Comment by caycep
21 hours ago
What are the chances there will be another Mac Pro in the future?
Will Apple ever make a computer that makes Siracusa happy? (and do you have the "Believe" shirt?)
21 hours ago
What are the chances there will be another Mac Pro in the future?
Will Apple ever make a computer that makes Siracusa happy? (and do you have the "Believe" shirt?)
Never, a couple of years ago Apple gave up on the server market, that is why having Swift on Linux is so relevant for app developers.
Now they gave up on the workstation market that really enjoys their slots for all myriad of cards.
Having a thunderbolt cable salad is only for those that miss external extensions from 8 and 16 bit home computer days.
Which is clearly what Apple is nowadays focused, if you look back at the vertical integrations before the PC clones market took off.
So now if you really need a workstation, it is either Windows, or one of those systems sold with Red-Hat Enterprise/Ubuntu from IBM, Dell , HP.
If you want a workstation, you are probably better off building it yourself, or having your local computer store do it. The primary exceptions are AMD strix halos or the nvidia dgx spark.
I haven’t seen a non-laughable workstation config from the big vendors since the dot com bubble. Presumably they exist, I guess?
DISCLAIMER: Only speaking for myself, not employers or affiliates.
I've been pretty darn happy with the Puget Systems custom workstation I ordered last year before the memory craze started (especially since it has 192GiB of DDR5).
I also ordered another family member a custom "Tiki" system from Falcon Northwest and that has also been quite excellent from what I've seen and they've told me.
Now is obviously not the most economical time to order a new system, but when it is appropriate (and for what it's worth) I think those are two great system builders.
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Yes they exist, and business aren't building PCs from parts themselves.
Just because you're cheap and don't value your time, doesn't mean they don't exist.
They get features that us plebs buying retail don't get, at prices the vast majority of us wouldn't pay if it were our own cash.
IMHO - extremely little.
It is too inefficient to design a machine which _might_ have two GPU and a flock of additional drives installed into it. It just makes sense to instead design around having independent hardware in its own case, which can meet its own power/cooling needs. This has been a design goal since the trashcan Mac.
Having a PCIe bus increases bandwidth and reduces latency, but once you account for eGPU and for people who would be happy building custom solutions on platforms other than macOS, there's likely not enough identified market for a modular design.
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