> Maybe they'll change the form factor of the Mac Pro, too?
Either that or kill the Mac Pro altogether, the current iteration is such a half-assed design and blatantly terrible value compared to the Studio that it feels like an end-of-the-road product just meant to tide PCIe users over until they can migrate everything to Thunderbolt.
They recycled a design meant to accommodate multiple beefy GPUs even though GPUs are no longer supported, so most of the cooling and power delivery is vestigial. Plus the PCIe expansion was quietly downgraded, Apple Silicon doesn't have a ton of PCIe lanes so the slots are heavily oversubscribed with PCIe switches.
Either that or kill the Mac Pro altogether, the current iteration is such a half-assed design and blatantly terrible value compared to the Studio that it feels like an end-of-the-road product just meant to tide PCIe users over until they can migrate everything to Thunderbolt.
They recycled a design meant to accommodate multiple beefy GPUs even though GPUs are no longer supported, so most of the cooling and power delivery is vestigial. Plus the PCIe expansion was quietly downgraded, Apple Silicon doesn't have a ton of PCIe lanes so the slots are heavily oversubscribed with PCIe switches.