I must say the Mac Pro's design is sheer brilliance.
It's not as much the aluminium exterior as it is the internal layout. Slide-out drawers for optical drives and RAM (and CPU, FWIW). The four drive bays, requiring no screws or nightmarish cables.
It stays remarkably cool, too.
Even the hard drives remain in the mid-30s, temperature-wise. I've NEVER seen temps this low in any of my previous homebuilt PCs - and I was airflow-conscious with case design too... (cables, et al)
Lastly, the integrated optical drive remains silent. The HP DVD-RW drive I bought for the second bay makes a notable whirring noise when putting in a disc...
It's not as much the aluminium exterior as it is the internal layout. Slide-out drawers for optical drives and RAM (and CPU, FWIW). The four drive bays, requiring no screws or nightmarish cables.
It stays remarkably cool, too.
Even the hard drives remain in the mid-30s, temperature-wise. I've NEVER seen temps this low in any of my previous homebuilt PCs - and I was airflow-conscious with case design too... (cables, et al)
Lastly, the integrated optical drive remains silent. The HP DVD-RW drive I bought for the second bay makes a notable whirring noise when putting in a disc...