

Constant bugs, requires way too much screen touching to get anything done. I simply don't understand how Apple can allow such a disappointing finale to an otherwise outstanding symphony.īought the iPhone 13…worse iPhone in years. Their negligence threatens to sour the entire experience. People who appear not to value customer experience or worry about tarnishing the brand's reputation. It baffles me that Apple would delegate this crucial step to individuals who seem indifferent to the hard work and dedication poured into the process by everyone else. How can a company like Apple entrust the final stage of this intricate process to delivery personnel who lack the same care and commitment? To someone who erroneously delivers your brand-new laptop to a different part of the city, and then charges you $40 to rectify their mistake?

However, there's something that deeply confounds me. It's truly astounding how they convert raw silicon and aluminum into something as refined as a MacBook. The individuals extracting silicon, the engineers designing hardware, the designers crafting my user experience, and the developers creating the extraordinary operating system - they all do an incredible job. I love their hardware, I love their software, and respect the people who make it all come together. It's up for preorder today on the Apple Store and will ship on June 13.I must say, I have a profound admiration for Apple and its accomplishments. It's available in both tower and rack-mount form factors. The tower also supports Wi-Fi 6e and Bluetooth 5.3. The new Mac Pro has no hard-wired back panel, and every one of those back ports (six Thunderbolt, three HDMI, two USB, and one headphone) lives on the one included PCI Express card. There are three USB-A ports (one top, two back), two HDMI ports that support 8K resolution and up to 240 Hz frame rates, two 10Gb Ethernet ports, and a headphone jack (!).

The new Mac Pro comes with eight Thunderbolt 4 ports-six on the back and two on the top-and seven total (six open) PCI Express Gen 4 slots. 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. Even for the non-GPU options, compatibility will be an interesting problem. Making real graphics cards work with an ARM chip would have been a massive undertaking-for starters, no ARM drivers exist. It sounds like you'll be using the M2 Ultra's on-board GPU. Apple demoed some expansion cards, but none of them were graphics cards. The whole point of a Mac tower is support for traditional expansion cards, and that normally means discrete GPUs. (Ars Technica may earn compensation for sales from links on this post through affiliate programs.)
