It's going to be the year of neither.This is the year of the AR / VR headset, lol.According to Gurman, Mac Pro could still come by December?
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Apple Silicon Mac Pro Reportedly Not Coming at WWDC, Mac Studio Refresh Likely Delayed Until M3
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I am sure “if” nothing is launched during the next event concerning Mac Pro, Apple will say something along the lines of “it’s coming” but later this year or something along that premise.
I could see rather Apple put a M2 in Mac Studio and a M3 (or whatever) in Mac Pro. That may not eat Mac Pro sales and give them longer to release Mac Pro.
What if they found out that it is currently not possible to make Apple Silicon modular?
I wouldn't be surprised if that is what is actually happening.
At this point, professionals should just move to Windows or Linux rather than wait for a product that may or may not materialize.
It's not clear that the whole MacPro concept really makes much sense at this point. We might all be better off if they just concentrated on the Mac Studio.
I need a computer with more than the 128gb of ram that the Mac Studio provides. I'm stuck buying a 2019 Mac Pro with a chip being phased out instead of utilizing an Apple Silicon chip which has tremendous speed and memory improvements. It makes sense, if they are still making 'pro' level computers with higher available ram amounts. Otherwise they should just bow out.
Mac Studio Pro. They could do that, but it would be far to sensible for them to tolerate.
The 68k to PPC transition took 31 months (i.e. the last 68k machine was discontinued 31 months after the first PPC was released). We're at 29 months for the Intel to Arm transition, and if the Mac Pro doesn't get updated at WWDC then it's going to exceed that.
In other words, I agree with you
Work, make money, create, whatever, all personal computers do the same things.
Or… that the rumor mill overpromises.
Apple has never revealed their actual plans for the products and features.
This is most likely a highly specialized small market that requires much r&d for limited potential. I think their current offerings are sufficient for the vast majority users, professional or otherwise. One thing is certain — one company will never please all users, so they have to make difficult decisions. That being said, I agree that they should continue to support the Intel Mac Pro in some ways.
Apple made the same BS argument for its lack of standard interfaces in the 90s. Just use SCSI ((at at 2-5x (or more) the price)) Apple and its fanboys said. “SCSI is faster” they said. They lost that argument.
What I’d love to see on the MacBooks at some point would be an expansion port of some kind to house an SSD or leverage the SDXC slot in some way.
That could keep the soldered SSD as is but offer an option to expand storage and keep the USB-C ports free.
For my part, midi controller, sound card/mixer external drive is a knee breaker if anything else needs to go in.
That could keep the soldered SSD as is but offer an option to expand storage and keep the USB-C ports free.
For my part, midi controller, sound card/mixer external drive is a knee breaker if anything else needs to go in.
that’s not how chips work. The lower end chips are fabbed first. They are smaller and the yield can be higher. It takes longer to get the process working cleanly enough to be able to handle the larger more powerful chips. Intel generally brought out their lower end chips first. The big Xeons (that went into the Mac Pro) came out later and less frequently.
And yet most Mac owners don’t bother to run any Windows software. I finally deleted my last windows VM last year after realizing that I hadn’t opened it up in 3 years. Emptied the trash and freed up some space. Haven’t missed a thing.
Given the amount of misdirection and the number of suggestions on what coming next or not. The only thing to do is ignore 98% of what you read and think in the terms of Apple actually doing that, or not. Usually like thoughts are closer to the truth than what’s being made up to get an online business newspaper hits. Need we say more.
Well if the incredibly dumb rumors of them just sticking an M2 chip in it were true, it wouldn't help you exceed 128gb of RAM anyway. And that's one of the many reasons that if they can't make a Mac Pro that greatly exceeds the capabilities of a Mac Studio, they really shouldn't bother (and probably won't)... and should instead continue to just focus on the Mac Studio.
Though you can run Windows 11 in a VM and you can (or will be able to) run Asahi Linux. We always knew that the binaries would be different as this is a different chip architecture, but both Mac Os and Windows 11 do a good job of automatic cross-compilation.
I think they should do that anyway, but I am certain Apple is not actually concerned about one Mac eating the sales of another Mac... that is purely a stupid Mark Gurman hallucination. If Apple felt that way, they would only make one Macbook model, one iPhone model, and one iPad model, and nothing else.