2.4 times faster than the fastest SATA-based solid stage drives. Well that can add up to a whopping 1 TB capacity!

Nonetheless, of all this fine hardware assortment, what steals the thunder is its cooling system—an iconoclast’s dream, it relies on a single fan and a unified thermal core to keep the blazing beast ‘cool’. Unlike the conventional heat sinks and fans layout, Mac Pro has everything built around a single extruded aluminum sheet such that it maximizes airflow by conducting and distributing heat uniformly across the core. A single, large fan sucks the air upwards through a bottom draft, which absorbs the heat while passing the vertical core and dissipates it out of the top.

The wonder machine is worth every penny it costs—even if that goes northwards of 3 lakh—for, it is built to last, and with its unmatched panache and performance, the hardcore computing professionals will never find themselves at a loss!