Marco Arment

They can make, it is possible with the current technology we've seen in the M5 Pro and Macs to make a chip that is too hot to fit in the Mac Studio.

Now, obviously, if they ship a chip in the Mac Studio, it's not going to be too hot to fit in the Mac Studio.

But they're also not going to plan and design and build the chip that would be too hot.

But they could.

You could make it bigger, faster, hotter.

Why would you make it bigger and hotter?

Because it will do more computation.

like it will be faster it will hot you could put more memory on it like you need a bigger case that can dissipate more heat just for the cpu gpu stuff in their current plans no slots no third-party gpus no expandable memory no none of that just basically something bigger than the mac studio and that is my argument maybe i'll write a post about it someday but probably not because i'm old and tired um

that you know the case for a true mac pro successor they did they made it the 2019 mac pro was amazing it fulfilled everything that it needed to fulfill but that was a different era in the current era there is still a place for a mac that is more powerful than the mac studio because the mac studio it's got its own little thermal corner and it has amazing capacity and it can cool basically the biggest chip apple could make with like the m3 ultra

But now I believe Apple has clearly the capability to make a chip that is more powerful but too hot to fit in the Mac Studio.

And where are they going to put that?

That's why I think I will still be lobbying for and dreaming and hoping for that Apple should make a Mac that has more cooling capacity than the Mac Studio so they can put a bigger chip in it that wouldn't fit in the Mac Studio.

I'll also separately believe that...

the role of slots is still potentially good or whatever, but that's, that's nebulous.

But the, the heat capacity thing is not nebulous.

That's, and that's, that's why the old M2 ultra Mac pro was so ridiculous because we know that chip fits in the studio.

You can buy it in the studio and yet they're putting it in this cavernous case with massive cooling.

It was just a complete waste.

Um, so fingers crossed for, let's say seven years from now, we'll, we'll report back here.

And see if Apple has made a bigger Mac than the Mac Studio.