macronin

This was from a speculation article about a month or so before WWDC 2013...



Ditch the front I/O & have a TouchID power button behind the Apple logo...

Processors: 7nm Zen 2 Ryzen Threadripper 3

• 3990WX 64C/128T, 3.5GHZ/4.2GHz, 250W
• 3970WX 48C/96T, 3.5GHZ/4.2GHz, 250W
• 3950X 32C/64T, 3.7GHz/4.4GHz, 180W
• 3920X 24C/48T, 3.7GHz/4.4GHz, 180W

Memory: Quad-channel, ECC DDR4, eight DIMM slots, maximum 512GB BTO, 64GB standard (4 @ 16GB DIMMs), user serviceable

Samsung A-die DIMMS, high-speed, low-latency, high-density, up to 64GB sticks

Storage: T2 (T3?) with dual Apple-proprietary SSDs in RAID, ~4GB/s read and write, 2 TB standard, up to 8 TB BTO

Graphics: PCIe 4.0, two triple-width slots (x16, x16), one double-width slot (x8)

• AMD Radeon VII, 7nm Vega 20, 60CU, 16GB HBM2
• AMD Radeon RX 3090X, 7nm Navi 20, 64CU, 8GB GDDR6 (available Q2 2020)
• AMD Radeon RX 3080X, 7nm Navi 10, 56CU, 8GB GDDR6
• AMD Radeon RX 3070X, 7nm Navi 10, 48CU, 8GB GDDR6

2.5-width slots give dual-width GPUs room to breathe
x8 dual-width slot for the 12G SDI 8K video I/O folks, or a wicked fast NVMe-based RAID card

Ports: four TB3 / USB-C, four USB-A, dual 10Gb Ethernet, one 3.5mm headphone jack

The above could be in the middle chassis, but if it could all be crammed into the far right chassis (without thermal throttling issues), that would be great...

Oh yeah, and if we could get that in Space Grey...? Thanks, Tim...!

steveau said:

fastasleep said:

mattinoz said:

fastasleep said:

steveau said:

"Modular" means that it will be rackable or stackable in some way. Like a couple of MacMinis with a SuperDrive, a multi-Terabyte drive or two and an Airport Extreme one on top of the other, but with the same form factor and a clever way of connecting them. Notwithstanding the Xserve, a rack would be very non-Apple, so I expect something much more elegant than that. Better too than the RackMac MacMini product. Also expect the CPU module to be water or oil cooled. Hope we don't have to wait much longer!

My read on Schiller’s use of modular was to mean a headless Mac coupled with a display. Specifically, because he mentioned it in the context of AIO systems like the iMac. Maybe also to include things like user accessible/removable storage or cards etc but I’m no way would I assume they ever meant to imply stackable or rackable LEGOesque components. 

Although with talk of AI accelorator a rackable machine (based on say OpenCompute modules) would allow Apple to dog food the a Bare bones MacPro and have full manufacturing control of some of the machines they deploy for iCloud services. The retail version would just wrap it in fancy case.

Talk of AI accelerator? What? They're not using Macs in their iCloud data centers.

Apple are selling lots of Mac Mini's to data centres, so why not a rackable/stackable solution more elegant than this (see pic)?

Apple did servers, then they didn't...

Doubt they will jump in again...

Right now, we just want a modern Apple personal desktop workstation that is not an all-in-one nor a tiny Mac mini hooked to a huge overpriced eGPU...

fastasleep said:

steveau said:

"Modular" means that it will be rackable or stackable in some way. Like a couple of MacMinis with a SuperDrive, a multi-Terabyte drive or two and an Airport Extreme one on top of the other, but with the same form factor and a clever way of connecting them. Notwithstanding the Xserve, a rack would be very non-Apple, so I expect something much more elegant than that. Better too than the RackMac MacMini product. Also expect the CPU module to be water or oil cooled. Hope we don't have to wait much longer!

My read on Schiller’s use of modular was to mean a headless Mac coupled with a display. Specifically, because he mentioned it in the context of AIO systems like the iMac. Maybe also to include things like user accessible/removable storage or cards etc but I’m no way would I assume they ever meant to imply stackable or rackable LEGOesque components. 

Yeah, I see the modular aspect of it (separate monitor definition aside) as applying to internal modularity...?

fastasleep said:

macronin said:

Wonder what the revision date is on this (render of a fake booklet) imagery...?

Oh look, they changed the top...!

Where'd this come from?

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/waiting-for-mac-pro-7-1.1975126/page-485#post-27362201

Totally changes the top of the earlier "Phoenix" concept, and the airflow looks to be total shitte...

Wonder what the revision date is on this (render of a fake booklet) imagery...?

Oh look, they changed the top...!