Some models of internal SATA drives may unexpectedly disconnect from your computer after your Mac wakes up from sleep,” Apple said. This can happen if your Mac automatically goes to sleep or if you manually put your Mac to sleep. If you see a prompt saying that your disk was not ejected properly, you can restart your Mac to reconnect to the hard drive.”

As a temporary solution, users can prevent the Mac Pro from automatically going to sleep by opening the System Settings app, clicking on Display → Advanced…, and turning on the option to “Prevent automatic sleep when display is turned off.

As previously reported, the new Mac Pro was announced on Tuesday and features Apple’s M2 Ultra chip. The desktop has the same design as the Intel processor-based model coming in 2019, but because it uses Apple Silicon’s unified architecture, it doesn’t support graphics and users can’t upgrade memory, Apple suggests that customers who don’t need PCIe expansion consider buying the Mac Studio.

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The new Mac Studio has 1 HDMI 2.1 port and the new Mac Pro has 2 HDMI 2.1 ports. By expanding these ports, users can connect an 8K display at 60Hz or a 4K display at 240Hz; the M2 Ultra chip also supports up to 6 external Pro Display XDRs.

The previous Mac Studio supported up to 5 external displays when configured with the M1 Ultra chip, and Apple’s M1 Mac devices released in 2020 can only connect to 1 external display, so the new model supports up to 8, which is a considerable improvement.

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The score page shows that the new Mac Pro has a single-core score of 2794 and a multi-core score of 21453.

For comparison, the 2019 year-end model (with Intel’s 28-core Xeon W-3275M @ 2.5 GHz) has a single-core performance of 1378 points and a multi-core score of 10,390 points. The new Mac Pro’s single-core and multi-core scores are more than twice as good as its predecessor.

The relevant records and found that the new Mac Pro’s Metal score was 312585.

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When Apple launched the previous generation Mac Pro in 2019, it was “Made in the USA,” with components designed, developed and manufactured by more than a dozen U.S. companies and delivered to U.S. customers.

And on the nameplate of the latest Mac Pro products, there’s a “Product of Thailand” label. MacRumors contacted Apple about the issue and has yet to receive a response.

The nameplate for the 2019 Mac Pro models sold in the U.S. is as follows: “Designed by Apple in California.

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The new computer has the same exterior design as the Intel version of the Mac Pro launched in 2019, with eight Thunderbolt ports and six PCIe slots for expansion and support for up to six Pro Display XDRs.

The Mac Pro with M2 Ultra has a 24-core CPU, up to 76-core GPU and 192GB of memory. Apple says the new Mac Pro is up to three times faster than the fastest Intel-based Mac Pro.

The new Mac Pro also features two HDMI ports, dual 10Gb Ethernet, and a 32-core neural engine for machine learning tasks, with support for the latest Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.3 wireless connectivity.

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Mark Gurman covered a variety of Mac devices in the podcast, and the relevant information is as follows:

Mac Pro: Apple will still launch before the end of this year, but it will not be unveiled at WWDC in June. Apple has noticeably delayed the launch.

Mac Studio: Does not use the M2 series chips, and will not be updated until the M3 series is launched to avoid affecting the sales of Mac Pro.

15-inch MacBook Air: This notebook still has the M2 chip, which Apple was supposed to launch last year. The 13-inch MacBook Air may be the first to upgrade the M3 chip, and the 15-inch will be upgraded later.

Headsets: Mark Gurman said that Apple’s first AR/VR headset supports “in-air typing” functionality/features. Apple’s previous generations of headsets had a battery life of around 2 hours.

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According to the latest issue of Bloomberg’s “Power On” newsletter, Mark Gurman said that new MacBook models will appear at the event.

According to him, the 15-inch MacBook Air, the new 13-inch MacBook Air, the new entry-level 13-inch MacBook Pro, the new 24-inch iMac, the new high-end MacBook Pro, and the first Mac Pro with Apple Silicon, while Apple’s plans include two A successor to Mac Studio.

