I hear you! It’s more than this for me. Every Apple desktop product is fully soldered, no way to upgrade even ram, ssd. And those horrendous prices!I've been a Mac Pro user since 2010, and while I love my 2019 model, I can't help but feel abandoned by Apple's poor decisions—especially for a so-called professional workstation.
What really pushed me over the edge was the lack of GPU support for the recent and current Mac Pro lineup. Not only is that a stupid decision, but it's outright insulting. And let's not even get started on Sequoia and the lackluster support for a $5,000 W6800X Duo MPX.
Once I'm done with my 2019 Mac Pro, I'm leaving this platform for good. It's no longer worth the money, effort, or time. Apple had absolutely nothing to lose by supporting at least the AMD 7000 series, but they chose not to—so I’m choosing not to give them my money anymore. **** Them.
I sold my macintel macbook pro recently, now i'm selling MP.
The warning shot for me was recent message from blender community that they are stopping future updates for macintel because of old and buggy macOS drivers for amd.
I had opportunity on the rtx 5090 launch and bought a small, custom watercooled pc with ryzen 7950x3d and rtx 4090 in very small formd t1 case with the bag.
I'm very pleased with it, it's not as silent or power efficient but who cares. It is still great, have the same/similar single core cpu performance and better multicore than apple silicon and this gpu is so powerful!
I loaded some small apps for win10 to have the functions I liked on Macos, for example drivers and software for the Apple touchpad for mac gestures like 3 finger drag.
And all that for 1/3 of a macstudio price.
Oh did I mention I can upgrade all the parts?
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