the Apple silicon Mac Pro is coming and I think it's coming next month at
Apple's March event because we just got the biggest leaks ever pointing to a
March event launch and this is going to be insane because we got even more leaks
of what is going to be packed into this thing and it's better than I could ever
imagine and I'm gonna explain why but first I've got to go through why I
thought this would be such a disappointing upgrade now first of all
Apple missed their two-year timeline which meant that the Mac Pro was
supposed to come in November of last year but they totally missed but now it
looks like it's coming next month now the reason why I thought it would be so
disappointing was that Mark gurman the most accurate Apple leaker out there
said that the new Mac Pro would look identical to the current model which was
kind of expected because it's easy for Apple to do just reuse the same chassis
however they said that it would lack expandable Ram yes the Mac Pro that's
supposed to be upgradable modular the most customizable Mac you can get is not
going to have user replaceable Ram so that is extremely disappointing it means
that the ram the memory is going to be on the actual SOC chip just like the
other Apple silicon Max now that Lee completely crushed my dreams because
imagine boo actually way back in March of last year he said that it would
actually be possible to have external RAM up to one terabyte and here's a
chart of how it could potentially work however he did say that the external
memory controller was very very slow in terms of access times even slower than
the older Xeon so the Apple memory team was working on a solution for that but
it looks like based on what Mark German said that failed they're not going to
have user replaceable Ram but then it got even worse on January 25th Mark
Goodman came out and said that the next Mac Pro o is also going to lack user
upgradable gpus in addition to non-upgradable Ram so basically you
would be stuck with whatever configuration you would have when you
buy it just like the Mac Studio the Mac Mini all the regular Apple silicon Macs
no upgrade ability in terms of the Ram or the graphics so essentially that
leaves the storage as the only user upgradable component in the new Mac Pro
which would be a massive fail it would basically be like a huge Max studio with
a bunch of PCI Express slots for audio cards whatever custom cards that people
would need professionals would need that is just so disappointing to not have
upgradable gpus or RAM and then we got this an absolute nuclear bomb of a leak
from nine to five Mac exclusive iOS 16.4 code references new compute module
device in the Mac Pro so basically the compute
module is a brand new device class that runs iOS or a variant of it and there
would be at least two of them which is the compute module 13 1 and 13 3. so in
two different models which to me kind of sounds like M2 Max and M2 Ultra so what
it basically sounds like is a custom Apple GPU that you slot in with an M2
Max ship with a bunch of GPU cores to improve your graphics performance but
there is a catch which kind of makes that not as good which I'll explain
later on in the video but the main takeaway from this leak is that it's
connected to iOS 16.4 now if you didn't already know Apple usually has a huge
mid-cycle software update that they release in the springtime so iOS Mac OS
basically all the main software is released in spring and many times it's
right after they have a March event and release new products that come with that
new software so this points to the Mac Pro coming in spring right after their
March event and adding further evidence to this idea Apple also filed a new Mac
devices running Bluetooth 5.3 amid the rumors of a new Macbook Air and Mac Pro
so everything is kind of lining up perfectly for this Mac Pro to launch and
also we just had the M2 Max and M2 Pro MacBook Pros launch back in January so
it would be perfect for the Mac Pro to launch in the spring but now getting
back to the whole compute module leak I think this could be even better than
just a GPU that you slot in and I actually have two different scenarios
scenario one is of course the slottable GPU card that you plug again for extra
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now getting back to the new leaked compute modules in the Mac Pro I want to
start off with that second awesome scenario and I want to refer to a tweet
from Jeff Benjamin which he posted at basically the same time actually a
little bit earlier than I did but here is a great idea let's say that you have
a new Apple silicon Mac Pro in the same 2019 Mac Pro case but with multiple
swappable brains yes the brain is basically like he said the system on
package no need for networking storage Etc on the actual brain card that way
you can have the fastest Mac Pro with every single upgrade each M series
iteration if you pay for a new module so essentially when the new map Pro comes
out you're gonna buy the new Apple silicon Mac Pro chassis and you're going
to be able to choose your module that plugs in so whether it's an M2 Max or an
