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Apple ‘Extreme’ Mac chips were too good for this RAM-starved world
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Fast-forward to today, where Gurman reports that Apple not only had an M2 Extreme but also an M3 Extreme, and the plans were to use those chips in the Mac Pro.
You know the end of this story: Apple eventually discontinued the Mac Pro this past March.
For example, the Mac Studio–the Mac that took the place of the Mac Pro as Apple’s highest-end model–is available only in a 96GB RAM configuration, after Apple discontinued the 256GB option due to the supply crunch.
The current RAM shortage would’ve surely impacted Apple’s supply of an M3 Extreme Mac Pro.
Not only would it have been extremely expensive, but between the production issues and RAM crunch, an Extreme Mac Pro would’ve ended up being a machine that everyone wanted, but no one could buy.