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0 pointsAurornis1mo ago0 comments

> I still believe the lack of NVIDIA GPU support in the Mac Pro will go down as one of the greatest missed opportunities in tech.

I don’t know about that. Apple supported some full size GPUs in past product lines and the number of users was very small. Granted, LLMs change that demand but the audience for Mac Pro buyers who would use a full-size GPU that is impossible to obtain is almost nothing compared to their laptop sales.

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bigyabai1mo ago· 3 in thread

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.

pjmlp1mo 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.

brcmthrowaway1mo 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...

trollbridge1mo 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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