All Mac models are said to be coming in 2023 or early 2024, with the exception of a new version of Mac Studio, whose timing is “less clear.”

Gurman believes that “at least some” laptop models will be launched at WWDC, but he also pointed out that the new machine may not use the M3 chip, but retain the M2 series.

According to previous reports, the new MacBook has actually appeared in Apple’s test logs, including the 15-inch MacBook Air, which may be an indicator of new WWDC products, but more details will not be revealed until WWDC.

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For Apple users who are planning to buy a Mac Pro, or who have high processing performance requirements, the performance of discrete graphics cards is more important. On Intel Macs, you can connect a mobile GPU via Thunderbolt or add discrete graphics inside the Mac Pro, but Apple Silicon doesn’t currently have such an extension.

According to four newly disclosed patents, Apple is already considering this issue, and Apple’s patent, titled “Mapping Logical Slots of Graphics Processors to Hardware Slots,” says, “Given their growing computing needs, graphics processing units (GPUs) are now widely used for large-scale workloads.

In another patent, “Kickslot Manager Circuitry For Graphics Processors,” Apple describes a solution that allows switching between GPUs. The slot manager circuitry can use entries in the tracking slot circuitry to specify which GPUs are used by which applications and the slot manager circuitry can pre-fetch configuration register data for a graphics working set from that location before assigning shader core resources to the graphics working set,” the patent states.

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Here is a description of game performance from Apple’s Mac Mini official website: “The amazing graphics processing performance of M2 or M2 Pro allows you to play graphics-intensive 3A game masterpieces such as “Pascal’s Contract” and enjoy smoothness. High frame rate and high fidelity picture.”

In the review, foreign technology media MacWorld bought a new Mac Mini with an M2 Pro chip, 16GB of memory, and a 1TB SSD for $1,800, which can indeed handle most AAA games.

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With Prioritize Graphics mode preset to 1080P resolution, the frame rate of the tested games ranged from 70-120fps. With MetalFX Upscaling on in Quality mode, performance can be increased by about 30%. You can even crank it up to 4K and output at 40-60fps in Prioritize Graphics mode.

That said, Apple Mac gaming performance is fine, but there’s no advantage for Windows PCs at the same price point, and the number of games available for the platform is still very small.

Tim Millet, Apple’s chip designer, also admitted that there are gaps in the Apple Silicon chip for gaming. He said Apple will not use the tagline “Mac is a great gaming platform” in its communications, but Apple will continue to improve Apple Silicon’s gaming performance in the future.

Valve recently released its Steam hardware and software survey for January 2023. In terms of operating systems, the percentage of Linux players has not changed, while the number of macOS players has increased by 0.13 percentage points compared to the previous month, with a current share of 2.61%.

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Given the March 2022 release of macOS 12.3 and the April 2021 release of macOS 11.3, it’s likely that macOS 13.3 will also be released in the spring. Apple will likely introduce a new Mac Pro at this spring’s event, followed shortly after by macOS 13.3 for supported computers. The new Mac Pro is expected to come with Apple’s new M2 Ultra chip, but the higher-end “M2 Extreme” chip has reportedly been dropped.

Last October, Gurman said that the long-awaited MacBook Pro 14-inch and 16-inch models with the M2 Pro and M2 Max chips would also be bundled with macOS 13.3, suggesting that these laptops could also be released this spring.

Gurman previously claimed that a new Mac mini was testing the M2 and M2 Pro chips, but he hasn’t talked about what’s new with the Mac mini lately. The device is expected to be released alongside the new Mac Pro and MacBook Pro models. In the meantime, Apple will continue to sell Intel-based devices in the Mac Pro and Mac mini configurations.

Apple hasn’t released any new Macs since the release of the M2 chip-equipped MacBook Air last July, creating a longer window of opportunity.

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