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I think that was deliberate. I am kinda amused at how they keep on narrowing the scope of what the mac pro is intended to be used for lol.

• gumby 3y ago
  They probably have very good data on how their machines are used, and are optimizing for the fat part of the market. This may not be a great machine for training models, which is what I happen care about (I couldn't care less about video). I wonder how big the model generation market actually is though.
  • rodgerd 3y ago
    I do wonder in these conversations how many people are actual users of these things - I'm not, I got a Studio last year to manage my photography addition better, and the Pro is pointless for that - but you'd assume that Apple have talked to major Pro users, and they've said things like "oh, no for training a model I just spin up terabyte instances on AWS, why would I do that on a workstation?", or whatever.
    • gumby 3y ago
      I assume the audience is the Disneys/Pixars of the world, and the people making ads, etc in 8K. They presumably need that I/O. For them the absurdly expensive monitor is a rounding error, and the extra local disk is worth it over running over a SAN. Perhaps also some computationally adjacent applications like CFD or weather prediction. I struggle to think of anyone else with such an application. There are applications that could benefit from the features but it wouldn’t be cost effective (e.g. something more systolic where it’s better to rent cloud service, even if it were nominally slower, because once you’re done you don’t have the hardware lying around).