based on that heart yeah we're watching
it in the morning I know I just forget
everything okay guys we know no sound
we're not talking about anything
important no all right now that we've
like spoiled all of the mandalorian we
just didn't want to give the spoilers to
today's episode so we just yeah I
haven't Somali I mean fairy spoilers and
you are very spoiler sensitive the
salmon is here audio works yes sorry
about that everyone and hello now we're
here um so this Mac Pro came a lot
earlier than we were expecting
yeah so our delivery window wasn't until
like the week of Christmas yeah but it
is here now and it's the week of fixmas
yeah it's the week of fixmas so Sam and
I actually have I picked its annual
fixes party later today and so we are
trying to get out of here as quick as
possible so we can go set up to that
which is why we're in our Christmas
attire holiday girl but we didn't want
to make you guys wait for our teardown
well no we're going to make you wait
start you know we're gonna do that next
week but we thought since we have this
here we could do a quick you know
initial impressions video this should be
real short and sweet because we're
trying to get out of here yeah good good
content solid solid content but the
analysis will come later that'll be
Monday or Tuesday Tuesday
yeah that's it so as you can see we
actually didn't order a Mac Pro with
wheels so we thought it would be fun to
do a giveaway so we're gonna give away
fifty dollars to the iFixit store if you
can come up with a Photoshop solution of
what we should do instead I'm really
bummed I'm actually really bummed that
we didn't get wheels like so we have to
we have to figure out some kind of
solution we had a Twitter poll earlier
there if you want some ideas but just
come up with like some image that we can
hopefully include and the teardown would
be
but of a way that we can port this thing
around because it's like really happy
happy yeah one of our engineers that
actually put this in his car had to keep
it lifted above his yeah really funny
picture this morning I'm sorry Jeff for
making you do that um and I just
realized how big this Apple logo is I
don't think I've ever seen one that big
before it's a very large mirror and
you've got a very large grate - I can't
wait to grate some cheese on this it is
such a good time
I brought cheese and a grater because it
was just too good of an opportunity so
we will be testing out you put your
boats in now like what's gonna be a
better cheese grater cheese grater or
micro nobody better is also subjective
so yeah all right so we're gonna get
started and take this case off on if you
have any questions during the stream go
ahead and drop them to the channel if
you have anything that you want us to
investigate for the teardown put that in
the channel as well and we'll do our
best to kind of look at that when we're
done with our Christmas party I'm just
gonna start by opening it up I think I
mean you guys have kind of seen the
outsides of this thing for a while we
have grater on this side and then ports
and expansion slots on the other side
handle is here and allegedly this is
like the the power off switch I'm not
sure how that works I don't really feel
anything super magnetic but because this
thing's so large we have to be sitting
on the floor and you don't have our
normal Center going so it's probably
sounds a little bit different than
normal just pretend it's like Christmas
morning so I got how much RAM does it
have we got the base model so ours was 6
grand
not the $52,000 maxed out model yeah wow
that's just like you could drop that off
a truck for sure
yeah that's over here alright so what
are we looking at uh there's this really
cool halo on the top that's really
appealing to me everything is so pretty
everything's very well designed in here
obviously I don't know
they're like PC like build a PC people
have been like pretty good about making
things like like very tidy and cute
inside and color-coordinated and
everything is it like saying like that's
some that's some design in there
everything is in its little packet and
we have all kinds of action obviously
behind grapes a desk here gracious this
is Bram what I'm looking at in here got
tons and tons of slots but it looks like
we've got some some dims in there we can
see in that shadow and then again we
have here ports and expansion
lots of places for cards so I don't know
is this where the dollars comes in
probably probably elsewhere as well from
a more cards and stuff so this is a huge
huge difference from the last Mac Pro
that we saw which was pretty much not
upgradeable had like what four ports but
yeah very very limited very tiny if you
wanted to do anything it had to be
through like external connections it's
like a trash can this is really pretty
this is like a super space-age looking
device so it's pretty neat those ports
on top as well yes we only have two USB
a ports on the top we know that mkbhd in
his unboxing was complaining about that
but we do have a bevy of ports a lot
more than last time
is there anybody on the planet that is
gonna use the base model without any
expansion you never know I I mean if you
like you can buy the base model then
expand it yourself is probably like the
solution that people are looking for and
then you can like posh or whatever wait
for different expansion kits that will
come out later maybe yeah so that is
something that pros have been
complaining about they really wanted and
videocard support they didn't get it
so sad also the built-in storage is
proprietary so you are looking to buy
this you know keep that in mind and I
would like to know who is looking to
bite us so if you guys are looking to
buy this tell me why in the chat and
what configuration you will take because
there's like a billion of permutations
yeah it feels very pro for sure so I'm
not gonna buy it I'll just put myself on
that list as far as personal use but
it's really great we've got Phillips
here this is like like the first time
I've seen Phillips screws like on the
outside of a Mac device
the we didn't even need any tools
obviously yeah it's just playing right
which is cool
we've got thumb screws for the which
also are right out oh yeah numbers we
have numbered sections here for the
different sections like how staticky is
it to like rotate something carpet sorry
we're a little bit out of our element on
the flow actually no this is my element
cuz I actually really enjoy working from
the floor so this is nice
alright yeah so these are just like so
the fully maxed out model is like what
north of 50,000 and that comes out one
terabyte 1.5 terabytes of random that
what I read the preposterous amount I
don't even know how to conceptualize how
much RAM that is because yeah your your
