Anyone know what exactly would be worth putting in the PCI slots that would make the Mac Pro worth it?
Also, do Apple employees at Apple Headquarters get fully-specced out Mac Pros at their desktops for their work?
Also, do Apple employees at Apple Headquarters get fully-specced out Mac Pros at their desktops for their work?
No GPU support, but the slide during the presentation showed extended storage (4-8xNVME to PCIe adapters are fairly inexpensive I think), SDI video ingestion, ProTools HDX cards (music I/O and DSP), 25GbE card, and I think a fiber channel one. Since then a third-party company announced a networked audio card.
Possibly some special-purpose accelerator cards; IIRC the first-party Afterburner cards on the last mac pro were FPGA-based; video acceleration is now built into the M2 chips.
I think most of the extra ports that differentiate a Mac Pro 2023 from a Mac Studio Ultra on the spec sheet are on a small PCIe card included with the machine that stays in the top slot.
Probably something like this $5000 Avid Pro Tools card https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1385850-REG/avid_9900...
I don't see why the Apple employees wood, most of the Apple silicon and mobo isn't really being used for coding and such
No coding happening at Apple. /s
b) No.