The Mac Pro is their lowest volume computer. You’re thinking of MacBook Pro, perhaps. The MacBook Pro is a laptop and the Mac Pro is a full tower desktop.

Nope.

https://9to5mac.com/2023/01/09/apples-most-popular-mac/

Oh, that report. No comment on the accuracy. I did misunderstand you to be talking about all Mac revenue and not just desktops. I work on a 2019 Mac Pro so am familiar with the price range.

Not sure where CIRP gets its numbers.

Because the Mac Pro outselling the Mac mini by 10x doesn't seem believable to me.

And especially in 2022 when the Intel Mac Pro was being outperformed by the Mac Studio.

There's a reason the Mac Mini went longer than the Pro without an update. Compared to the Studio, the Pro has dual 10Gb Ethernet, SATA and PCIe Gen 4, and a rack-mounted chassis option. For certain classes of enterprise workloads, that makes a difference. Think VFX, post production, sound stages and recording that can't use the Studio for lack of PCIe expansion slots for industry-related hardware (HDX/DSP).

Well, those same VFX people now can't use their GPUs on the new Mac Pro.

Thankfully VFX Reference Platform also accounts for Windows and Linux, https://vfxplatform.com/

Why would you need a separate GPU when you have integrated 60-core GPU with access to up to 198gb of memory? Like what you'd need a render farm? Apple Metal is already a target for all the important tools.

Because GPUs are more than just memory, and in regards to your memory comment, unified memory is not the same as having a dedicated.

And when the GPUs no longer can keep up, one doesn't need to throw away the whole computer.