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RIP Mac Pro, I guess. (appleinsider.com)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Given Apple's current locked-down trajectory with the Mac, the Mac Pro was gonna die eventually, and it's for the best that it does given it was reduced to little more than a massively overpriced Mac Studio grafted onto a useless PCIe backplane; a $12k grift, basically.

PCs at least are still modular and expandable; for now.

UPDATE: The Mac Pro is now officially dead.

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[–] [S] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Maya still has a Windows port so it'll be fine, also, Blender proved itself viable on the professional stage with Flow.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    So you think with no professional use people will train to use them when if you got hired by a company they won't use them? It seems like a scare to me. I'm not an apple user, but yikes

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    Assuming most of Hollywood isn't already Windows based given that OS still takes up 66% of the desktop market while Mac only takes up 14%.

    And given Blender's viability on the professional stage with Flow's success, I wouldn't be surprised if some smaller studios who weren't knee-deep in the Autodesk and either MS or Apple ecosystems either were already Linux-based or moved over to Linux.

    As for the hobbyist, they'll just use whatever OS they're already running generally, be that Windows, Mac, or an alternative, and I'm being vague with 'an alternative' so as to also count BSD or even OpenIndiana if one swings that way, in addition to Linux.

    Also, the Mac Studio, assuming the M4 Max and M3 Ultra both are more powerful than the M2 Ultra, should outpace the latest, and apparently final, Mac Pro.

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