How good was the 2019 Mac Pro?

Consider this: a widely available machine, up to 1.5TB of system RAM, room for 4 passively cooled GPUs with 128GB of VRAM, in desktop or rack format.

That machine was released in 2019, then discontinued in favor of one that had only a max of 192GB shared memory.

This would be the local LLM machine right now, if it were on the market with up to date components. Terribly expensive, sure, but that’s the market conditions, not a design flaw.