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Robo
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Join Date: Jul 2004
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2017-06-06, 17:45

I think Kraetos and chucker are right in that the 2013 Mac Pro design required the thermal load to be evenly balanced among a CPU and two GPUs in a way that just wasn't where the market ended up going. I don't think it was just a "they should have just spun the fans faster" thing; they made a fundamental misjudgment on where the future was going for high-performance computing. They bet on (and spent a ton of money to build a bespoke saddle for) the wrong horse.

This isn't really speculation; Apple basically said as much, and I think we can actually take Apple at their word when they're talking about embarrassing design miscalculations for their flagship high-performance product.

and i guess i've known it all along / the truth is, you have to be soft to be strong

Last edited by Robo : 2017-06-06 at 18:15.
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