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Apple's last tower topples… and the others will follow (www.theregister.com)

submitted 1 day ago by Powderhorn@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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Apple has discontinued the Mac Pro – but it's just the first of the tower computers to go. The rest will follow soon.

Fruit-sniffers extraordaire 9-to-5 Mac got the news yesterday, complete with official confirmation from Apple itself. It's official and it's happened, but there have been warning signs for months – in November 2025, Bloomberg's Matt Gurman said "The Mac Pro is on the back burner."

The phantom fruit-flingers of Silicon Valley launched the seven-thousand-buck Apple Silicon-based Mac Pro in June 2023, with an M2 Ultra SoC. It sported seven PCIe slots – but the problem was that cash-rich customers couldn't add the sorts of expansion that normally go into a PCIe slot… to the extent that Apple publishes a page about PCIe cards you can install in your Mac Pro (2023). Notably, the machine did not support add-on GPUs: only the GPU that's integrated into the CPU complex along with the machine's RAM and primary flash storage. The machine also had no RAM expansion whatsoever.

Presumably, this limited its appeal for many traditional buyers, and the machine never saw an M3 or M4 model, let alone the M5 SoC that The Register covered shortly before Bloomberg called the Arm64 cheesegrater's fate.

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[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 6 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (2 children)

This is a bad article. It's just an Apple fanboy watching their company continue its trend of shitting on customers and assuming that everyone inevitably will, apparently never once reflecting on whether their insistence of sticking with Apple is the real problem.

Their argument boils down to CPUs increasingly integrating basic versions of other components over time meaning that desktops will disappear... Ignoring that the desktop market has stayed surprisingly flat that entire time and has certainly not disappeared.

If your argument is that integrated CPUs will outclass discrete components connected with high speed buses then you need to make it from an engineering standpoint, not a headline one.

I also don't understand his reasoning that because NVidia don't buy ARM they don't get to make an integrated CPU.... Nvidia made and sold an integrated ARM CPU before ever being rumoured to buy them, and they still make and sell it to this day ... because ARM's entire business model is based on companies like Nvidia licensing their designs.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 1 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

It’s just an Apple fanboy

checks article history

Almost all of their articles are about Linux.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

And what hardware do they run Linux on? And what phone do they use? And what TV device?

And if they're not a mac phone boy, then they're insistence of looking at Apple as the only possible sign of industry trends is mind boggingly narrow.

[–] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 2 points 20 hours ago

Hey now, let's let this user craft their own reality!

[–] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 0 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

It's an opinion piece. I don't agree with all of it, either.

This said, do you really miss having a northbridge and southbridge?

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 hours ago

Do I really miss it? It never once came up in any practical situation.

You would buy a mobo and a CPU and put them together and not think about the specific buses or controllers you have available, unless you had a very specific reason to.

Unless we're talking about a mobile power constrained device, I certainly would rather have expandable RAM and graphics cards then everything slammed in a single unchanging chip.