[hbn]

My buddy runs an independent video production company and bought a specced out Mac Pro for $12,000 in 2019. Probably still quite capable and battery life doesn't matter on that.

But I also understand it being deprecated and for Apple it's only gonna simplify platform improvements going forward to drop a second supported architecture. And at any point in computing history, 6 years was a decent lifespan for a machine.

[Schiendelman]

I would also hazard a guess that the same workflow will be faster on a $4000 machine now. Encode/decode acceleration on Apple Silicon has been great.