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In this discussion: people who know little about Apple Silicon architecture ("no discreet GPU, not buying"), who are not the target audience for this ("$77k for
by KennyBlanken 3y ago
In this discussion: people who know little about Apple Silicon architecture ("no discreet GPU, not buying"), who are not the target audience for this ("$77k for a comoputer!?!?!"), who do have no idea what video creatives need (see: discreet GPU), raging.
These systems (especially the Pro) are for people who spend all day working on 4k and up video.
Also, guys: do you really think that any of you are smarter than Apple? That Apple doesn't spend a lot of time talking to top creative professionals?
These systems aren't developed in a vacuum, especially at these price points.
- wmf 3y ago$3,000 just for slots certainly sends the message that Apple views their customers as completely captive though.
- sbierwagen 3y agoThe press release mentions a bunch of use cases for the slots, but does anyone actually sell Apple Silicon-compatible cards yet? It's a brand new processor architecture after all. I checked the store page and it doesn't show any. (The old page would let you configure a Pro with more GPUs or afterburner cards)
- wmf 3y agoPeople will need to get the new Mac Pro in their hands to develop and test drivers, although any card that works in a Thunderbolt enclosure should also work when plugged in directly.
- kalleboo 3y agoRosetta works for drivers as well (as long as they use the user-mode DriverKit interface rather than kernel extensions)