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  • Mac Pro in danger after fumbled Apple Silicon launch

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    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.  
    williamlondonAlex1Ndarkvaderwatto_cobra

  • iPhone 15 Pro rumored to get Thunderbolt connectivity

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    Why limit the standard phones to USB 2 speeds? At least go to USB 3. That seems punitive and unnecessary. If Thunderbolt is more expensive then ok, but don’t handicap the standard phone. 
    williamlondonMplsPwatto_cobra

  • The birth, life, death, and possible resurrection of the Thunderbolt eGPU in macOS

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    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.
    crowleydarkvaderwatto_cobrakeithw