Apple Reportedly Planning at Least One More Mac Pro with Intel Processors

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Despite its decision of transitioning the MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and other popular Mac products to in-house M1 silicon, Apple’s relationship with Intel hasn’t entirely been severed yet.



That’s according to a story shared by MacRumors, which discussed reports claiming that Apple is still planning to release at least one more Mac that will leverage Intel processors. Not surprisingly, that would be the Mac Pro, Apple’s cheese-grater-like workstation/server series that traditionally leverages powerful chips such as the Xeon to meet the demands of artists, designers, and other professionals.



“[…] there are reasons even beyond performance that are likely influencing Apple’s decision,” MacRumors theorized. “Apple silicon chips run on an entirely different architecture than Intel-based Macs. On Apple silicon Macs, Apple uses Rosetta 2 to automatically...

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[Burticus]

I guess someone at Apple decided they still like money. They can charge whatever they want for these cheese grater Xeon's and people will snap them up.

 

[Brian_B]

I guess someone at Apple decided they still like money. They can charge whatever they want for these cheese grater Xeon's and people will snap them up.

These aren't high volume parts. Yeah, the margin on them is insane, but they don't sell a lot of them, so it isn't a huge profit center for Apple. They have to be functional though - and that's all part of the marketing angle: Apple is for creators. They probably sell more "other" Apple devices based on the notion that these machines even exist.

 

[Nanobot]

This will give software devs more time to fine tune new versions of their apps for Apple silicon.

 

[Uvilla]

Local computer power, in fact local OS will soon matter little as ' creator' tools move to the cloud to be paid monthly anyway. All you will need is shiny boxes, and a religious selling of it. Apple is 99 percent of the way there already.

 

[LazyGamer]

This will give software devs more time to fine tune new versions of their apps for Apple silicon.

Just a bet: the new Mac Pros will have some kind of M1 silicon as a 'co-processor'. 50/50 on it actually being a decent integration

 

[Nanobot]

Just a bet: the new Mac Pros will have some kind of M1 silicon as a 'co-processor'. 50/50 on it actually being a decent integration

Why would they bother with doing that when they clearly plan to drop Intel completely? If they did they would be admitting they need Intel for performance on some level. I don’t see that happening.

 

[LazyGamer]

My guess would be hardware native support for... something.