My Overdue Eulogy for the Mac Pro

The Mac Pro is now officially dead —but it's been dead to me for years. I ordered my first quad-core Mac Pro in early 2008, and later got an 8-core 2013 Mac Pro. 1 These two Macs helped me bootstrap the OpenCL spectrogram kernel that put Capo on the map. During the "dark period", while we all waited for the follow-up to the trashcan Mac 2 , I decided to go hard when I configured my iMac Pro: 18…