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The Mac Pro that you keep on pining over is NOT that expandable -- in fact the Mac Pro 2013 is much more expandable. I have a Mac Pro 2008, two graphics cards (5770).... which take up all but the lowest speed PCIe slot (a SATA card in there). All 4 hard drive bays full..... no more expansion possible. With the Mac Pro 2013 it has the two graphics cards in there and up to 36 Thunderbolt devices.... so add a Thunderbolt 4 drive bay (and I have 35 left). Or add a 24 bay one and still have 35 left.....

Or, instead of all that upgrades for MP 2013, for the same money, you buy a house.
 
i am more than 100% sure in next few month we will see a revolution in macs, they have been so similar far last few years now its 10th anniversary of mbp and probably we will see amazing new mac pro with reasonable price too
 
This makes a lot of sense for a new Mac Pro

6 x "HS" USB ports, most likely 6 x 3.1 USB-C ports with Thunderbolt

4 x "SSP" USB ports, might still be USB 3 type A ports
 
i am more than 100% sure in next few month we will see a revolution in macs, they have been so similar far last few years now its 10th anniversary of mbp and probably we will see amazing new mac pro with reasonable price too

I don't understand why they don't do it. Where is the non mini non pro and non imac option? Where is the pc equivalent that would go into offices and homes? I am not going to buy another imac, not going to buy the mac pro, hell no and the mini is underpowered. The whole mac strategy in 2015 is complete BS. So much so that I started making a pc for my audio stuff and it's just so frustrating. Apple gimps everything by controlling the levels of what is offered for a price, then the upgrade costs x + apple tax. I really hope there is more of a backlash soon, I'm getting sick of this. Can't be the only one.

Lots of people have money for you apple, they love the OS, don't strangle the **** out of your customers.
 
Even though I'm not in the market for one I do love to see a refresh. NVMe SSDs with 2GB/sec read speeds, snappy 16-18 core Xeons, even beefier GPUs. Yeah.

I really want to see some of the new Liquid Cooled AMD GPU's with HBM.
 
New Mac Pro? Thunderbolt 3? Support for an Apple Retina Display?

YES PLEASE!!!

This would be the perfect timing to screw me, since I was going to blow some computer upgrade nest egg cash to get an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil to hold me over for a while, to do web, mobile music, and maybe graphics work on. Currently, I'm in a spending freeze with a late 2009 13" MacBook Pro (NON-retina machine I hate doing photography work on) and a POS Dell LCD from hell (that I cannot do photography on). I don't want to blow the whole computer upgrade nest egg on a laptop-component-styled iMac that'll commit heat-related suicide in three to four years use, or lacks user access to drive replacement.

If the Mac Pro refresh I want appears now, I'll probably not have money for Mac Pro, retina display, software upgrades, connector adapters, AND an iPad Pro+Pencil. :-/ But then, I'll probably not have money for the Mac itself. :p
 
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I personally like the "trash can" design (I just wish I could justify buying a new one -- current one is still going fairly strong). It is nice to have a powerful machine that you can just pack up sling over your shoulder and bring it with you when you really really need to.

Likewise, I'm more than happy with the design and thinking behind the cooling.
My only reasons for not buying onw is Apple's choice of components.

They could spec very different components and sell a TON of these.
The ultimate gaming computer even. Two Titan X's perhaps and dump with silly CPU's 99.9% of people don't want/need.

DO that and they could take over the high end gaming world.

Or course they wont :(
 
The whole mac strategy in 2015 is complete BS. So much so that I started making a pc for my audio stuff and it's just so frustrating.
i totally agree i am apple fan boy but if i don't see any innovation or something that surprise me i am going to buy surface book it is sad but it seems apple is going to be next Nokia. i agree iPhone is best but other stuff apple make is not reasonably good enough or worth the value. we can agree win 10 is really good and surface book is one step ahead of macbook pros.
 
My 5,1 is still going strong and won't need to be upgraded for awhile. Interesting to see what comes out though. I wish they'd put 2 CPUs back in there and give it some 60K+ Geekbench scores.
 
i totally agree i am apple fan boy but if i don't see any innovation or something that surprise me i am going to buy surface book it is sad but it seems apple is going to be next Nokia. i agree iPhone is best but other stuff apple make is not reasonably good enough or worth the value. we can agree win 10 is really good and surface book is one step ahead of macbook pros.
Uh, sure we can...

Nice one!.
 

...and people wonder why Jony Ive and Co don't feel the pressure to seek the general population for "advice" on how to design their products? LMAO, this is a joke I know, but the thing is that you can guarantee that someone, somewhere ACTUALLY THINKS THIS IS A GOOD DESIGN.

I'll tell you who understands how to design Apple products; Apple. ;)
 
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