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Apple discontinues Mac Pro after 20 years — system had been in stuck in stasis with M2 Ultra since 2023 (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 4 months ago by [M] to c/hardware@lemmy.world
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Apple's iconic tower is gone, succeeded by the Mac Studio.

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[–] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Remember when processors on Apple machines were upgradable, and not soldered to the logic board?

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I 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.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago*

    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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