#APPLE MAC PRO 2012 SPECS UPDATE#

The unified memory is a big part of what makes the M1 Macs so fast, but tying the memory to the chip would drive up the purchase price significantly. The users who want such a machine demand customization options that MacBook and Mac mini users don’t necessarily need, so it’s possible that Apple offers slots like the Macs of old.īut more likely is a dramatic rethinking of what a Pro desktop is. We don’t know if Apple will take a similar approach with the Mac Pro, however. The RAM isn’t just soldered onto the motherboard on the M1 MacBook and iMac-it’s built directly into the chip, making it faster and more efficient. The current Intel Mac Pro offers up to 1.5TB of DDR4 ECC memory in 12 user-accessible DIMM slots, but the unified memory in the M1 Macs is quite different.

Nor do we know how long Apple will continue to sell non-Apple silicon Macs. The Intel-based Mac Pro models will continue to use AMD graphics, but no reports have surfaced that cover what possible upgrades are in store if any. The graphics could have 64 or 128 processing cores-that’s a huge increase from the eight graphics cores in Apple’s M1 SoC used in the Mac mini, 24-inch iMac, MacBook Air, and 13-inch MacBook Pro. The Apple silicon Mac Pro will use the graphics on the SoC instead of graphics cards by AMD, according to Gurman.

#APPLE MAC PRO 2012 SPECS UPDATE#

Yuuki_ans has tweeted accurate leaks in the past but does not provide information on how this Mac Pro fits in with Apple’s silicon strategy.Īfter Brendan Shanks on Twitter spotted references to Intel’s Ice Lake processors in the Xcode 13 beta, Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman confirmed that “Apple has indeed been working on an update to the Intel Mac Pro.” We assume that would be a model with the existing design but a faster processor and possibly update graphics. According to yuuki_ans on Twitter, Apple could release a Mac Pro that uses Intel Ice Lake Xeon W-3300 workstation processors in 2022.

Apple mac pro 2012 specs