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Re:Apple M3 Ultra by pavlov on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @02:35PM (#43271195)
The Mac Studio hit a sweet spot in 2023 that the trash can Mac Pro couldn't ten years earlier. It's mostly thanks to the high integration of Apple Silicon and improved device availability and speed of Thunderbolt.

The 2013 Mac Pro was stuck forever with its original choice of Intel CPU and AMD GPU. And it was unfortunately prone to overheating due to these same components.

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Re:Apple M3 Ultra by wtallis on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @05:12PM (#43273378)
The trash can also suffered from hitting the market right around when the industry gave up on making dual-GPU work.
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Re:Apple M3 Ultra by MBCook on Thursday March 06, 2025 @12:21AM (#43276684)
Yep. It was designed for CPU grunt, and came out right when people swapped to wanting tons of GPU grunt.

The cooling solution wasn’t designed for huge GPUs. So it couldn’t really be upgraded in ways most people wanted.

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Re:Apple M3 Ultra by pjmlp on Thursday March 06, 2025 @02:32AM (#43277453)
Folks that want to keep the customisation aspect of Mac Pro hardly see that.

In fact a very famous podcaster is still holding out to his.

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Re:Apple M3 Ultra by TylerE on Thursday March 06, 2025 @02:37AM (#43277481)
The Studio also hits a sweet spot for home users like me that want tons of IO and no built in input devices.
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