I cannot think of any component in the current mac pro 2019 that would make the transition to an ARM mac pro, can you ? UNLESS they have an ARM CARD for that mac pro tower. My 68040 performa 6400 had a RISC Power PC G3 upgrade card 🙂 (with a purple heatsink)
Sure they could do that, you would still need slots presumably. I am not sure if any existing cards would work but something like that is possible. Or a complete redesign with a mini tower, still having a few slots of course.
Don't forget that the Cheesegrater 2.0 Mac Pro has two form factors--the new tower and the rack mount.
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Gosh , I hope your right , but it really looks like the 2 teams did not even talk. So which component in the 2019 mac pro would you retain in an arm version 🙂 ?? seriously ?? I know you need slots , but ....
Did you not watch the keynote when Craig was introducing Apple Silicone? You might recall that he mentioned that the demo of Big Sur, with the various software applications demo'd (including Microsoft 365 and FCP) were done on Mac Pro's running Apple Silicon. I think he also showed you an 'About This Mac' panel where it was listed. Ok, so it may have been smoke and mirrors, or maybe, just maybe, they are already a long way down that road. iFixit have shown that the processor on the MacPro has the ability to be lifted off. Hmmmm.
Such an ambiguous answer? If you are referring to the iFixit comment, go watch their video on it, and you can see for yourself what they were referring to. There is no way Apple would have brought out the MacPro last year, and not had SOC plans for it. As for the WWDC video it's linked and timestamped here.
Sigh, the apple silicone mac pro will require a completely different motherboard design. I hope they already have that but I honestly did not see any evidence of that at the launch... just a mac mini which is pretty cool in its own right ....
Apologies, the Craig demo was done on the Mac mini developer platform device. There has to be a reason why Apple have done what they've done, and they have a pretty good track record of not buggering things up too much (with hardware)
I am pretty optimistic as well, I was not trying to be cynical. I am just a bit unsure what to do .... I have just sold a 12 core 2013 for a lot of money to get ahead of the curve (my 5,1 models are fine for me) and I would like to know where to go next. I could afford a 7,1 , but its crazy to buy one now ..... (unless you can pay it off with specific work needs)
I see where you are coming from. With the amount of investment in the Mac Pro and the XDR display, it'd be hard to imagine they wouldn't want them to evolve with their own silicon. I think the Mac Pro will be the last to get it, as they no doubt will want to have proven it's capabilities before giving to that end of the pro market.
I was implying, that iFixit were implying, that was what the design was likely for. Time will tell.
I hope they keep the case (2019 mac pro) I am not sure why or what you could fill it with in the ARM world but it sure looks pretty 🙂 or maybe a cheesegrater minitower ....
Not at all. I have already written about the Cheesegrater 1.0 which lived for three years housing a PPC and for seven years housing Intel Xeons. The notion that you can't just pop a Xeon out of the Cheesegater 2.0 and drop-in a Xeon is an obvious fact. However, it is a huge leap in logic to then say that this precludes retention of the Cheesegrater 2.0 as the case for an Apple Silicon-based Mac Pro.
