Why does it need expansion slots? Is that still a thing? :-)
Drive bays, yeah. Maybe some approach towards coprocessor boards.
But none of this new direction shrieks out "install your own graphics card" anymore.
Drive bays, yeah. Maybe some approach towards coprocessor boards.
But none of this new direction shrieks out "install your own graphics card" anymore.
A friend told me last night that he thinks there's really a lot of generic resistance to the idea of using thunderbolt in this way, and that is what makes the Mac Pro necessary.
Reading more replies I think it's also clear that people still question Apple's GPU claims, and maybe there is more of a market for whatever-PCI-bus GPU cards.
Moreover I think if you look at the Mac Studio, it is difficult to imagine Apple thinking that a straightforward M1/M2 cheese grater is a remotely satisfactory product design.
But I've been told enough times that I am wrong, (albeit by people who were blown away by a keynote -- am I just old?) that I'm cheerfully willing to admit that I probably will be.