

Apple silicon doesn't support RAM unless it's onboard.


The same goes for RAM - the new Mac Pro has no RAM slots to speak of because you guessed it. That, of course, is because Apple silicon doesn't support GPUs that aren't hardwired in as part of those fancy M2 Ultra chips. But do you know what you won't be putting in there? New GPUs. Specialist video and audio houses will have cards you've never heard of just waiting to go into those slots. Sure, there are SATA ports for plugging your SSD storage in and there are PCI Express slots - six of them. Now, however, that space doesn't go anywhere near as far as it did in 2019 when the Mac Pro launched. Space to add new graphics cards, space for a ton of HDDs, and space for more RAM memory slots than you knew what to do with. But the Mac Studio has that now, so the key differentiator? Space. That and the globs of performance it offered. Once upon a time that space was what sold the Mac Pro.
