New Mac Pro coming soon?

[Andrew Kimery]

My guess is that it’ll look like a big MacMini on the outside and have the iMac Pro guts on the inside. It’ll have more ThB 3 USB-C ports (and busses) and maybe come in a dual CPU flavor. I don’t see Apple giving internal expansion so everything (GPUs, storage, I/O cards, fiber, etc.,) will happen via ThB 3.

[Walter Soyka]

Intel is doing some interesting work around modularity. I wonder if the next Mac Pro will use a technology like this?

https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/28/18643379/intel-nuc-compute-element-announcement-modular-upgrade-kiosk-laptop

https://www.pcmag.com/news/368658/a-new-approach-to-modular-pc-parts-hands-on-with-intels-nu

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[Michael Gissing]

While you wait NVIDIA is releasing laptops with huge graphics grunt, quoting 7 times the performance of a MacBook Pro

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2019/05/28/rtx-studio-laptops/

[Brett Sherman]

[Andrew Kimery] “My guess is that it’ll look like a big MacMini on the outside and have the iMac Pro guts on the inside. It’ll have more ThB 3 USB-C ports (and busses) and maybe come in a dual CPU flavor. I don’t see Apple giving internal expansion so everything (GPUs, storage, I/O cards, fiber, etc.,) will happen via ThB 3.”

I think there’s a possibility it will have multiple slots for NVMe PCIe storage. And a slot for GPU. But that’s about it I think. I doubt it will have a bunch of PCIe slots for all manner of cards. And quite frankly I agree with that approach. There’s no reason for I/O you can’t use TB3.

Also the value of upgrading a CPU is pretty limited. It’s just not developing at the pace it once was.