Marco Arment

The rumor we had was that there was no plans for a larger chip than the Ultra until at least the M7 generation.

But that was a vague rumor and it was a long time ago.

So I'm not holding my breath for that.

But yeah.

RIP Mac Pro.

It was already dead in all but name.

Now it is dead dead.

It is clarifying for purchasers.

It is clarifying for me.

And yet...

that still remains the one glaring failure.

Not maybe glaring, glaring to me.

The one glaring to me failure of Apple Silicon is they could not figure out how to make a replacement for the biggest, fastest, hottest chip that would require a big case to cool.

They tried, they failed.

It's not a big deal to anyone except for me, but I still think they should shoot for that star.

I mean, obviously gaming.

I mean, I know people don't care about that.

And Apple's gaming performance is amazing, but gaming will also use all the transistors you can throw at it.

Like, you know, well, the frame rate is good, but could it be better?

Yes, it can always just, especially GPUs, they're so embarrassingly parallel and everything.