Mac Pro Reportedly on 'Back Burner' and 'Largely Written Off' at Apple

[Omega Mac]

Where's the PCIe coming from? Only the super-expensive Ultra chips have significant PCIe to spare.

There are already various third-party hubs/docks that "stack" with the studio - and with short Thunderbolt cables they can be quite neat.

Why do you think it will be called the Mac Studio Pro and then there will the Mac Studio Pro+ but that is black project level ABTS at the moment 😉

 

[Ethosik]

And I liked xserves, welcome to the real world, where sometimes companies shift priorities and dont make what you want anymore

Also how could you have been the target market for the 7,1 if you wanted nvidia and CUDA? There was never an appropriate supported nvidia GPU or CUDA implementation that would have worked under macos in the 7,1 and been practical for that

You can’t have it both ways. Either make a proper desktop or don’t. Instead Apple neutered it and act like surprise pikachu when it doesn’t sell well?

 

[Ethosik]

It's not circular logic to look at a market segment and see that desktop sales in general are way down. That's nothing Apple-specific, and there's no reason to believe it would reverse.

Again Apple doesn’t need to severely over-engineer a flipping desktop. A simple Box like Dell provides is better than over engineering then killing it because it takes too much time to design.

 

[Ethosik]

And fewer and fewer people by desktop towers because Apple has neutered their desktop tower. Thus the circular argument.

EDIT: I would buy a Mac Pro but I see no point because it offers little over a Studio (which I do own). If the Mac Pro retained the ability to expand RAM and use different graphics cards I would buy one. But paying $3K more for what is almost a Mac Studio doesn't make sense, the value is not there.

Exactly. If the desktop is dead why do we have so many desktop GPUs getting released by NVIDIA and AMD? Shouldn’t we just have one or two versions?

 

[seek3r]

You can’t have it both ways. Either make a proper desktop or don’t. Instead Apple neutered it and act like surprise pikachu when it doesn’t sell well?

I dont think they’re acting as a surprised pikachu, they’re deliberately backburnering it. They’re clearly only making the mac pro at all because of an important but very niche market, they are definitely not expecting it to be a massive seller

 

[seek3r]

Exactly. If the desktop is dead why do we have so many desktop GPUs getting released by NVIDIA and AMD? Shouldn’t we just have one or two versions?

Fun fact: the memory shortage means that we are, in fact, going to be getting very few versions for at least a while

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