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As someone who worked on the M2 Mac Pro and has a real soft spot for it, I get it. It’s horrendously expensive and doesn’t offer much benefit over a Mac Studio

As someone who worked on the M2 Mac Pro and has a real soft spot for it, I get it. It’s horrendously expensive and doesn’t offer much benefit over a Mac Studio and a thunderbolt pci chassis. My personal dream is that vms would support pci pass through and so you can just spin up a Linux vm and let it drive the gpus. But at that point, why are you buying a Mac? Opinions are my own obvs.

markn951 6mo ago
> Opinions are my own obvs. Whose else would they be?
- mandeepj 6mo ago
  Maybe he was trying to say he isn’t a spokesman for anyone else :-)
- TheDong 6mo ago
  > as someone who worked on the m2 mac pro They're trying to make it very clear they're not speaking on behalf of Apple Inc, despite having worked (or working) there. Big companies like to give employees some minimal "media training", which mostly amounts to "do not speak for the company, do not say anything that might even slightly sound like you're speaking for the company".
- dotancohen 6mo ago
  > > Opinions are my own obvs. > Whose else would they be? On the internet? Often the opinions of others they see getting upvotes.
- OJFord 6mo ago
  An employer's, especially as they stated having worked (and perhaps still) at Apple in the same comment.
  - code_duck 6mo ago
    Oh, I interpreted it as “did work using a Mac Pro” vs helped develop the Mac Pro itself.
- 9wzYQbTYsAIc 6mo ago
  >> Opinions are my own obvs. > Whose else would they be? takes a look at the user profile Oh, they are a journalist/writer for a big name outfit
zeusk 6mo ago
> My personal dream is that vms would support pci pass through and so you can just spin up a Linux vm and let it drive the gpus. SR-IOV is just that? and is well supported by both Windows and Linux.
- AbanoubRodolf 6mo ago
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- matthewfcarlson 6mo ago
  Yes- that's what I referring to. Basically the virtualization framework supporting handing a specific PCIe device off to a VM. Link management is still handled by macOS but the actual PCIe packets are handled by the VM (which could be windows or linux, which would have a GPU driver)
spacedcowboy 6mo ago
Under a comment regarding the O2/Octane (both of which I own :) era, I first read “vms” as VMS, not multiple instances of a VM…
asimovDev 6mo ago
do / did you have to always work in the office or do you get to work from home by taking a test rig with you ? always been curious about this
- matthewfcarlson 6mo ago
  Hardware generally isn't allowed outside of lockdowns. There are things you can do with dev fused hardware to remotely control it which make life easier. But most devs just come into the office since being there in person is nicer.
  - asimovDev 6mo ago
    yeah that makes sense. thanks for replying!

markn951 6mo ago

> Opinions are my own obvs. Whose else would they be?

mandeepj 6mo ago
Maybe he was trying to say he isn’t a spokesman for anyone else :-)
TheDong 6mo ago
> as someone who worked on the m2 mac pro They're trying to make it very clear they're not speaking on behalf of Apple Inc, despite having worked (or working) there. Big companies like to give employees some minimal "media training", which mostly amounts to "do not speak for the company, do not say anything that might even slightly sound like you're speaking for the company".
dotancohen 6mo ago
> > Opinions are my own obvs. > Whose else would they be? On the internet? Often the opinions of others they see getting upvotes.
OJFord 6mo ago
An employer's, especially as they stated having worked (and perhaps still) at Apple in the same comment.
- code_duck 6mo ago
  Oh, I interpreted it as “did work using a Mac Pro” vs helped develop the Mac Pro itself.
9wzYQbTYsAIc 6mo ago
>> Opinions are my own obvs. > Whose else would they be? takes a look at the user profile Oh, they are a journalist/writer for a big name outfit

zeusk 6mo ago

> My personal dream is that vms would support pci pass through and so you can just spin up a Linux vm and let it drive the gpus. SR-IOV is just that? and is well supported by both Windows and Linux.

AbanoubRodolf 6mo ago
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matthewfcarlson 6mo ago
Yes- that's what I referring to. Basically the virtualization framework supporting handing a specific PCIe device off to a VM. Link management is still handled by macOS but the actual PCIe packets are handled by the VM (which could be windows or linux, which would have a GPU driver)

spacedcowboy 6mo ago

Under a comment regarding the O2/Octane (both of which I own :) era, I first read “vms” as VMS, not multiple instances of a VM…

asimovDev 6mo ago

do / did you have to always work in the office or do you get to work from home by taking a test rig with you ? always been curious about this

matthewfcarlson 6mo ago
Hardware generally isn't allowed outside of lockdowns. There are things you can do with dev fused hardware to remotely control it which make life easier. But most devs just come into the office since being there in person is nicer.
- asimovDev 6mo ago
  yeah that makes sense. thanks for replying!