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It’s worth remembering that the trash can Mac Pro was an engineering bet on a new ecosystem, specifically external GPUs, which were made possible by the incredi
by snowwrestler 4y ago
It’s worth remembering that the trash can Mac Pro was an engineering bet on a new ecosystem, specifically external GPUs, which were made possible by the incredibly high speed of the Lightning port/cable.
That ecosystem of accessories did not develop as Apple hoped it would, which essentially stranded the Mac Pro design and made it look (in retrospect) like a stupid design. And Apple kept hoping the ecosystem would develop, so they waited too long to replace it.
Apple has done great with many similar bets (USB, FireWire, removing optical disk drives). This one just didn’t work out.
- whywhywhywhy 4y agoWasn’t just external. Remember it shipped with two internal AMD GPUs. The real issue was AND GPUs were close to useless for any GP-GPU work at the time because of CUDAs dominance and Apples lack of commitment to OpenCL at the time.