Comment by joshstrange

I guess that depends on your definition of “desktop”.

What that really means (I think) is they aren’t using the power and cooling available to them in traditional desktop setups. The iMac and the Studio/Mini and yes, even the Mac Pro, are essentially just laptop designs in different cases.

Yes, they (Studio/Pro) can run an Ultra variant (vs Max being the highest on the laptop lines) but the 2x Ultra chip so far has not materialized. Rumors say Apple has tried it but rather could get efficiencies to where they needed to be or ran into other problems connecting 2 Ultras to make a ???.

The current Mac Pro would be hilarious if it wasn’t so sad, it’s just “Mac Studio with expansion slots”. One would expect/hope that the Mac Pro would take advantage of the space in some way (other than just expansion slots, which most people have no use for aside from GPUs which the os can’t/won’t leverage IIRC).