Mac Pro vs HP Z840

This is obviously irrelevant if you prefer apple OS to Windows or Linux or want to use Final Cut X or some other Mac only SW, but I was recently looking at acquiring one of these and really, there's no comparison.They're roughly the same price, around the £6k mark. Z840 wins for me hands down, plus it will be a hell of lot more versatile without the need for peripheral drives, converters etc as well as being a lot easier to up grade.

So, if you're looking for something to handle your hi-res footage, render your maya scenes, colour grading etc, and have about 6 grand to spare you could do a lot worse than a z840.

Worth noting that apple are expected to refresh the Mac Pro pretty soon and it will probably come a little closer to the HP.

Mac Pro 2013

2.7GHz 12-core with 30MB of L3 cache

32GB (4 x 8GB) of 1866MHz DDR3 ECC

1TB PCIe-based flash storage

Dual AMD FirePro D700 GPUs with 6GB of GDDR5 VRAM

HP Z840

 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2620v3 2.4 1866 (12 cores)

2 x NVIDIA Quadro K620 2GB (4gb)

1 x 480gb ssd

1 x 1tb SATA ssd

RAM: 128gb DDR4 (8x16gb)!!!!