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Intel may be the only way to save the Mac Pro | MacRumors Forums
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MP All Models Intel may be the only way to save the Mac Pro
Oct 22, 2008
Vienna, Austria
Interesting article by macworld: https://www.macworld.com/article/1518344/mac-pro-apple-silicon-transition-intel-xeon-processors.html
Personally I do not see this happening. – If for no other reason, it would simply be Apple losing its face.
On the other hand they showed to be quite pragmatic about reversing some of their decisions in the past and even admitting they were wrong. The Mac Pro family with the 2013 model and follow up 2019 model are excellent examples.
IMHO they could have updated the Intel Mac Pro with a newer Xeon chip some year(s) ago, there were even rumors about an XCode beta featuring newer Xeon ids in its code. But I assume from a marketing pov it would simply not have been wise – benchmark comparison of the M chips vs. the Intel Mac Pro would not look so nice anymore…
Personally I would still love to see another Intel Mac Pro revision – sooner or later I am sure it will join the Apple Silicon family – but for the time being I would most likely buy another Intel model to be able to run Windows and macOS on the same machine natively, upgrade PCI cards, RAM and disk space.
Personally I do not see this happening. – If for no other reason, it would simply be Apple losing its face.
On the other hand they showed to be quite pragmatic about reversing some of their decisions in the past and even admitting they were wrong. The Mac Pro family with the 2013 model and follow up 2019 model are excellent examples.
IMHO they could have updated the Intel Mac Pro with a newer Xeon chip some year(s) ago, there were even rumors about an XCode beta featuring newer Xeon ids in its code. But I assume from a marketing pov it would simply not have been wise – benchmark comparison of the M chips vs. the Intel Mac Pro would not look so nice anymore…
Personally I would still love to see another Intel Mac Pro revision – sooner or later I am sure it will join the Apple Silicon family – but for the time being I would most likely buy another Intel model to be able to run Windows and macOS on the same machine natively, upgrade PCI cards, RAM and disk space.
randy85
macrumors regular
Oct 3, 2020
I wonder what the truth is regarding the "one more Intel Mac we're excited about". Was there going to be a refreshed Intel Mac Pro at some point? Now would be another decent opportunity given the new Xeon chips, but it feels like the time has been and gone.
In an ideal world though, it would be great to see an update. Tweaked motherboard, new Xeons, larger base SSD size, and a couple of new AMD MPX modules. Just quietly refresh that at the same time as releasing the Apple Silicon version.
It would help keep any negativity about expandability of the AS version at bay e.g. "users who still need 1.5TB of RAM can still purchase the Intel version". That'd buy Apple some time to work out how to really get huge performance out of Apple Silicon for the next version.
In an ideal world though, it would be great to see an update. Tweaked motherboard, new Xeons, larger base SSD size, and a couple of new AMD MPX modules. Just quietly refresh that at the same time as releasing the Apple Silicon version.
It would help keep any negativity about expandability of the AS version at bay e.g. "users who still need 1.5TB of RAM can still purchase the Intel version". That'd buy Apple some time to work out how to really get huge performance out of Apple Silicon for the next version.
chrfr
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That's not the quote. John Ternus said that there was just "one more product to go," the Mac Pro, last year, I think at about the time the Mac Studio was released, and back in 2020 Apple said they had Intel models in the pipeline. The 2020 Intel iMac was released after that statement.I wonder what the truth is regarding the "one more Intel Mac we're excited about".
Apple releasing an Intel Mac now would be taken as an indication that switching to Apple Silicon was a failure because the architecture can't scale. It'll never happen.
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