RetroFed
Called it months ago.
DFX4509BSo, I called it four months ago, but the Mac Pro is officially dead.
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Remember when processors on Apple machines were upgradable, and not soldered to the logic board?
artyomI remember, yes.
I never owned one, no. And I’ve owned only Macs since 2003.
Plus an eMate in 1998. Wasn’t with a socketed chip.
Not really sure why it would improve anything. Changing the chip usually meant sticking with the old, slow bus. Which meant the RAM was slow, too.
I did upgrade to more RAM and SSD every chance I got, though. Apple’s RAM upgrade surcharges are ridiculous. Ditto storage.
It would cut down on ewaste and planned obsolescence. I remember upgrading ram, video cards, and processors on many a Mac before they started soldering everything down. Got a lot of life out of my PowerPC and Intel Macs.
I guess? I don’t know. Seems like everything is advancing rapidly, hardware-wise. So when something is long in the tooth, replacing one component doesn’t get you very far. And sockets and slots have performance and cost and space compromises I don’t want to make.
And old systems are still useful.
I tend to own things until they’re completely unusable as intended (5-10 years), then find a second-tier use for them (eg linux server). Then recycle them when even that is untenable.
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Is this the second or third time the Mac Pro has officially died?
I honestly thought it was already dead in like 2010??
That was the trash can; they brought back a modified cheese grater with the M1 chip.
It’s gone for good now, fully replaced by the Mac Studio.
I miss the XServe.
I miss osx server and the rackmount.
I miss those powermac cases with doors. Those were peak.
hasn’t been updated in years. maybe at all? not a big surprise.
Gotta find something else to grate your cheese.
Perhaps the best looking Mac ever made (IMO) but doesn’t make much sense with how apple does things these days. Just wish I could get a PC case that looks like that.
They’ll be on ebay for cheap once the hardware is obsolete
With the increase in thunderbolt capacity and the lack of gpu cards there wasn’t a lot of use for the pci- slots in 2026.
The new Mac studios really filled the needs for many that the Mac Pro targeted.
Even PCs are leaning in that direction now, eg. with Strix Halo’s IGP legitimately beating some mid-range GPUs.
This was a pro machine, so you’d be expecting only high end GPU’s to be slotted. However it won’t matter without drivers.
Great looking case though. These are gonna make some cool projects in 5-10 years