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you know graphics cards you could buy them from apple you can put in third-party ones you could expand the storage you could expand the ram all inside the big giant tower case like it fulfilled the promise of that and again listen to the episode of the last detail here we uh talk about how i love the design of this thing and yeah it did go up market from the 2018 but 2018 was was in an era when power users would buy desktops and by 2019 we were no longer an era where power users were even interested in desktops it was more of like a home thing so who

Who is going to be interested in an ultra powerful thing like this?

People for whom a $6,000 starting price is not a big deal, right?

That's the market they were going after in the 2019 Mac Pro hit it.

And then we were just off into the wilderness.

And how long will it be before at this rate?

How long will it be before any Mac can hold 1.5 terabytes of RAM?

And again, I know it's faster RAM these days, yada, yada, but like.

How long will it be before you can add as much GPU capability relative to its time?

Like in 2019, the amount of GPU you could fit in here, scale that linearly with today's standards.

what apple is doing with the gpus is amazing but it is non-expandable and you cannot like you know how many watts of heat of gpus could you put inside this if you have that many watts of heat in a mac today just think of the gpus the apple designed first party gpu you could put in there if you had a case that could dissipate it and a gpu that was designed to be in that case they could dissipate it so i will defend 2019 mac pro forever i love the 28 2008 mac pro it's

I used it for a decade.

I loved that computer.

It was amazing, but it was from a different time.

The 2019 Mac Pro fulfilled the promise that Apple made in the 2017 Mac Roundtable.

It just got run over by Apple Silicon.

It is what it is.

I wouldn't want Apple Silicon to have been delayed for the honor of the 2019 Mac Pro, but

They released what they said they were going to do, and they did a really, really good job of it.

And then we're back in the wilderness.