Macworld on Apple Silicon Mac Pro

Jason Snell at Macworld has an article, Forget Everything you know about the Mac Pro which is speculation on Apple Silicon.

Of course we know some, like a bigger version of the M1 Max with more cores and more graphics cores and more memory.

And of course that means a smaller box than the current Intel Mac Pro.

And of course less expansion, because it is unlikely to have PCI slots especially since it doesn’t need an afterburner since it is built into the processor now, and only thunderbolt for expansion.

So really we are not saying anything new here. And sure it is all speculation.

I personally hope for more storage options. It would be great to have at least 2 banks of raided SSD’s, as I am sure there won’t be any room for spinning hard disks (though I would love a bank of 4, but am sure that will need external needs).

Honestly the New MacPro will likely be pretty damn small, but with some fans to cool the processors down for better performance.

Chance Miller at 9to5Mac is reporting that TSMC will begin pilot production of 3nm chips in 4th Quarter 2022

Chance Miller is saying that TSMC begins pilot program of 3nm chips, could be used in 2023 iPhones and Macs.

This will be huge for Macs if it happens, because this means more efficiency for the same power wattage and more efficiency, and though it won’t be till 2023, it could be major for the new Pro Macs with smaller chips making less heat, since the likely multiples of the M1 Max and M1 Pro will certainly create more heat.

The new M1 Pro and M1 Max are what is running the new MacBook Pro 14′ and 16′ as serious editing, color correction and Graphics machine

Apple has announced new M1 based MacBook Pro in 14″ and 16″ with the new M1 Pro and M1 Max chips.

And the rumors were right there is a damn divot for the camera just like the iPhone and iPad.

These are much more pro machines, with a much more pro price. And you had better pay for as much as you can as you will not be upgrading anything after you purchase the machine.

For $1999.00 you get an 14″ with 512 SSD 8 Core CPU, 14 Core CPU and 16GB of memory. It is an additional $400 to move to 32 GB of Memory, and $200 to move to a 10 core CPU, 14 core GPU, or $300 for 10 core cpu, 16 core gpU, $500 to movew to the mac with 10 core CPU and 24 core GPU, or $700 for Max with 10 Core CPU and 32 Core GPU.

Or for $2499 you get the 10 Core CPU, 16 Core GPU and 1 TB SSD with 16 GB of memory, which makes a $200 upgrade to M1 Mac with 24 core GPY or $400 for the Max 32 Core GPU, with the same $400 to go to 32 Gigs gigs of memory.

The 16″ starts at $2499 with 10 core CPU, 16 Core GPU, 16GB of memory and 512 ssd, then $2699 for the Same with 1TB hard drive or $3499 with MAX 10 Core CPU and 32 Core GPU with 32 GB memory and 1 TB SSD, this top model can hace 64 GB of memory for $400 additional, and SSD’s are $400 for 2tb, $1000 for 4tB and an eye watering $22000 for 8TB. So for a top of the line with 2TB SSD and 64 GB of RAM you are talking $4299.00.

Damn I would love to play with one of these and see how well this thing edits, it sounds like the first pro machine that could really handle some high end editing, graphics and color correct. And it gives me hope for the non-portable high end machines.

I do this means when the M2 Pro and Max chips come out, hopefully they will include a 128 RAM version, and have at least 64 cores for video, but maybe even 128. Sure it will be a 10,000 machine at least, but with that and probably 4 cores for ProRES Playback we are talking some serious editing machines!

Engadget is reporting that Apple’s M2 Processor has entered production and could arrive by July

Engadget has the news, and that it will again be SOC or system on chip, so integrated CPU, GPU and AI processor.

I am still hoping for eventual external gpu and memory for system and gpu, but that could be unlikely, but hopefully this will at least have support for more than 16GB of Combined RAM and a better GPU.

I hate having Mac’s future so up in the air again. At least with Intel we had a roadmap. Now we will will never know what is coming. And the pro machines won’t cone until the end of the 2 years and I will likely be disappointed with the results, at least at first.