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A comparison between an ultra high end macbook pro (which will never replace a gaming laptop) and an ultra high end gaming laptop (which will never replace a mac, or really be used for anything other than gaming).  Such foolishness.  But that's EXACTLY the comparison Apple went for when they first introduced the Apple silicon macbook pro.  So here we are.

So either Apple is going to abandon the $2k price point for the desktop market (unlikely) or the next Mac Pro is going to fill in the $2k price point  (laughably unlikely).
This is a bad take.  Look for the Mac Pro to be extremely differentiated and extremely pricey.

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.

Disaster for whom, exactly?

How convenient that it can't be benchmarked against any Mac that supports an external or third-party GPU.