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CTOnews.com, January 16, the long waiting time for Apple Silicon chips, the birth of the Mac Studio product line, and an insincere upgrade have worn away consumers' patience with Apple's Mac Pro. Foreign technology media MacWorld even speculated that Apple would sell less than 1000 Mac Pro units in 2022.

Apple updated its Mac Pro product line in 2006, 2013 and 2019, respectively, and a large number of loyal fans are willing to pay $5999 or more for "Mac products that require the ultimate CPU performance."

The upcoming Mac Pro product line is at the top of the Mac performance pyramid, but the performance improvement may not be as impressive as it used to be.

After M1 Ultra brought amazing 20-core CPU and 64-core GPU to Mac Studio, it was reported that the upcoming M2 Extreme will bring 48 CPU cores and 152 graphical cores to Mac Pro. Its performance is more than twice that of the previous generation.

But Bloomberg's Mark Gurman says Apple has removed the workstation-level "Extreme" chip and will use a slightly enhanced Ultra processor.

Mr Goolman said Apple would equip the new Mac Pro with M2 Ultra chips, 24-core CPU and 76-core GPU, with the same design as the current model and the same "slots" for storage, graphics, media and network cards.

Scaling is very important for Mac Pro. Through the 40Gb / s transmission speed of the Thunderbolt port, users can choose to extend the way to further improve performance. In addition, users will not be able to upgrade their memory.

The source said that Apple may adjust the appearance of the Mac Pro, due to the lack of performance upgrades, Apple hopes to use a new look to attract consumers to buy.

MacWorld also believes that there is a problem with Apple's Mac Pro product line development strategy. The purpose of Apple's Mac Studio is to fill the market gap between Mac Mini and Mac Pro and cover the user base more accurately.

If Mac Pro can bring a major breakthrough in performance for consumers, equipped with a new processor, a new shape design, will certainly be able to bring greater market appeal. But according to the information we have so far, the upgrade of Apple's new Mac Pro is small, so why should consumers choose Mac Pro?

Netizens of CTOnews.com, if the price of the new Apple Silicon Mac Pro remains the same, the starting price of the National Bank Tower is 47999 yuan, and the rack price is 51999 yuan, but the performance is only 30% faster than the Mac Studio. Currently, the starting price of M1 Max Mac Studio Bank is 14999 yuan, and the starting price of M1 Ultra Mac Studio Bank is 29999 yuan. Will you spend nearly 20,000 yuan extra to choose a larger chassis and this performance improvement?

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