The manufacturer would prepare a new version of its professional computer, the last of the range not to have yet switched to Apple Silicon processors.
Will the Mac Pro finally accommodate an M2 processor? The answer is yes, and Apple is said to be hard at work designing this new model.
Apple is late, and the Mac Pro is the latest Intel-based Mac
During the presentation of the first M1 chip in June 2020, Apple CEO Tim Cook announced that his group was giving itself 2 years to transition the entire Mac range to processors. Apple Silicon. The schedule was not kept.
If all the MacBooks as well as the iMac or the Mac mini have taken the plunge by hosting M1 and then M2 processors, the Mac Pro is still equipped with Intel processors today. The latest model, presented in June 2019, has not evolved since that day, apart from a few technical updates and the adoption of newer processors.
If the brand’s fans began to despair, the journalist of Bloomberg Mark Gurman gives us news today of this first Apple Silicon Mac Pro.
A much more efficient Mac Pro, but also much more closed
Did you like the design of this tower, with its multiple vents at the front of the case that some quickly compared to a cheese grater? Rest assured, Apple does not intend to change anything in the design of its computer.
The 2019 Mac Pro had been praised for its expandability, an improvement over the rest of Apple’s very closed lineup. This would obviously not be the case with this next model. The RAM would not be modifiable, as well as the GPU. macOS nevertheless offered the possibility of adding an external GPU to Intel-based Macs, but Apple chips do not allow it, and buyers will have to make do with the configurations, we suspect very expensive, offered by the brand at launch. . Only the storage would be expandable by the user, by opening the device.
The proposed GPU should still be beefy, with up to 76 dedicated cores for the most intensive uses in the field of video, software development or 3D. It is not yet known whether Apple will turn to an M1 Ultra processor, which already equips the Mac Studio introduced in 2022, or a possible M2 Ultra even more powerful and whose higher performance would be made possible by better general ventilation of the computer. .
We will have to wait a few more months to see this next Mac Pro appear.
Source : Mark Gurman on Twitter
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