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> M1 mac pros were always going to come. When the "new" Mac Pro was announced, the shift to ARM processors for MacOS was at most rumored and it also wasn't obv
by incrudible 5y ago
> M1 mac pros were always going to come.
When the "new" Mac Pro was announced, the shift to ARM processors for MacOS was at most rumored and it also wasn't obvious that such a CPU would perform well.
If people knew this was "going to come", they would likely not have invested a significant amount of cash into a platform that was already on its way out.
> One constant of computer industry, there will always be the next chip, the next computer, and by then, the fancy M1 Mac Pro will become obsolete.
Unlike the incremental improvements you get with each new Intel CPU generation, this is quite a disruption. The PPC Macs soon were obsolete after the Intel Macs came about. All the efforts went into the new platform.
> Its day will come when everyone says "oh that M1? that was a slow POS that is now ewaste"
Things don't move that fast anymore. Take a 10-year-old Intel CPU, it's still quite capable. That certainly wasn't the case 10 years ago, or 20 years ago.