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That's what I was hoping Apple was going to do with a refreshed Mac Pro. I had envisoned a smaller tower design that with PCI slots and Apple developing and se
by Teever 7mo ago
That's what I was hoping Apple was going to do with a refreshed Mac Pro.
I had envisoned a smaller tower design that with PCI slots and Apple developing and selling daughter cards that were basically just a redesigned macbook pro PCB but with a PCI-E edge connector and power connector.
The way I see it a user could start with a reasonably powerful base machine and then upgrade it over time and mix and match different daughter cards. A ten year old desktop is fine as a day to day driver, it just needs some fancy NPU to do fancy AI stuff.
This kind of architecture seems to make sense to me in an age where computers have such a longer usable lifespan and where so many features are integrated into the motherboard.
- raw_anon_1111 7mo agoYou can do basically that by connecting over Thunderbolt 5 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46248644 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46248644
- Grosvenor 7mo agoApple already experimented with this with the prototype Jonathan computer. It's very late 80's in its aesthetic, and I love it. https://512pixels.net/2024/03/apple-jonathan-modular-concept/ https://512pixels.net/2024/03/apple-jonathan-modular-concept...
- bombcar 7mo agoThis is the kind of glorious thing that will only appear when Moore's law is dead and buried.