Submitted 2 weeks ago by DFX4509B@lemmy.wtf to technology@lemmy.world
https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/11/17/in-with-a-bang-out-in-silence----the-end-of-the-mac-pro
Given Apple’s current locked-down trajectory with the Mac, the Mac Pro was gonna die eventually, and it’s for the best that it does given it was reduced to little more than a massively overpriced Mac Studio grafted onto a useless PCIe backplane; a $12k grift, basically.
I admit I’m using my 1,1 as an extra seat in the office, but it’s form of use.
My dad had a G5 (essentially the same case design externally) and this guy is probably not kidding, those things felt like a massive aluminium block
I admit I’m using my 1,1 as an extra seat in the office, but it’s form of use.
And I bought it back in 2006
Looks like non-functional 2006 Mac Pros are on eBay for $60. Cheaper than an office chair!
wdym, how does a block you sit on become non-functional?
The M-series Mac Pro was always for companies which were going to rack them and use them in render farms. Normal people was never its intended market. It was more of an Xserve successor.
Apple would need to design a different CPU for the Mac Pro, and the limited market doesn’t make it feasible. Descending the M-series CPUs from the A-series limits what the designs can do.
There are rumors of a CPU split in the Apple lineup. iPhone, iPad, iMac, Mac Mini, MacBook get the A-series, and MacBook Pro, Mac Studio. Mac Pro get the M-series. That would make sense, and might give them some room to expand the “Pro” procs.
I thought there were already some M-series iPads that gave some actual workstation laptops a run for their money though.
iPads have always had the problem of having waaaaay way more compute power than they were ever capable of utilizing.
Yep. The iPad Pro lineup is M-series.
Or - and this is a wild theory - just cripple the ones using a-series chips and keep the m-series the same but charge more.
A-series would already be at a disadvantage due to being designed for iPhones and the design parameters that entails compared to the M-series.
My wonders are around how this will effect the video software market in say 10 years. In 2010 if you said you wanted to get into video editing I would have said I dnt know much but people swear by professional tools developes for Mac os x.
If Mac Pros go aways, professional software wouldn’t be used by big industry, but rather just hobbyists… Which to me seems like the death of video editing long term on Mac.
Maya still has a Windows port so it’ll be fine, also, Blender proved itself viable on the professional stage with Flow.
So you think with no professional use people will train to use them when if you got hired by a company they won’t use them? It seems like a scare to me. I’m not an apple user, but yikes
Well this was very obviously coming. The last iteration was pointless and from that they didn’t bother to even refresh it in all these years, I assume it sold fuck all.
They’re overpriced crap now. You buy at a 3x premium for the hardware, and you get the OS. That’s it.
But it all lives in a big cheese grater
I’d consider it if they just sold it as an atx case. But then again, I probably couldn’t afford it because just the wheels accessory is $700.
Some businesses have that genetic ideological backbone that defines what they can and can’t do with good results.
In case of Apple - at some point they were a “cheaper and better for home users, but less serious and more toyish” computer company in their advertising and, well, quality. And in some sense this seems to have carried through from the 90s till now, as their equilibrium.
And honestly when in the 90s they were gradually becoming something more luxury, that was already a mistake. Then Jobs came with the NeXT purchase, and, of course, with Apple’s financial situation then it was probably the only way to survive to further go in that direction.
It actually made me optimistic about that company to read rumors about them preparing to go for lower market with another laptop model in 2026.
Because the world has changed, and I’d say not only Mac Pro is a suitcase without handle, I’d also say the same about iMacs. If they are not making an extensible stationary machine, then having a few laptop lines (cheap light, good light, powerful heavier) and a stationary line (well, Mac Mini and Mac Studio seem that, stationary normal and stationary powerful) is optimal. Since each line means expenses and different components and separate advertising.
It sort of feels as if they were returning to the roots. Perhaps they feel that they are stalled or losing in the mobile market, and same with the luxury market - their cult offensive was impressive, but it’s wearing out. While with desktops they have a chance at rapid expansion.
In no world has Apple ever been the cheaper option
The Mac Classic was the first Mac to sell for under $1k, and the ‘LC’ acronym stood for ‘Low-cost Color,’ that said IIRC even back then there were PC clones that were cheaper than the at-the-time cheapest Macs.
Also, IIRC the Apple IIc was sold as a cheaper variant of the Apple II line.
Their advertising pressed differently in early 90s.
Cloudlfare down. tl;Dr?
Apple is killing the Mac Pro.
It’s back up now.
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
maybe we’ll see the mac pro again in apple 2: the search for more money
adespoton@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Apple 2: the search for more money aired in 1977.
We’re WAY into the Apple Universe at this point.