electrical panel in your house has like
little labels like this and now your RAM
does too that's exactly the Apple is
going for when they designed this cute
just for Sam just for Sam alright I'm
like hopefully it's more like a jack
just felt really fallen we did have a
question of where the speaker is that's
definitely something that we're gonna
investigate in the teardown where the
built-in speakers are so you'll have to
tune back in on Monday so those just pop
right out this is not adjusting to you
guys at all probably but the like the
mechanical design of this is so so cool
so did it feel really durable so
obviously anytime you put something in
and out like this is this is a little
like this like flexible from Apple but
it's I mean it's just like a
cover basically to make sure that the
RAM is protected but everything else
like the the slides and the buttons and
the clips feel like really really solid
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em kicks okay
we're yeah so it's really weird that we
just get to use a Phillips screwdriver
to work on an Apple device and that's
great I mean PC towers are really kind
of like the gold standard for a pair
ability so it's really nice to see them
move to this design work
everything is so modular we're kind of
wondering what to show you in the
teardown because even Apple support page
is great they have a service manual
already up on how to upgrade things a
lot not allowed to replace they're on
SSD but you know one day in a perfect
world we'd love to see that for all
devices where you have a support page
and everything ready to go before a
device is sold so you know exactly what
you're getting into and what
configurations to buy so you can keep
the device with you for a long time no
blue included
a little rail here kind of protecting
the difference lost
is it possible to disassemble the steel
frame later but we can like look inside
of it it's kind of a single piece well
Sam investigates the nope this is
heavier than I expected
oh should you be grating cheese while
I'm oh would you guys like me to grate
some cheese so I guess I could do that
that's okay
oh so we brought a cheese grater for
comparison and that's a nice sharp
cheddar so I'll just go ahead I'll just
see this one or actually does it one
yeah we need a fair comparison here yeah
here we have some nice sharp cheddar and
I'll just keep grading and you keep
going all right I'm gonna make a mess in
the video studio and they're gonna be so
happy about it
I feel like really bad about clogging up
okay yeah that's deeper I'll talk about
that in second but it does work pretty
good I mean it's really filling it up
with cheese yeah that's it it just feels
it so this is not a good cheese grater
we can go ahead and put that clean down
to rest oh man it just spilled right in
here and that's pretty horrible
sorry charity on Team you'll have to
clean that later for the teardown we
only bought one unit yeah so that was
like really anticlimactic I really
really thought I would get something
better out of that all right so uh yeah
what are you um clearly should have read
the service documentation first I don't
remember if I know that the power supply
was in there the PCIe slots were in
there oh but the I can't quite get this
guy out right now and I don't want a
super damage anything I've got I like
somehow like get it out of the port slot
first so we'll get to the we'll get to
the teardown and let this just be
extremely brief we're gonna talk about
the fans a little bit and this case is a
so there are so hands will probably come
out we've got more Phillips screws in
here so yeah so I there was a really
good Popular Mechanics article where
they actually interviewed one of the
engineers who worked on the fan so of
course Apple designed a whole new fan
because their Apple and he was saying
that it was who's he saying he designed
it not just to be quieter but he was
saying that like if you're gonna have a
noise you want it to be pleasant
so he'd rather have a loud pleasant
noise and like apply it annoying noise
so that went into the fan designs we
have three fans here and then went out
the back to blow up the hot air there
the specs on this are just so beefy so
this cooling system had to be ultra
improved and then also the lattice
design here is supposed to allow for the
free flow of air it does not allow for
the free flow of cheese you can see it
got stuck in there yeah but people are
saying that it is a lot quieter and by
people I mean like the three reviewers
that I've seen that haven't so far but
it is supposedly a lot quieter maybe we
can test a little bit later but one of
the reasons that it is quieter is
there's no just filtration system so how
much of a problem do you think dust will
be for loop the Mac Pro I think it's I
guess is yet to be seen it's kind of
like lifted up off the floor a lot more
than the previous Mac Pro was at least
the 2013 one we're kind of back to the
g5 form-factor which should be nicer and
obviously this is super easy to open up
and clean so there you go like maybe
that's the solution is just maintainable
and not necessarily just proof
okay so I talked earlier about opening
the lid turns on the power so what we
can see oh here
the we've got like little pin contacts
up here that's where the power button is
that lines up with the power button on
the case and then I know we'll see if
we're camera can get down the depths of
this device but you can see the
corresponding spring contacts the bold
in there so it's not necessarily the
handle turning that turns the computer
off it's actually lifting it up and
separating that I believe which will
turn the device off so you can safely
work right which is great yeah so we
really just wanted to do a silly video
real quick just to give you guys a quick
inside thing we'll be doing a full
teardown Monday so look out for this
Monday or Tuesday and we will be
cleaning out the cheese recovered from
the holiday but that's kind of all we
got for you guys and so don't forget
that we are running a contest we will
give you $50 for assume you wanted a a
photoshopped solution to our poor like
wheel with problem for our MacBook or
Mac Pro and if it's really good I really
want to include it in the teardown
itself so like you know keep your keep
your Photoshop fingers ready and if you
don't win we do have a promo going for
the rest of cember if you use code fix
missed 10 at checkout you will get $10
off orders $50 or more so everyone wins
yeah and as always socialists anywhere
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and tell us what you want to know about
the teardown yeah all right and with
that I guess we'll just be eating some
cheese great yeah Mary thanks Manny
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