MP All Models Waiting for MacPro M5

[flowrider]

^^^^I'm a bit older - my first record purchase:



Lou

 

[basslik]

LOVE IT, nice!

 

[davidec]

So if we see a Mac Studio M5 do we bite the bullet and assume no MP M5 on the way? I would hope Apple would not want to send out the wrong message (here's an M5 Mac Studio but we are secretly going to to release an MP M5 later), however irrelevant / small a demographic we are.

 

[M3Stang]

So if we see a Mac Studio M5 do we bite the bullet and assume no MP M5 on the way? I would hope Apple would not want to send out the wrong message (here's an M5 Mac Studio but we are secretly going to to release an MP M5 later), however irrelevant / small a demographic we are.

For real it's gotta happen. I am in the market. Really want something with internal expansion that can crush LLMs. I Mac Studio doesn't do it for me.

 

[H. Flower]

So if we see a Mac Studio M5 do we bite the bullet and assume no MP M5 on the way?

I think I’m going to. I feel like the cost of computer hardware is going to skyrocket soon and I don’t want to wait.

 

[BetraySoul]

For real it's gotta happen. I am in the market. Really want something with internal expansion that can crush LLMs. I Mac Studio doesn't do it for me.

macOS 26.2 introduced RDMA over Thunderbolt support. Many people already use multiple Mac Studios to build clusters for running LLMs locally. It would be great to have a Mac Pro with new upgradable modules that expand unified memory (perhaps via RDMA over PCIe or a new proprietary interconnect) and accelerate specific workloads like LLMs. That would be a beast.

 

[M3Stang]

macOS 26.2 introduced RDMA over Thunderbolt support. Many people already use multiple Mac Studios to build clusters for running LLMs locally. It would be great to have a Mac Pro with new upgradable modules that expand unified memory (perhaps via RDMA over PCIe or a new proprietary interconnect) and accelerate specific workloads like LLMs. That would be a beast.

That would be awesome. I saw RDMA, and bought 2 Mac minis. Wasn't till I set them up I realized it needed TB5, so I returned those. My main machine is an M4 Max MacBook Pro 14" binned so I only have 36GB ram. It runs some LLMs OK but the one that works the best doesn't run well Qwen3-Coder:30b. I run it on my 3090 Ti Server instead with Tailscale lately, but that's annoying and it uses a ton of power.

 

[SDAVE]

So if we see a Mac Studio M5 do we bite the bullet and assume no MP M5 on the way? I would hope Apple would not want to send out the wrong message (here's an M5 Mac Studio but we are secretly going to to release an MP M5 later), however irrelevant / small a demographic we are.

New Mac Pro status is pretty bleak. I don't see any incentive from Apple to keep updating this thing, I don't think its selling well at all. The last speed bump was the M2 Ultra years ago.

It's a beautiful and over-engineered chassis that's already 7 years old but who's it made for? Only folks who need some PCIe slots and internal storage. It only has 32 PCIe lanes, compared to Intel's 64 PCIe lanes. The power supply is overkill, RAM isn't upgradeable. No GPU support.

A lot of these professional PCIe cards can be connected with external Thunderbolt boxes now, and I think a lot of professionals moved that route already especially with the long gap between the 2013 Mac Pro and 2019 Mac Pro.

We will see this year if Apple does anything for the Mac Pro....

 

[avro707]

Lenovo PX Is the nearest thing now to a 7,1 Mac Pro, and priced accordingly.

 

[SDAVE]

Lenovo PX Is the nearest thing now to a 7,1 Mac Pro, and priced accordingly.

But Windows 😀

 

[avro707]

But Windows 😀

The Mac has Tahoe… Windows is fine - I can use both no problems.

 

[Mac3Duser]

Lenovo PX Is the nearest thing now to a 7,1 Mac Pro, and priced accordingly.

P7 and P8, because PX has two cpu and psu