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Apple présente un MacBook Air, un Mac Studio mais surtout un nouveau Mac Pro
news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Monday, 5 June, 2023 - 17:24
Apple vient de présenter deux nouveaux modèles de Mac. Un MacBook Air "XXL" et une version 2.0 du Mac Studio.
Apple présente un MacBook Air, un Mac Studio mais surtout un nouveau Mac Pro
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This is the new Apple Silicon Mac Pro
news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Monday, 5 June, 2023 - 17:21 · 1 minute
The Apple Mac Pro. It's still the cheese grater design. [credit: Apple ]
CUPERTINO, Calif.—It has been three years since Apple began transitioning its Mac lineup away from Intel chips to its own silicon, and that project completes today with the last product to make the transition: the Mac Pro desktop tower.
The Mac Pro might not look different from its predecessor on the outside, but on the inside, Intel's Xeon CPU and AMD's Radeon Pro graphics are gone, and in their place we have a new chip, called the M2 Ultra. This is the same chip as the new Mac Studio, with a 24-core CPU, an up to 76-core GPU, and it starts with twice the memory and SSD storage of the old Mac Pro. Apple promises it will be "3x faster" than the Intel Mac Pro. Memory tops out at 192GB. These stats all match the new Mac Studio—the only thing you get from the bigger chassis is expansion capabilities and more ports.
The whole point of a Mac tower is support for traditional expansion cards, and normally that means discrete GPUs. Apple demoed some expansion cards, but none of them were graphics cards. It sounds like you'll be using the M2 Ultra's on-board GPU. Making real graphics cards work with an ARM chip would have been a massive undertaking—for starters, no ARM drivers exist. Even for the non-GPU options, compatibility is going to be an interesting problem. Apple calls out digital signal processing (DSP) cards, serial digital interface (SDI) I/O cards, and additional networking and storage as PCI express card possibilities.
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Apple reportedly prepping a pair of high-end Mac desktops ahead of WWDC
news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Thursday, 1 June, 2023 - 15:51 · 1 minute
Enlarge / Apple's Mac Studio desktop. (credit: Andrew Cunningham)
As Apple rumors go, the long-rumored 15-inch MacBook Air sounds almost certain to be announced at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference next week. But as Apple’s plans take shape, it also seems possible that we’ll see new Mac desktops featuring high-end M2 Max and M2 Ultra chips.
Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman believes that these new chips are most likely to power an updated range of Mac Studio desktops, a little over a year after the first Studios were initially introduced . As recently as a few months ago, Gurman speculated that the M2 generation would skip over the Mac Studio entirely and that Apple would instead opt to use the newer chips as a selling point for a new Apple Silicon Mac Pro.
But that version of reality may not come to pass. Gurman says these new Mac models have Mac14,3 and Mac14,4 model identifiers, while the Mac Pro that Apple is testing internally is identified as Mac14,8. (We initially thought these no-adjective model identifiers were a throwback to the PowerPC days , but the reality is more boring; Apple just isn’t using unique Mac names in model identifiers anymore, possibly to combat leaks and the speculation that arises when new IDs break cover.)
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Apple donne des indices sur le futur de ses Macs
news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Monday, 24 April, 2023 - 15:00
Trois identifiants de Macs inconnus ont fait leur apparition dans l'application "Localiser". De quoi alimenter de nouvelles rumeurs.
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Apple confirme l’arrivée d’un nouveau produit avec une puce M2
news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Thursday, 2 March, 2023 - 18:00
Le vice-président d'Apple Bob Borchers assure que la transition vers les puces Apple Silicon n'est pas encore terminée.
Apple confirme l’arrivée d’un nouveau produit avec une puce M2
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Apple could skip an M2 Mac Studio update to boost Apple Silicon Mac Pro
news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Monday, 6 February, 2023 - 20:42
Enlarge / Apple's Mac Studio desktop. (credit: Andrew Cunningham)
If rumors are to be believed, Apple has had to scale back its ambitions for the Apple Silicon Mac Pro. A planned performance-boosting "M2 Extreme" chip has allegedly been canceled, and some of the perks people normally associate with the Mac Pro—upgradeable RAM and graphics—likely won't be supported because of the way Apple Silicon chips are designed.
Which leaves us with, if the most recent rumors are accurate, a high-end Mac Studio with user-accessible storage slots stuffed into the current neo-cheese-grater Mac Pro tower design .
That doesn't leave a whole lot of space between the Mac Studio and the Mac Pro—little enough that the Mac Pro could have trouble justifying its continued existence and price premium. One possible solution, as reported by Bloomberg's Mark Gurman: Apple could simply skip an M2-generation refresh for the Mac Studio entirely, leaving more of a performance gap between the still-M1-based Studio models and an M2-based Mac Pro.
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Mac mini M2 : il fait mieux Mac Pro pour 10 fois plus cher
news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Thursday, 26 January, 2023 - 17:30
On savait qu’Apple avait frappé fort en annonçant un Mac mini M2 à 699 euros. En revanche, on ne s’attendait pas forcément à ce qu’il soit deux fois plus puissant qu’un Mac Pro… vendu 6 499 euros.
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It might be time for Apple to throw in the towel on the Mac Pro
news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Tuesday, 20 December, 2022 - 18:32
Enlarge / Apple's 2019 Mac Pro, a trypophobe's nightmare. (credit: Apple)
The Mac Pro is one of the few remaining Intel Macs with no Apple Silicon replacement ready to go, even though we're a little past the two-year deadline that CEO Tim Cook originally set for the transition back in the summer of 2020 (and to be fair, it has been a very hard-to-predict couple of years).
Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports that Apple continues to work on a new version of the Mac Pro , alongside other as-yet-unreplaced Intel Macs like the higher-end Mac mini and the 27-inch iMac, but that a planned "M2 Extreme" chip that would have powered the Apple Silicon Mac Pro has "likely" been canceled.
The Extreme would have strapped two M2 Ultra chips together, in the same way that the current M1 Ultra is a pair of interconnected M1 Max chips, but as of this writing Apple allegedly plans to ship the new Mac Pro with an M2 Ultra chip inside and focus on "easy expandability for additional memory, storage, and other components" to help the Mac Pro stand out from the existing Mac Studio .
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Apple a déjà tourné les plans de présentation de l’iPhone 14
news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Monday, 8 August, 2022 - 08:00
Apple aurait déjà tourné certaines séquences concernant sa vidéo de présentation du prochain iPhone qui devrait sortir en septembre.
Apple a déjà tourné les plans de présentation de l’iPhone 14
