Circles within circles; Apple to separate CPU from GPU

I should stop being amazed at how tech (and life generally) often moves as a series of smaller circles within larger circles and how what was old is new once more, but when I read this it did make me chuckle a bit...

In a departure from previous designs, Apple is expected to separate the CPU and GPU in the M5 Pro, Max, and Ultra chips to improve production yields and thermal performance.

Maybe there will be a practical use for that Mac Pro chassis after all...

In reply to a post by Pheasant:

Maybe there will be a practical use for that Mac Pro chassis after all...

The Studio may end up more limited than the Mac Pro.

Interesting.

Not that i am on the look out for a new Mac, I have spent enough money over the last couple of years, Mac, Printer and other stuff .

But I will look at this closely, thank you for the info.
I know someone who may be interested, she has been planning to update her trash can Mac for a while.

To my mind the present M2 Mac Pro is completely pointless as against the present M2 Mac Studio, given you could fit 12 Studios into the same space as a single Mac Pro 😂

Good to know (or at least have some inkling) of what’s coming down the pipe.

Tell your mate that Trash Can Mac is practically internet folklore around these parts. Feel like it’s an old friend of mine by now 😜

Edited by Pheasant (Thu 02-Jan-25 09:11:24)

In reply to a post by Pheasant:

Good to know (or at least have some inkling) of what’s coming down the pipe.

Tell your mate that Trash Can Mac is practically internet folklore around these parts. Feel like it’s an old friend of mine by now 😜

It is still working well, but is a few years old and have done a lot of work over the years. This is the longest she has gone without buying a new mac. She is not a fan of the newer macOS versions, I am pretty sure she still has the original Os on it or one above it.
When did macOS started becoming more like a mobile OS?


The problem is now, if she wants to update to another Mac, she has little choice and she is never going to change to Windows ,

But this new M5 may be worth her waiting for, but then again, maybe not.

In reply to a post by zyborg47:

When did macOS started becoming more like a mobile OS?

Many people I know hate the way the Mac has copied the iPad. I guess Apple feel they can sell more Macs to people whom already know their mobile products. It has made the Mac more a "consumer product" but in the same way the annual major upgrade of macOS has introduced unreliability.

The problem is now, if she wants to update to another Mac, she has little choice and she is never going to change to Windows ,

Never say never, on the right hardware Windows is now quite competitive. As the ARM architecture from Qualcomm gains ground (for laptops) things will be very interesting.

But this new M5 may be worth her waiting for, but then again, maybe not.

There is always a new chip, any time you look, something coming.

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In reply to a post by zyborg47:

When did macOS started becoming more like a mobile OS?

Many people I know hate the way the Mac has copied the iPad. I guess Apple feel they can sell more Macs to people whom already know their mobile products. It has made the Mac more a "consumer product" but in the same way the annual major upgrade of macOS has introduced unreliability.

The problem is now, if she wants to update to another Mac, she has little choice and she is never going to change to Windows ,

Never say never, on the right hardware Windows is now quite competitive. As the ARM architecture from Qualcomm gains ground (for laptops) things will be very interesting.

But this new M5 may be worth her waiting for, but then again, maybe not.

There is always a new chip, any time you look, something coming.

24H2 is wonderful, in that respect too (just to be balanced) 😎

Another fail...

A New Year's gift from Microsoft: Surprise, your scanners don't work

[I much prefer the Xmas surprise that Openreach gave me personally 🤣]

In reply to a post by Pheasant:

24H2 is wonderful, in that respect too (just to be balanced) 😎

I've got issues with enterprise Linux on servers; none of these OSes is perfect!

[I much prefer the Xmas surprise that Openreach gave me personally 🤣]

USB/Ethernet scanning has always been a nightmare. I've used VueScan (awesome bit of third party software) to get old USB scanners working, but my employer gave up and all the MFD units scan to a PDF and send via email.

In reply to a post by jchamier:

Many people I know hate the way the Mac has copied the iPad. I guess Apple feel they can sell more Macs to people whom already know their mobile products. It has made the Mac more a "consumer product" but in the same way the annual major upgrade of macOS has introduced unreliability.

I did not know any difference really, I only used Mac Os for doing some things, never really used the OS much.

But I can understand what she means, it was the same when we went from Windows 7 to 10 and more so to 11.

As for reliability, my Mac have been very reliable

Never say never, on the right hardware Windows is now quite competitive. As the ARM architecture from Qualcomm gains ground (for laptops) things will be very interesting.

It may be interesting, but believe me, she will never have a Windows machine. She only had one and and that was Xp and she said she would never have another one.
she have always been a Apple person, computer wise anyway, going back to G3 and G4 macs.
She still has a few.

There is always a new chip, any time you look, something coming.

True, i thought it was slowing down a bit PC wise, a newer PC is not a lot of different to a PC of around 5 years old.
Arm is a different thing.
Still got to think about updating my gaming machine, but not going crazy and in no rush, it is still working.

i done spending now for a while, hardware wise, with the printer and Cricut.