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Re:Apple discontinues the Mac Pro with no plans for future h... by mixdup on Friday March 27, 2026 @08:25AM (#47541868)
The proposition of a Mac Pro in the Apple Silicon world wasn't necessarily about performance, it was about the existence of the PCIe slots. I don't think AI becoming a workload for pro Macs means the Mac Pro doesn't have a place, people who were using Mac Pros for audio or video capture didn't stop doing that media work and switched to AI as a profession. That market just wasn't big enough to sustain the Mac Pro in the first place and Apple has finally acknowledged that fact
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Re:Apple discontinues the Mac Pro with no plans for future h... by alsetmusic on Friday March 27, 2026 @09:23AM (#47542357)
I had a U-Audio PCI card in a Mac Pro during the Intel era of Macs. It was a chip to run their software plugins and the plugins are top of the line. I have a U-Audio box that runs over Thunderbolt now. I know there are people who need device slots, but it's vanishingly few. I'm disappointed that this category of machine is going away, but it stopped being for me in the Apple Silicon era.
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Re:Apple discontinues the Mac Pro with no plans for future h... by grahamlee on Friday March 27, 2026 @08:29AM (#47541902)
so many peripherals now come in external boxes that communicate _incredibly quickly_ over Thunderbolt 4/5 that the need for PCIe is marginal, while the cost to support it is significant.
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