You wonder are they talkiing the machine with four M1 Max SoC's "stitched" together. That machine could be perfect for editing 8K videos used for theatrical movies easily.
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Apple Teases Apple Silicon Mac Pro at Spring Event
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fabric and the arhictecture of the M1 Max, it has link just in one side
Once USB4 comes out these boxes won't cost so much. Gamers and ML engineers need these PCIe slots, I'm not sure if regular Mac pro users do.
hmm, that would mean it needs M2 Max / M2 ultra... it doesn't make sense that they would reveal that so soon after revealing M1 Max / M1 Ultra... Or it means the new Mac Pro is like 2 years away. but I doubt that. I think we will see a M1 series Mac pro
I understand what you're saying but internal vs external cards are completely different.
I have an eGPU enclosure for my Mini, it cost around $250. I have a Blackmagic card from my old Mac Pro again that I'd like to use again, I'd have to plunk down at least $200 to get it running on my Mini. An enclosure for any card is going to run at minimum $200+ and use wall outlets and cabling that could have been kept inside a tower.
Then there is the rest of the industry and ultimately world. All PCs that have a slot use a standard card slot.
If Apple abandons the PCIe slot, its just them trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist.
We don't.
Apple can do a 2x Ultra by using MCM. They don't need to use an chip interposer as suggested by the other poster.
My max feels slower..
Those new display's look nice. Maybe if/when I move to my new apartment with a dedicated office/den I'll upgrade. I"m basically using it as a desktop anyway.
Wonder how it will compare to the 16" screen.
Probably confusing the spec where they said it's 80 percent faster than MacPro.
I'm curious what an AS Mac Pro will be like. Considering many people like modularity- RAM, drives, PCIe slots, etc., AS seems like the antithesis of at least the first two. Not sure what PCIe expandability will bring. RAM & drives, though will be hard. Maybe PCIe drives and 3rd party internal drive cages. If RAM is soldered, they'd have to add a LOT of RAM. Going from a max of 1.5 TB of RAM to the 128 GB like in the Mac Studio, or even 256 GB would piss off a lot of people.
When I hear that, I think one more product line. The iMac is already been upgraded. Doesn't mean they won't make new screen sizes, but I guess a Mac Mini and a Studio dispaly wouldn't be the end of the world and not a ton more then a 27" iMac...well yea still more when you factor in keyboard and mice etc.
Source? Until today we didn’t even know it had one, so don’t believe Apple’s marketing shots. Until now the Jade rumor has been accurate, so I have no reason to believe it won’t be in this regard as well.
That interconnect is for physically fusing the chips together. You could still have 2 M1 Ultras on package with the RAM. So it would still be a single package.
I have so many clients waiting for the 27" iMac release. I really hope that's what they meant with that statement.
Given that Apple shoots for big use-cases, I have to imagine that their first AS MacPro is going to be touted as being able to render cinema quality 3D in real-time, or deal with huge machine learning models with gigantic data sets at impossibly fast speeds. I'm expecting them to come out of the gate claiming 10x faster than Intel MacPro.
Given that, I'm going to have to assume that for M2 they are creating some kind of a SoC backbone that can stack many, perhaps a dozen SoCs on a single high-speed network.
Crazy days at Apple!
Given that, I'm going to have to assume that for M2 they are creating some kind of a SoC backbone that can stack many, perhaps a dozen SoCs on a single high-speed network.
Crazy days at Apple!