How long do we need to wait until Apple release the MacBook Pro with M2 ULTRA chip for professionals and everybody who wants to have it?
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Apple MacBook Pro 16-18-20-inch with M2 ULTRA
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Burnincoco
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I want a MacBook Pro Ultimate. I've been saying this for awhile.
Give us a 24" MacBook Pro with a slot loading drive. The slot loading drive ejects a 20" MacBook Pro. Which then can eject a 16" MacBook Pro out of it's slot loading drive. Which can then eject a 14" MacBook Pro out of it's slot loading drive. Which can then eject a 13" MacBook Air out of it's slot loading drive.
Ultimate performance at every screen size.
Give us a 24" MacBook Pro with a slot loading drive. The slot loading drive ejects a 20" MacBook Pro. Which then can eject a 16" MacBook Pro out of it's slot loading drive. Which can then eject a 14" MacBook Pro out of it's slot loading drive. Which can then eject a 13" MacBook Air out of it's slot loading drive.
Ultimate performance at every screen size.
Falhófnir
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Don't know about the ultra chip (that heatsink in the Mac Studio is pretty substantial) but isn't the M2 Max meant to come with extra cores? It seems like the M1 Max doesn't fully utilise the 16" cooling system, but a 12(?) CPU core/ 40 GPU core M2 Max might give us an idea of how much headroom there actually is.
We already know how much headroom there is.
It can easily handle the AMD Threadripper 3990X when you use only the CPU.
Falhófnir
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Somehow I think if the Ultra was a possibility it would already be a reality. The chip and MBP chassis would have been in development together, so they had the opportunity to do it if they could reasonably make it work in the 16", or to make a 17"+ machine if they couldn't make it work in the 16".
The known technical limit would be 240W USB PD charger.
Top-end Mac Studio M1 Ultra 5nm has a max power input of 215W without a display.
A M2 Ultra 3nm with at least a 20% performance per watt improvement would allow an Ultra in a MacBook Pro with 240W charger.
The question would be how big of a market is there for laptop that sells for nearly $7,000 and weighs nearly 2x 4.7 pounds (2.1 kg).
Mac Studio M1 Ultra's heat sink fan was made of a more thermally conductive material that weighs more so it can maintain its heat sink fan's RPM and physical form factor dimension.
As the M1 Ultra chip is 2x the die/surface area of a M1 Max chip then the heat it generates would be 2x as well. So that Macbook Pro M2 Ultra 3nm would run hotter than the top-end Macbook Pro 16 M1 Max.
Top-end Mac Studio M1 Ultra 5nm has a max power input of 215W without a display.
A M2 Ultra 3nm with at least a 20% performance per watt improvement would allow an Ultra in a MacBook Pro with 240W charger.
The question would be how big of a market is there for laptop that sells for nearly $7,000 and weighs nearly 2x 4.7 pounds (2.1 kg).
Mac Studio M1 Ultra's heat sink fan was made of a more thermally conductive material that weighs more so it can maintain its heat sink fan's RPM and physical form factor dimension.
As the M1 Ultra chip is 2x the die/surface area of a M1 Max chip then the heat it generates would be 2x as well. So that Macbook Pro M2 Ultra 3nm would run hotter than the top-end Macbook Pro 16 M1 Max.
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