samuraiartguy

As an end-user and Creative Pro, I have become somwwhat thick skinned over Apple’s treatment of my Professional class - i.e. workin’ class designers. I am using two ancient but still wide shouldered classic cheegraters, one pretty aggressively upgraded. But the time to replace them IS coming, mostly due to OS and software incompatibilities, so I’ve been paying attention to Apples upper tier offerings. Not working for Pixar, ILM, Lucasfilm or NASA - the current incarnation of the Mac Pro is RIGHT out. And of course the beauty of the cMP is that you can do a LOT of upgrading and expansion, and do it yourself. This was was a huge plus of the iconic design. But Apple has abandoned that entire paradigm with SoC, right down to SSDs soldered to motherboards, or bespoke SSD modules. I am, like everyone else, impressed by the advances in performance and efficiency represented by the M series chips. But less impressed by the “sealed black box” philosophy that forces users to pre-buy against future need. When the time comes, I expect the Mac Studio (or its successor) will be the maximum a workin’ class Creative Pro can afford. The demise of the Mac pro, no matter how speculative, whoild not much affect my professional class. 

I have my doubts, when an Apple Executive has clearly taken some pains to explicitly not mention the Mac Pro – I am inclined to take him at his word. Same with the wild-eyed projections about “ComputeModule.” There is dead zero evidence other than tech writers breathless wish fulfillment that this undefined technology has anything to do with a new Mac Pro - fer blip’s sake, they run iOS, not Mac OS.