[kmeisthax]

I know the main reason why the Mac Pro has options for LRDIMMs for terabytes of RAM is specifically for audio production, where people are basically using their system memory as cache for their entire instrument library.

I have to wonder how Apple plans to replace the Mac Pro - the whole benefit of M1 is that gluing the memory to the chip (in a user-hostile way) provides significant performance benefits; but I don't see Apple actually engineering a 1TB+ RAM SKU or an Apple Silicon machine with socketed DRAM channels anytime soon.

[sharikous]

I wonder about that too.

My bet is that they will get rid of the Mac Pro entirely. Too low ROI for them at this point.

My hope is to see an ARM workstation where all components are standard and serviceable.

I cannot believe we are in the era of glued batteries and soldered SSDs that are guaranteed to fail and take the whole machine with them.

[halo37253]

I think we'd probably see apple use the fast and slow ram method that old computers used back in the 90's.

16-32GB of RAM on the SOC, with DRAM sockets for usage past the built in amount.

Though by the time we see an ARM MacPro they might move to stacked DRAM on the SOC. But i'd really think two tier memory system would be apple's method of choice.

I'd also expect a dual SOC setup.

So I don't expect to see that anytime soon.

I'd love to get my hands on a Mac Mini with the M1 Max.