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I’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
by perardi 4y ago
I’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."