Re:The Mac Pro’s biggest problem is the MacBook
by fragmede on Thursday June 29, 2023 @04:29AM
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That implies that the yields were off for the M2 SuperMax or M3 or whatever, so they couldn't make enough of them to sell a product.
Re:The Mac Pro’s biggest problem is the MacBook
by PedroBatista on Thursday June 29, 2023 @06:01AM
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Not necessarily, the yields could be OK but the performance bump of the real silicon didn’t materialize.
Re:The Mac Pro’s biggest problem is the MacBook
by Spooky23 on Thursday June 29, 2023 @08:20AM
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Maybe - they may not have been able to package it. Workloads are usually CPU bound or memory bound. If I need 200 cores to get a TB of memory, that’s a waste of money.
Intel segmented their products because they had the similar constraints. There’s a mondo-expensive 8 core 4 GHz+ part, and a part with lots of cores at half the speed. In Intels case, the memory is of course not part of the SoC.
The M1/M2 is brilliant for the form factors that consist of about 90% of PC demand. Macs are better as a device than almost any PC on a few axes.
But… an architecture using an SoC to scale from an iPhone to a large personal server, which is what a modern era Workstation really is will hit limits.
IMO, the failure was they were boxed into dropping MacOS Intel support in the near future, and for whatever reason were unable to ship the Apple Silicon they intended to. So they shipped a compromised Mac Pro that meets the needs of a few key use cases that can sorta work with the limited top line memory.