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Mac Pro in danger after fumbled Apple Silicon launch
The current Apple Silicon Mac Pro is the most phoned in product they’ve ever made. A faction in Apple knows it too. I suspect there’s a group in Apple that was heavily involved in making the 2019 Mac Pro good, and there’s another faction that made the Mac Studio good (who previously failed with the Trash Can Mac Pro), that’s the group that wants to make the whole widget and not let anyone tinker around inside at all. That group probably pushed for soldered ram before Apple silicon made it necessary, soldered SSD’s and all that. And there’s legitimacy to both points of view, soldered is reliable. However I’m not buying a Mac Pro from the soldered RAM faction, and yet that’s what they made.The 2019 Mac Pro also became pointless since there’s no GPU upgrade possibility because Apple was involved in making GPU’s work on their platform and that development will now stop.Upgradability means good value for the customer. For Apple that means lower profit and higher support costs. It makes sense they don’t want to sell that many Mac Pros if they’re low volume and support costs are higher, and that’s probably factored into the price. But that also sucks, and I don’t want it.I was ready to buy the new Mac Pro until it came out and was underwhelming. Now that budget is being put to other things.I hope the next version is actually impressive. That they come out with upgrade cards as was rumored. I hope they put the equivalent of an iPhone on a pci card and have that act as a 1st party replacement for egpus and GPU’s. And there’s enough PCI lanes and all that. I would wager the strikes in Hollywood are also hurting their sales. I want the Mac Pro to live and be amazing. So try again. -
The birth, life, death, and possible resurrection of the Thunderbolt eGPU in macOS
I really hope Apple supports PCI GPU’s and EGPU’s again. I’ve seen firsthand the benefits of EGPUs in Resolve and while Thunderbolt is a bottleneck it’s still a good option to have, it’s beneficial. Clearly the packaging of everything together on Apple Silicon is also beneficial, but the chart shows it all - the 6900XT is faster. Stuff will always come out that’s faster. I’m not going to buy a new computer every year or two to keep up on GPUs, even if price were not a factor it’s just a pain to migrate between computers. I hope they bring the discrete GPU’s back. -
iPhone 15 Pro rumored to get Thunderbolt connectivity
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Mac Studio may never get updated, because new Mac Pro is coming
thadec said:dennyc69 said:I don’t buy it, Hollywood types use Mac Pro, the Mac Studio fills the gap for lower prices groups of people who still want pro power. This a click bait article? Don’t make stuff up
A lot of Hollywood is freelancers, so a lot of editors on Adobe Premiere or Avid use Windows or Mac, a lot of people are switching to Resolve which pairs well with a Mac but also does runs on Windows and has a Linux version. VFX artists are the same story. Sound people same story. What makes Macs appealing to Hollywood types is reliability, ease of use, and ProRes compatibility. There's also a consistency to them. Power / capability also matters a lot, I wasn't able to really do my job on a laptop before, but now I can thanks to M1 Max. So Hollywood types not using Macs is simply not true, I use one every day and there's a lot of people like me. And they also bought the 2017 iMac Pro in droves, so it's nothing new.
Everyone in Hollywood who knows about computers is aware of and talking about Apple's chips and what they're up to, and a lot of us are buying them.
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Mac Studio may never get updated, because new Mac Pro is coming
Seems like development of the Mac Pro has seen some issues. I would bet any delay in the M2 Studio has more to do with duration on the market of the first iteration and not wanting to outshine the new Mac Pro on release than anything else. I don’t have any inside info but I’ll bet the Studio sticks around.Some of it could also be market research like “let’s see what sells then do more of that.” -
Apple insists 8GB unified memory equals 16GB regular RAM
I can see the argument and it has merit, but I don’t know Apple Silicon has been around long enough for me to definitively agree. I have a M1Max MacBook Pro with 64GB RAM. Doing video projects with large RAW video files it rarely uses 32GB, which is definitely less than before, but that’s just one niche area of video work, there’s others. The only time it maxed it out was when the software had an error and ate up all the RAM. Also Apple’s RAM is being used to replace VRAM so it’s doing double duty and it’s doing it well.I’ve never bought a computer without upgradable RAM prior to this, and I still don’t like it, but at least it provides benefit now, and I maxed out the RAM available to me. I never know how long I’ll need to hang onto a computer and more RAM means that’s less likely to be the bottleneck down the road, extending its useful life. That said it logically follows you could buy a lower spec machine and have it be useful for longer and be more capable than before for seemingly a lot of things, so it’s not as bad of a decision as it was before Apple Silicon. I wouldn’t do that but probably a lot of people will.I don’t view the 64GB RAM I got as excessive or wasteful, it probably comes up rarely that it’s accessed, but that’s still insurance for the future. -
Jony Ive wanted to combine MacBook Pro and MacBook Air lines
omasou said:When Job's returned he greatly simplified the product lineup mess Sculley had created.
I would 100% like to see the MBP take on the MB form factor in terms of weight (today's battery is too large) and the MB take on the MBP's additional TB ports and drop the extraneous MBP ports, MagSafe, HDMI and most of all the memory card slot.
It use to be so easy to plug TB/USB C cables into my MBP but now I have to look at what I'm doing b/c I keep trying to plug into one of the other ports that I'll NEVER use.To me moving away from a combined MacBook Pro and Air is the best thing that could’ve happened. They’re two different use cases and meeting in the middle abandons a lot of opportunity on both ends. I could see adding more ports to the MacBook Air and just making it a traditional MacBook but since it’s a big seller as the Air I’m sure Apple doesn’t want to screw that up. Adding a third line of just standard MacBook makes sense in some ways but it does complicate things as well. I’m sure they’re constantly exploring their options on this. -
Apple building massive TV & movie production facility in Culver City