Think of it like this, they sell an accelerator card, people go “hey, this apple GPU is awesome”. then apple tells them it works even better in their own computers, because it does, and people go “I guess I should buy an apple computer, I can run my video editing software even faster.”

And then you have people both. Buying your accelerators, and entire systems. Now the ecosystem caters to a wide variety of users, not just “Pros, and facebook scrollers”.

Now apple would have to directly compete with AMD, Nvidia, and Intel. But this competition should potentially help drive innovation, which would help rapidly accelerate the growth and development of computer technology in a 4 way arms race.

This whole comment thread reeks of poverty

This whole comment thread stinks of poverty

I don’t care, a balanced economy is needed, and this is a way to do it.

They do have their afterburner card, and the Mac Pro already uses a modified version of PCIe. The key difference is the M1 macs are laptops and all in ones, and the Mac Pro is a modular system. It’s a different beast. The MacBook Pro has to be power efficient as well as fast, where a desktop computer like the Mac Pro does not have that limitation. The current Mac Pro already uses infinity fabric bridges to link the graphics cards. Apple could easily design an accelerator card that has everything you need in one card. A GPGPU isn’t hard to design. You just have to understand form factors.

I know Reddit is anti-Apple anything so I'll probably be downvoted, but people do realize this is not marketed to general / avg consumers, right? $25,000 workstations are nothing new, regardless if they're made by Apple or not.

I'm sure Apple is also testing thier ability to slow it down for when the new edition is released.

They don’t run that well on current gen macs so safe to say that tradition will continue

That much RAM is for high end video processing and other intensive situations.

But you can’t get an AMD in a cheese grater

I believe it’s 192gb of RAM - not storage.

Memory. Not storage.

The 192 GB refers to memory, aka RAM, not storage. RAM stands for Random Access Memory, which is used for holding data for running applications and is randomly accessible, meaning the CPU can access data from any address in memory. Large amounts of RAM like this may be used for rendering 3d environments, editing high resolution footage, or other intensive applications. For reference, your xbox has 12 GB of RAM, and my mid-tier PC has 16 GB of RAM, so 192 is quite a lot. Also this is a desktop computer, not a laptop.

192 gb is of ram not storage, the Xbox has 1 terabyte of storage and probably only like 8-16 gb of ram not really sure. But ram allows you to run multiple applications at once whereas those applications are stored in storage when you install them

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Can some explain to me why anyone would buy a laptop with 192GB of memory? My Xbox one x has a terabyte and I bought it years ago. I’m genuinely confused.

I want to hear from the nerds versed in 3D animation. How well would this architecture fare with Cinema 3D/Blender/Maya et al? I’ve heard that the current issue is the application software itself not being sufficiently optimized for the M1/2 studio/ultra macs. Is that still the case and the outlook?

I'm not sure it'd work out. A lot of what makes M1 work is having everything on the same fabric. It gives them awesome memory bandwidth, unity memory so the gpu properly shares the cpu's ram, giving zero transfer time, etc. A lot of the gains come from architecture that wouldn't survive being taken off the SoC package.

That said, I'd love to be proven wrong, because competition is good.

(On the down side, it's also why we're unlikely going to see replaceable RAM - taking it off the chiplets would take it off the fabric, and lose that bandwidth. Best-case scenario is the on-package RAM and the replaceable RAM would work on different tiers, making the on-package RAM the mother of all caches.)

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It's $1k, but they STILL sell that thing? For that price you can buy a 3D printer and literally PRINT your own monitor stand!

Fewer cores than amd and likely 2-4x the price, not worth it

Point: Mac bad! Apple bad! Fire baad!

Female astronomers are gushing and squirting over the latest technology for cameras!

I have a 2014 Mac mini running the latest OS no problem. I don’t get your point

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