Yeah, exactly. Your comment about focus raises an interesting question: what's Apple going to do about the Mac Pro? Except for the 13" MacBook Pro which just cannot be long for this world, every Apple silicon Mac is positioned remarkably clearly. So what focus is going to distinguish the Mac Pro from the Mac Studio?
Honestly, the only reason the Mac Studio isn't called the Mac Pro is because people would (rightly) freak out if it appeared Apple was making the same mistake they made with the cube and the trash can, again. But for all intents and purposes the Mac Studio is the Apple silicon Mac Pro. Most of what you'd want an MPX module for is on an Apple silicon SoC, and without MPX the current Mac Pro is just an outlandishly large Mac.
I think the Mac Pro that drops at WWDC is going to be something else entirely. It's suspicious that the Mac Studio seems almost intentionally un-rackable: at 3.7" x 7.7" x 7.7" it's right between 2U and 3U vertically and 4U and 5U horizontally.
That can't be an oversight. They don't want us to rack the Studio even though everyone racks the Mac mini, because the Mac Pro is going to be a datacenter-grade Mac. Apple silicon is just so far ahead of anything Intel and AMD are cranking out on performance-per-watt, and you know what datacenters just can't get enough of? Performance-per-watt.
The market is there for the taking if Apple decides they want it.
Logic, logic, logic. Logic is the beginning of wisdom, Valeris, not the end.
Last edited by Kraetos : 2022-03-11 at 22:11.
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