All that power and Logic will still crash on it after loading a few plugins. I’ll put tree fiddy on it.

If you look at those specs and complain about not being able to upgrade the machine you’re just being obtuse.

And that’s going to be the minimum specs to run their next operating system version, in six months.

Mmm, expensive cheese grater for expensive cheese.

And don't forget that when you buy the whole device they now have you locked in on software sales too.

Yes but you get stuck in the ecosystem when you buy it and that is what they really want. They want you giving them a cut everytime you buy a song, app, etc.

They used to use Intel chips to tie the apple ecosystem together on desktop. Now they have their own chips that make their desktop experience better in their apple ecosystem. But it's still all about the ecosystem.

and the wheels will be 1,000 this time

They kinda do now tho. Their M chips in their latest computers are now a big reason people go for Apple. More and more pros are buying Apple computers for the sole reason that the M chip in it is more powerful than quite a few PC chips for a lot of tasks. People used to buy MacBooks and iMacs mostly because it was “cool”, beautiful, functional out of the box, etc. Apple was for the most part a hype brand, only the “cool” people had those. They bought into the marketing just so they could be mostly showing off. Now people are starting to buy it for the hardware in those machines, because they’re actually that much better at actual benchmarks etc.

I thought the thumbnail was a cheese grater

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It may not be. We been waiting to see what a pro machine would look like in the system on a chip world of apple silicon.

So far the nearest has been the Apple Studio where it's not internally upgradable.

I'm sure they could but I really don't think Apple cares. Their product isn't Mac books or iPhones either. It's the apple ecosystem. Itunes, icloud, Siri, home thing if thats what it's called, etc. They want you stuck in it so you keep coming back to give them money. A GPU wouldn't cut it so isn't worth the investment to put on shelves. If you want to use their chips you need to buy their devices and be in their ecosystem.

Every sale of a high end GPU would mean one less entire workstation sale they could’ve forced into their camp.

It’s like asking them to sell their iphone software or SoC. They can make more money selling the whole phone, it’d cost them sales to sell it piecemeal . If you’ve got a killer market leading feature and an industry leading product you’re selling, you don’t sell the secret sauce to your competitors.

If it would be dominant, they’d rather sell a $6k workstation than a $2k part. Less driver support/compatibility to manage and more money.

Every other hardware company wishes they could pull in buyers and revenue like Apple does, why would Apple change?

Well, yes. But if they also sold hardware components they could probably do very well in that area too

Exponential growth be cray cray

Apple sells an ecosystem though. Not hardware components.

Knowing how good their video acceleration hardware is, they could easily dominate that market on all platforms. I’d personally expect the pro GPU market to be where they would probably try to compete if they did made a PCIe GPU+Video acceleration card available for the general computer market.

And having more options to pick from is always good.

Surely Apple, the highest valued company ever, is going to change their philosophy on creating things for other systems

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The link says it’s 999.00, which is still an absurd price for a stand. Want you Mac Pro on wheels? 699.00

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MX572ZM/A/apple-mac-pro-wheels-kit

An apple dGPU would be cool, especially if it’s available for both Mac and PC, it would add a 4th player to the GPU market.

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No components are upgradable.

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