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Re:The Mac Pro’s biggest problem is the MacBook by mort96 on Thursday June 29, 2023 @07:32AM (#36519037)
> [Apple] doesn't have a chip with a tonne of transceivers on it that it can use to hook up a massive GPU

What do you mean? It has an x16 PCIe 4 slot, that's more than enough for any video card.

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Re:The Mac Pro’s biggest problem is the MacBook by efxhoy on Thursday June 29, 2023 @07:37AM (#36519076)
You can’t run video cards in the new Mac Pro. https://www.macrumors.com/2023/06/11/apple-exec-discusses-ma...
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Re:The Mac Pro’s biggest problem is the MacBook by mort96 on Thursday June 29, 2023 @07:41AM (#36519112)
I know. I'm saying the problem isn't a lack of PCI bandwidth or anything like that as my parent comment suggested.
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Re:The Mac Pro’s biggest problem is the MacBook by davrosthedalek on Thursday June 29, 2023 @08:57AM (#36519771)
Is that a hardware limitation, or just the lack of willingness to provide software support? I can't really imagine the former.
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Re:The Mac Pro’s biggest problem is the MacBook by greedo on Thursday June 29, 2023 @10:17AM (#36520678)
Apple has said that it isn't a direction they've wanted to pursue.
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