When Daring Fireball’s John Gruber sat down with Apple’s software program engineering chief Craig Federighi, {hardware} engineering chief John Ternus, AR/VR chief Mike Rockwell, and advertising and marketing chief Greg Joswiak to debate the bulletins at WWDC 2023, an intriguing titbit in regards to the Mac Professional 2023 emerged.

MacRumors famous that John Termus defined why Apple has no plans to incorporate help for both exterior GPU or a video card.

“Basically, we have constructed our structure round this shared reminiscence mannequin and that optimization, and so it isn’t totally clear to me the way you’d usher in one other GPU and achieve this in a means that’s optimized for our techniques,” Ternus informed Gruber. “It hasn’t been a route that we needed to pursue.”

In different phrases, don’t anticipate help for GPU on Apple Silicon for the foreseeable future, one thing that’s more likely to irk anybody that was planning to make use of Nvidia card and CUDA for ML (Machine Studying) coaching for instance. It’s exhausting to not see Apple’s veiled try at slowly killing the Mac Professional, pushing it into deliberate obsolescence, the identical path taken, a very long time in the past by the Xserve, Apple’s devoted server vary.

As I discussed in my latest opinion in regards to the Mac Professional, Apple proudly sacrificed its $2,000 accelerator card when it introduced that Now each Mac Professional has the efficiency of not only one however seven Afterburner playing cards in-built. Why would you purchase $14,000 price of {hardware} when a $3,999 workstation can do the identical job? (ed: One factor for positive is that the Mac Studio is more likely to be probably the greatest workstations round)

What about reminiscence? 

Neither Termus not anybody in attendance on June 7 spoke in regards to the different massive restriction Mac Professional customers face; the utmost quantity of shared, non-upgradable reminiscence of 192GB. That’s a fraction of what the earlier technology of Mac Professional provided (1.5TB) and one thing that can affect a fringe of present Mac Professional customers. After we requested widespread Mac software program developer, Affinity, about whether or not 192GB can be a problem for his or her purposes (artistic instruments), they stated it wouldn’t.

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As a enterprise although, Apple is catering for many customers and solely a vocal minority will level out to the shortcomings of its new choices. Its {hardware} platform is quickly shifting away from the normal setup of what a desktop PC ought to appear like; built-in, mobile-first compute leads the best way with something with a touch of modularity being thrown out of the window. It’s not as if Apple was coy about it; this 2020 WWDC video made it clear that this was going to be the long run “Constructing all the things into one chip provides the system a unified reminiscence structure”.

A mix of built-in all the things and possession of the software program stack provides Apple an inherent benefit each when it comes to deployment, sheer efficiency and worth for cash that nobody will be capable of match.