M2 Ultra you choose it and it comes completely done now in the future let's
say a couple years down the road few years down the road a new M3 Ultra or M3
extreme M4 Ultra and four extreme comes out and you purchase the module by
itself then you're gonna take out your M2 module then plug in the new one and
there you go you just upgraded your entire system now the actual Mac Pro
itself or on the inside you're gonna have your power supply that remains
there the cooling system you're gonna have the main motherboard which is
actually not the main motherboard it's a daughter board or a secondary board
that's on the Mac Pro itself it's gonna house the upgradable storage and
everything else that you need with the PCI Express slots but the actual brain
of the machine is on the compu card itself so this idea is insane because
you're only buying the main chassis once and you upgrade the brains that is the
most modular machine that you can get and professionals are gonna love this
now this idea basically has a potential to make the Mac Pro upgradeable and
Timeless with apple silicon and that would be a game changer in the industry
now I know you're probably going to say that that sounds nuts it's insane
there's no way they can fit it well if you look at the current Mac Pro and how
large the current GPU models are they are absolutely massive and I would go as
far as to say that these Mac Pro GPU cards that are available right now are
larger in volume than the actual Mac Studio and the entire Mac Studio which
includes the motherboard the ssds the huge cooling fan all of of that stuff is
smaller than these current Mac Pro cards now the cool thing is that if you don't
need a lot of Graphics you can instead buy a compute module that's focused on
having maximized CPU performance without all of the GPU upgrades and cores that
you don't need now I know some of you gonna say that this is not like apple
they're not going to allow you to go the cheap route by just upgrading the brains
itself they want you to buy the whole computer and yes Apple can actually do
this as well because if Apple wants to sell more of the Mac Pro chassis then
when the time comes they could just release a new chassis that has certain
upgrades like let's say a new more efficient better power supply or better
fans maybe a new black color in terms of the Finish or maybe some new extra ports
on the chassis itself or better yet let's say the new chassis supports
Thunderbolt 5 on those case ports and you want them so that's why people would
be buying the new chassis upgrades as well because otherwise you're not going
to be able to take advantage of Thunderbolt 5 on those case ports now to
me all of that sounds absolutely amazing you're getting a fully upgradable Mac
Pro chassis with brains that you keep swapping out but there's somebody else
hishnash on Twitter that completely disagrees because he says that these
compute modules are running iOS 16.4 which means that they're very similar to
the studio display which has an iPhone chip built in running iOS kind of for
all of the connection and Main thinking that the display has to do to perform as
good as it does it handles all of that so he is saying that the Mac Pro compute
modules will actually just have the regular M2 Ultra or M2 Max or whatever
they call it and kind of an assistant iOS chip running some kind of version or
kernel of iOS and that of course brings us to the other scenario where these
compute modules are simply additional custom apple gpus with some kind of
other chip name now of course I didn't think this would happen because when
you're slotting in an additional card it's not fully taking advantage of
unified memory because you're going to have your M2 Ultra chip on the main
motherboard and then a separate card so everything is not happening within the
same package so you're losing efficiency but it could still happen for the tasks
that really need heavy raw GPU performance like 3D rendering in blender
for example but if Apple does this it would make it really easy for people to
purchase an additional one or two custom GPU cards to slot in and get a huge
boost in terms of graphics performance and with that said it would also make it
extremely expensive like Hachi the otter says here we're gonna have a 55 000
Apple silicon machine no problem hishnash even thinks it might even be
80k by adding a bunch of these compute modules inside of the Mac Pro and then
making it even more likely Benjamin on Twitter said that the Mac Pro with pcle
GPU is confirmed according to a new patent which he showed right here
apparently this shows that apple is working on getting these GPU module
cards working with an apple silicon Mac so with that said those were the two
scenarios with the whole brains compute module upgradeable everything packed in
so that's that so with that said those were the two scenarios the first one
very simple just custom Apple GPU card that slots in or the second one where
the entire brains is on the card itself running the Mac Pro easy to upgrade let
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