And are you surprised? After all, Macs have their own bespoke GPUs now, and RAM is on-die. (Glad I sprang for the 16GB option on my M1 Air — that has greatly lengthened its useful service life.) If Apple isn't shipping computers with DIMM slots anymore, then why would they ship PCIe slots for anything else? It wasn't like there were many options you could put in the last iteration anyway, because it too had a non-upgradeable GPU and fixed RAM. Okay, okay, you could stick a whole bunch of NVMe sticks in it and it had good cooling. Was that worth it?
This marks the end of the venerable tower Macs that we loved in the PowerPC days. The Mac Studio is the new Mac Pro. We were always at war with Eastasia.
I always still enjoy checking your blog and seeing your comments. I came today to see your thoughts on Firefox's use of AI to find and correct 271 bugs. I too will miss the Tower Form factor of Apple products especially the PPC era. My G5 Quad with 2 30'' Cinema Displays still works perfect everyday - no issues. Hope your well thanks for your contributions over the years keeping TenFourFox alive and running.
ReplyDeleteHey, thanks! My Quad is still doing well for the tasks I still use it for (mostly classic software, Photoshop, etc.).
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