Whereas we sit round and look ahead to Apple to lastly launch a brand new Mac Professional with Apple silicon (you promised, Apple), we will sit and reminisce about Mac Execs of yore. (I do know, nothing will cease us from reminiscing even after Apple releases a brand new Mac Professional, however humor me.) And the one Mac Professional that Mac customers like to hate is the 2013 Mac Professional, affectionately known as the “Trash Can” Mac due to its resemblance to the receptacle and the emotions of detestation customers had towards it.
However over time, these emotions have turned to appreciation, and possibly you’ve develop into so keen on it now that you simply want you should buy one. Effectively, we have now excellent news for you: You possibly can nonetheless purchase a 2013 Mac Professional direct from Apple with a full one-year guarantee. And better of all, you possibly can pay for it in British kilos.
Are you offered? Then head on over to the Apple Refurbished and Clearance Retailer on the Apple U.Okay. web site. There you’ll discover a 2013 Mac Professional for £5,149 (about $6,400 in U.S. {dollars}) with its blue Add to Bag button simply screaming at you to click on it.
What does all that cash get you? A 12-core, 2.7GHz Intel Xeon E5, 64GB of RAM, 1TB SSD, and twin AMD FirePro D700 graphics processors with 6GB of GDDR5 VRAM every. That is the maxed-out mannequin that was accessible when the 2013 Mac Professional was launched, and its unique worth (which I really wrote about practically 10 years in the past) was $9,599 within the U.S. So that you save practically $3,000!
One draw back, nonetheless: You possibly can’t set up macOS Ventura on it since Apple stopped supporting Mac Execs made previous to 2019. So no Stage Supervisor for you.
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Apple’s refurbished merchandise undergo a “rigorous refurbishment course of previous to sale,” so this Mac Professional will certainly be in like-new situation, even in any case this time. Apple even affords AppleCare for £299! Nonetheless, it appears like this U.Okay. retailer affords free supply and in-store pick-up solely within the U.Okay.–however for those who name Apple with a bundle of money I’m certain cargo to the U.S. could be organized.
The 2013 Mac Professional is likely to be Apple’s most notorious Mac. Apple’s interpretation of a mini tower created fairly a stir with its distinctive cylindrical design, the quantity of processing energy in its compactness, and its lack of expandability. Apple finally returned to an expandable tower design in 2019, however the 2013 mannequin left an indelible mark on the trade.
