It's boring because it's sane and effective. Magic is taken for granted today.
Adjusted for inflation the new Mac Pro remains about the same price as the 1984 Macintosh. But it's about 1 million times more powerful, conservatively. Griping about being overcharged is typical, but they study their market and price accordingly. For people making a living using the devices they are effectively free.
The GPU has already been sized for the market, like everything else it will get fatter with future models, but it's completely appropriate to tasks.
It looks like Apple held out on CPU clock freq back in day to retain headroom for 20% increase announced today? Can anyone confirm or clarify this point?
Everyone griped there wasn't enough RAM, Apple tripled it; still griping. Griping is fun.
8 TB ports is typical PCIe expansion for a desktop: 32 PCIe 4 lanes. Plus the GPU doesn't have to be fed on them so that's net +8 or +16. And with TB hubs, these can be fanned out at least as flexibly as typical slots.
To me it looks like there's a missing mass storage story... How will this evolve? Gangs of NVMe attached by TB? Or slots? Academic.
The case is first and foremost functional: it's well engineered. Biggest concerns are cooling and signal integrity, both are very well covered by Apple. Your BT prolly won't be dropping when your cores rev up.
But the matter most pertinent to these forums is: It's the end of the line people! Set your clocks. I predict macOS 15 will be the last to support Intel— Tho I have no priv info.
Boring in this cycle means they're competent. Good for Apple.
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