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by bigyabai 31 days ago
The audience for Mac Pro buyers is almost nothing, full stop. It failed to find a niche, and now Apple is getting rid of it: https://www.macrumors.com/2026/03/26/apple-discontinues-mac-...

Part of the reason the new Mac Pro failed to find an audience can definitely be blamed on macOS' hostility to third party hardware. Who knows what Apple would be worth if they beat Nvidia's Grace CPU to the datacenter market. It was certainly their opportunity.
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pjmlp 31 days ago
Yes, because they already moved on to workstations powered by either Windows or Red-Hat Linux/Ubuntu.

The only ones left were people like John Siracusa that still hoped to the very last minute, that Apple would change their mind.

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brcmthrowaway 31 days ago
True, they could do any number of things. But a datacenter play would appear quite random to investors and their core audience. Broadcom + Nvidia however...
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trollbridge 31 days ago
Apple seems to be content to sell shovels in the AI gold rush.

Admittedly… what’s on my desk? A MacBook M4 Air, a Mac Studio, and there’s an x86 iMac in the corner.

What goes in the travel bag? A MacBook Pro or the Air.

Every time I look at buying something else the math doesn’t add up.

The 5090 sits in a commodity PC chassis. It’s not like I need a model running on my own computer.

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