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Mac Studio may never get updated, because new Mac Pro is coming
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New Mac Pro may not support PCI-E GPUs
If Apple does release Mac Pro without expandable memory (as seems likely), look for it to have a second tier of lower performance memory, analogous to what Intel did with Optane. There is no point putting an enormous number of cores in a machine if you can't scale the memory proportionally (and in a more cost efficient manner than just buying more computers!) But you also don't need all of your system memory to be as high bandwidth as the 100 GB/s in the M2.
The claim of "up to 76 cores" is interesting. Currently the macos kernel has a hard limit to 64 cores. Apple could obviously raise that, but I doubt they'd do that outside a major release of macos. But macos 14 could certainly have a higher core thread limit. -
Bono takes the blame for the 2014 iTunes U2 album disaster
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'Resident Evil Village' for Mac arrives on October 28
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Apple chose a bad year to launch expensive iPads that aren't compelling