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I'll be curious when we can expect a Mac Pro Tower on apple silicon. I know one person whose high-end music studio revolves around his tower and low latency multi-channel audio cards. He's starting to have concern they will be abandoned.

For apple it's a small niche.

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Is it really a small niche though? Many 'HPC'-ish creative workloads demand freedom of expand-ability in those ways it seems. I'm hopeful we'll see an Apple Silicon-based Pro that does offers PCI-e expandability amongst others. The Studio simply won't be sufficient for everyone.

I do not see their sales numbers, but based upon their actions it's pretty clear where their top sellers are.

That and Apple has a notable history of dropping standards they no longer feel are current to push new standards. Even if those changes very clearly abandon current and active users.

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