Too busy drinking their own kool-aid to care what real pros want.
The new Mac Pro is basically meant for some YouTuber that "creates content" shooting in 8K Red RAW.
My gawd.. it’s so obvious. They CANT do it. Apple Silicon works because it’s everything on the same chip. There is an ultra short path for data between the GPU, memory and other components that speed up the same designs if they were separated from the main CPU like on traditional systems.
The chips are also designed for all their machines, mobile or desktop. So you’re working on lowest common denominator,I.e. the iPhone isn’t going to use PCI graphics cards so why engineer something that will slow down every other use case just to deal
With a few thousand Mac Pro use cases?
It would be madness.
I think they’ve made their choice in architecture to support the full apple line up rather than some niche use cases. People have been given years to work out what they need to do, stay on the apple Silicon train or go to PC. Apple will not be catering for these niche use cases anymore.
And that’s their philosophy, it’s as much about what you say no to than what you say yes to.
The thing they really go wrong maybe is to make M series SOC’s swappable. So you could upgrade when M3 came out with better graphics. To me, without that Mac Pro is just a waste of time for 99% of people.
Also, without drivers for these PCI cards how are people going to use them on a mac anyway? How many companies are making apple Silicon drivers for their PCI cards? It’s going to be an ultra niche market place.
Mac Pro as a long term, best mac you can buy for most people has been dead for a while.