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If Apple made an $8-10k flagship machine, what would its specs be?

Keeping the current Mac Pro design, it would use a Blade server type structure with each of the 3 boards supporting a CPU socket, 2 DIMM slots and an M.2 slot. A taller version would be available to provide GPUs to fit on the bottom base.
 
boast said:
Keeping the current Mac Pro design, it would use a Blade server type structure with each of the 3 boards supporting a CPU socket, 2 DIMM slots and an M.2 slot. A taller version would be available to provide GPUs to fit on the bottom base.
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Current Xeons have quad channel memory, so fewer than 4 DDR4 DIMM slots per CPU socket is leaving performance (and capacity) on the table.

8 to 12 DIMM slots per CPU is more typical for workstations and low end servers.

And M.2 is very old tech, more current would be PCIe x4 NVMe storage.
 
AidenShaw said:
Current Xeons have quad channel memory, so fewer than 4 DDR4 DIMM slots per CPU socket is leaving performance (and capacity) on the table.

8 to 12 DIMM slots per CPU is more typical for workstations and low end servers.

And M.2 is very old tech, more current would be PCIe x4 NVMe storage.
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I haven't done the sizing, but I don't think the boards have enough space to fit more than 2 DIMM slots along with an M.2 slot.

M.2 supports PCIe x4 NVMe storage. It is only a connector.
 
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