End of an era... Rightfully deserved. The only thing I truly miss about Intel is virtualization and Boot Camp. Otherwise Rosetta 2 has us mostly covered. For now...
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With M2 Ultra Mac Pro, Apple Completes Apple Silicon Transition and No Longer Sells Intel-Based Macs
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Plenty of people constantly banged on in the later years of intel that the sole reason Macs weren’t getting frequently updated (ie no new Mac Mini from 2014 to 2018, No new MacBook Air from 2015 to 2018 - not counting the 2017 slight spec bump).
I’ve always maintained that yes while intel chips were problematic with laptops, that Apple was mainly to blame for a lack of updates, especially in desktops.
$20,000 AUD for the high end configuration of the tower Mac Pro. Mamma Mia that's a spicy meatball. Imagine buying this and then next year Apple updates their Mac lineup with some zero latency wireless feature for Vision Pro, meaning you'd need to spend another $20,000 on a new Mac Pro just to take full advantage of Vision Pro.
Until Apple removes it from MacOS 15….
That’s Tim Cook’s Apple.
Money before design. Money before function. Money before everything.
You mean... Vision Pro?
I don't know if "blame" is the right word, but they are certainly the ones deciding when and if a Mac update takes place. And yes they have always been too few and far between for virtually everyone. Though I was surprised to see both MacBook Pro and MacStudio get complete updates for both M1 and M2 chip generations.
RIP Intel x86 in Apple Macs, been taking a bit longer but all good things must come to an end
honestly I think the silicon folks and the Mac product teams werent on the same page. I think this machine is a compromise, they didn't have to build out a new form of the M* series chips that broke out more things from the SoC/chiplet/bus designs just for the least sold machine and the product folks still got a Mac Pro with expansion slots to sell to the industries they want to keep that really need it (designers, film production, etc). This is probably neither the Mac Pro the product teams wanted nor the chip lineup the silicon teams wanted.
I also own a 2019 MBP 16-inch, and use Windows 10 via Parallels Desktop. Why would you need to upgrade the OS, aside from security updates? There’s nothing forcing you to do so, and there is no “ticking clock” that suddenly appeared because Apple stopped releasing Intel models.
Just because Apple has phased out Intel chips doesn’t mean that they won’t support what you are using through the warranty and extended warranty (AppleCare) period. Apple computers generally have seven years of hardware availability before being classified as “obsolete” by Apple, so even if something goes wrong in the next three years with the hardware, you should be fine.
Well the good news is the top spec Mac Pro is no longer $50k.
wheels can now be had at $400 - wasn't that $999 for an Intel MP?
I do think the desktop tech industry is likely to eventually truly follow. Here's hoping qualcomm either comes out with an impressive leap in their chips next iteration or microsoft finally gets out of their exclusivity with qualcomm, because that's what will shove ARM forward on mainstream desktops (personally I hope the latter or both, because that's what's likely preventing ARM Win11 bootcamp)
But you can use it as a display for your Mac, and make said display as large as you want.
How much design changes were between 2006 to 2012 ? 1 port on the front and back (FW400 to FW800) + GPU connectors.
yup, I think it's mostly on MS, no reason to not offer a retail version on ARM Windows - other than ties to Intel which I am sure still exist
If you're still buying Intel Macs now, you're nuts. I know there's still a few products where it's necessary, but you're sacrificing a lot.
Are you kidding? You really don't know anything about software and hardware development.
They have an existing old exclusivity deal with qualcomm for ARM based windows sales right now, that's why all ARM windows devices have qualcomm chips and why there isnt a retail version of ARM win11
Not saying change for the sake of change. M2 is much more power efficient and therefore unlikely need the same cooling architecture of the Intel Mac Pro.
The Mac Pro with an M2 Ultra is a really weird device to me. The 192GB RAM limit is much lower than the 1.5TB of the previous machine. And can you actually pop an Nvidia or AMD card into this thing? If not then what's the point? Just get the Mac Studio for $3000 less at every spec level and have a lot smaller footprint.
Do we believe Apple will eventually support NVIDIA cards in the PCIe 4.0 x16 slots?