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Re:Mac Pros, Ara, and Modularity by wlesieutre on Wednesday October 30, 2013 @08:10PM (#6644456)
Even if it's a socket, Intel's been churning out new sockets every 2 years or so. On desktops it's gone LGA 1156 (2009), LGA 1155 (2011), LGA 1150 (2013). For servers it's LGA 771 (2006), LGA 1366 (2008), and LGA 1567 (2010). You have a pretty limited upgrade window. One tick/tock, and then your socket is outdated.

The new Mac Pro, provided it's socketed, would be on LGA 2011.

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Re:Mac Pros, Ara, and Modularity by CPAhem on Wednesday October 30, 2013 @10:50PM (#6644943)
Yes, the socket thrashing by Intel is a bigger problem.

You'll probably have an interesting time updating an LGA2011 in 2015, never mind the RAM.

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Re:Mac Pros, Ara, and Modularity by jotm on Wednesday October 30, 2013 @09:16PM (#6644679)
That's beneficial for those who will want to upgrade - once the new sockets are out, the prices for the previous generation chips will go down - you can potentially upgrade from the base quad core to a six core processor, giving it a good boost in performance.
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Re:Mac Pros, Ara, and Modularity by gutnor on Thursday October 31, 2013 @05:01AM (#6645818)
That has almost always been a problem. Even in the past when you could keep socket for 5 years, the chipset on the motherboard was limiting you upgradability to processor of the same generation.
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