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Is there any reason the Mac Pro couldn't or shouldn't combine an SoC with upgradable components? So you get a certain baseline level of specs, but also have th
by buu700 6y ago
Is there any reason the Mac Pro couldn't or shouldn't combine an SoC with upgradable components?
So you get a certain baseline level of specs, but also have the opportunity to tack on a beefier GPU (which may or may not use UMA), additional slower memory, additional slower storage, maybe even additional CPUs, etc.
- chipotle_coyote 6y ago> Is there any reason the Mac Pro couldn't or shouldn't combine an SoC with upgradable components? I don't think so, with the asterisk that I don't know enough to say whether mixing higher-speed and lower-speed RAM is really feasible in that scenario. (IIRC, if you do that in computers now, all the RAM will operate at the lowest speed.)
- jsjohnst 6y ago> if you do that in computers now, all the RAM will operate at the lowest speed That’s correct, but irrelevant in this context. In that scenario, the memory is all on the same memory controller, and the memory controller used wants to run a single speed, so it has to be the highest universally supported speed. Apple could have multiple tiers of memory with different characteristics, but just because you can, doesn’t mean you should. I don’t have access to such a test bed, so I can’t speak to what the experience would be like.