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Apple discontinues Mac Pro after 20 years — system had been in stuck in stasis with M2 Ultra since 2023 (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/hardware@lemmy.world
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Apple's iconic tower is gone, succeeded by the Mac Studio.

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[+] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)
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    I remember, yes.

    I never owned one, no. And I’ve owned only Macs since 2003.

    Plus an eMate in 1998. Wasn’t with a socketed chip.

    Not really sure why it would improve anything. Changing the chip usually meant sticking with the old, slow bus. Which meant the RAM was slow, too.

    I did upgrade to more RAM and SSD every chance I got, though. Apple’s RAM upgrade surcharges are ridiculous. Ditto storage.

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    I guess? I don’t know. Seems like everything is advancing rapidly, hardware-wise. So when something is long in the tooth, replacing one component doesn’t get you very far. And sockets and slots have performance and cost and space compromises I don’t want to make.

    And old systems are still useful.

    I tend to own things until they’re completely unusable as intended (5-10 years), then find a second-tier use for them (eg linux server). Then recycle them when even that is untenable.

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    [–] 25 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Is this the second or third time the Mac Pro has officially died?

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    • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I miss osx server and the rackmount.

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    • [–] 6 points 7 months ago

    hasn't been updated in years. maybe at all? not a big surprise.

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    [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    Gotta find something else to grate your cheese.

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    [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Perhaps the best looking Mac ever made (IMO) but doesn’t make much sense with how apple does things these days. Just wish I could get a PC case that looks like that.

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    • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    With the increase in thunderbolt capacity and the lack of gpu cards there wasn’t a lot of use for the pci- slots in 2026.

    The new Mac studios really filled the needs for many that the Mac Pro targeted.

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    • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    Great looking case though. These are gonna make some cool projects in 5-10 years

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