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Re:Apple Silicon M1 Macs do not support eGPUs by NovemberWhiskey on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @10:32AM (#25059159)
But this product segmentation is not at all new. Apple has never had a "pro" workstation-style laptop like the Thinkpad P. The MacBook Pro line has always been relatively-thin, relatively-light, not-very-upgradable: going back almost fifteen years.

I agree that Apple isn't trying to serve the market for "portable workstation", but they never really have, so why do you say they have lost their way?

It's also worth saying you can still buy a 16" MacBook Pro with an 8-core i9 processor, 64GB of RAM, a Radeon Pro 5600M with 8GB of RAM, 8TB of SSD storage - a specification that's hardly "casual".

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Re:Apple Silicon M1 Macs do not support eGPUs by gumby on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @03:19PM (#25062520)
> Apple has never had a "pro" workstation-style laptop like the Thinkpad P. The MacBook Pro line has always been relatively-thin, relatively-light, not-very-upgradable: going back almost fifteen years.

The 17" lunch trays were that product, and were bought by people who wanted to edit photos in the field or get a lot of spreadsheet cells on the display. They had the highest performance as well.

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Re:Apple Silicon M1 Macs do not support eGPUs by robertoandred on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @08:59PM (#25065561)
They were just as thin and upgradable as the other PowerBooks/MacBook Pros.
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