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It is possible it is for a Mac Pro, but that would be just for bragging rights to have a halo processor that beats everything AMD and Intel have in terms of pow
by etempleton 4y ago
It is possible it is for a Mac Pro, but that would be just for bragging rights to have a halo processor that beats everything AMD and Intel have in terms of power and single threaded and multithreaded workloads. It all depends on how good the yields are on 3nm.
As an aside, I am not sure who a Mac Pro computer would be for at this stage. I wonder if they would design it to be able to slide into a rack mount. How many Mac workloads need a computer more powerful than a Mac Studio at this point? It was once you needed a pro machine to properly use photoshop or illustrator and now a MacBook Air is fine most of the time and a Mac Studio is perfectly capable of doing even the most demanding video editing. The only thing that comes to mind would be for render workloads for animation houses and for video game developers. Will the chassis design be tailored for that? Will it be a good value for for those types of customers who are not going to care what it looks like because it is going to be in a rack or in a corner?
- yreg 4y agoIt's for Mr. John Siracusa. Plus people who want a modular computer, but I don't know how modular would an M* Mac Pro be.
- perardi 4y agoI’m entirely unclear if an ARM-based Mac Pro would look anything like the old Mac Pro. Well. Actually. If it would look anything like the late lamented cheese grater Mac Pro. I worry it would be a lot more like the trashcan Mac Pro. Because for a long time, the Mac Pro has meant expandability. Lots of RAM slots. PCIe slots. Drive bays. Big-ass GPUs. Something adaptable to pro work flows, namely audio and video capture and production. Is anything like that possible with the Apple Silicon system? I think it’s extremely unlikely they’d support GPUs. And I really don’t think they will support old-fashioned RAM—they seem to be all-in on directly-on-die memory. And PCIe cards? Shrug? No idea, because we’ve not seen anything like that yet.
- etempleton 4y agoIs it just a case and logic board and then you are plugging SOC modules onto? Would Apple ever sell such a thing? Better question, would Apple ever sell the individual modules? On one hand I don't think this will ever make them money, on the other, it might just be a halo product that is worth the cost in good press. A shiny expensive thing that Apple can say, "look, see, we have the fastest personal computer you can buy."
- vbezhenar 4y agoOne missing piece for new Mac Pro is RAM. Current Mac Pro can be equipped with 1.5 TB. Mac Studio limit is 128 GB.