I wouldn't buy a $7000 computer without a discrete GPU.
The PCIe slots look easy enough to get at.
Apple unveils new Mac Studio and brings Apple Silicon to Mac Pro
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Re: Apple unveils new Mac Studio and brings Apple Silicon to Mac Pro
#22I wouldn't buy a $7000 computer without a discrete GPU.
You’re not the target audience.
Re: Apple unveils new Mac Studio and brings Apple Silicon to Mac Pro
#23I didn’t see a reason to upgrade and I feel I am their audience here, I own the last one.
TBF I had the Macbook from 2015 before I felt like upgrading to the M1 in 2021. You usually buy Macs every year?
Well, the previous Pro came out in 2019 (and the model before that 2013). Every four years is not unreasonable.
https://everymac.com/ultimate-mac-lookup/?search_keywords=A1...
Re: Apple unveils new Mac Studio and brings Apple Silicon to Mac Pro
#24I think this new Mac Pro is more geared for PCIe developers so they can start testing drivers etc and the big launch will be with the M3.
It really doesn't offer any huge benefits over the Mac Studio.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
What if you needed its other features?
It's a computer. I'm sure the other features are available in other packages in one form or another. That said, for business-to-business I bet these are great machines.
If one of your requirements is running macOS, I guess it will be hard to get elsewhere.
Re: Apple unveils new Mac Studio and brings Apple Silicon to Mac Pro
#26It's a little interesting that that are going to the Video 1st/ Training second model and abandoning the HPC market where they can't compete with high, multi TB workstations.
But I guess it's playing to the strength that video decode/encode has right now with the M series chips.
I wish that they would have a tiered memory expansion, eg 192gb fast tier, and expandable to 1.5TB slower but DDR5 expandable.
Re: Apple unveils new Mac Studio and brings Apple Silicon to Mac Pro
#27The Mac Pro link in this page shows the Intel Xeon-based system. I was very confused
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#28Is this event entirely AI-generated? Backgrounds seem too perfect, speeches seem too tight.
All the Apple presentations like this are very polished
Re: Apple unveils new Mac Studio and brings Apple Silicon to Mac Pro
#29Does anybody have the specs on the M2 Ultra chip? Looks like it supports up to 192GB of unified RAM, which is twice the 96GB of the M2 Max, so is this just 4 silicon dies jammed up against each other? (Apple website hasn't been updated yet with this info, but I'm very curious!)
Edit: Ah, looks like they made a separate press release with that info here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36199637
Re: Apple unveils new Mac Studio and brings Apple Silicon to Mac Pro
#30For the modest price of 77k dollars!!! I will use vectorization and multithreading instead, thanks!
Are you off by one order of magnitude? Or does this cost as much as a couple quite nice cars.
I spend a whole bunch more time at my Mac than I do in a car, and gain much more value from it too, so that doesn't seem unreasonable...