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Massive RAM capacity.

How long...

Has it been or was it?

I'm not even sure.

I'll have to look up the stats in this.

Before there was ever a Mac that could contain as much GPU processing power as the 2019 Mac Pro, which I believe could hold four AMD GPUs, two dual cards in it.

it was it was so long before that was bested by any apple silicon things i have to look up the stats to see how close it is to being competitive with the m3 ultra which is the current mac gpu wasn't it like this year i think it was recent i have to look up with it but like the thing is like well what am i going to do with all those gpus what the hell is the point of that i can't play games on it there's no game that's going to run on four nvd four amd uh gpus again

What could I do with a box filled with GPUs in today's age?

I can think of some things you can do with it that aren't gaming, you know, and their whole relationship with NVIDIA and how they messed that up, as you noted, is the thing.

But like the 2019 Mac Pro, when it was released, had capabilities that were so far above any other Mac in terms of what it could do and what you could stuff inside it.

Because remember back then, you could put in...

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?