Apple Mulling Preview of New Modular Mac Pro at WWDC in June

Apple are just 'mulling' this over?? Their lack of commitment to the Pro market is astounding (but sadly not surprising)!!

Why is this so hard? There are a million companies making modular, upgradeable chassis for professionals. I have one sitting under my desk, running Linux. This is not a laptop where every millimetre counts.
Life only becomes difficult when Apple makes proprietary machines that are impossible to service, upgrade, or repair (macbook pro, imac pro, current mac pro). But that's not the goal this time, right Apple? ....Apple?

I have a feeling people will be disappointed.

Apple is really over-thinking this. Mac Pro is a truck to get work done, and all it's drivers want is a modern cheese grater-style tower. :rolleyes:

sure... and it will be available at the end of december 2019 :rolleyes:

If they keep waiting they won't have anyone left to sell it to... I mean people move on.

Gotta admit, I find the touch bar on a tower pretty odd; it seems like something I’d come up with for a GIF. Might as well pop a notch on that bad boy too.

Ah, why the hell not?

I'm also mulling over whether I want to continue working on OSX after 14 years because of the crapola that is the Touch Bar MacBook Pro, macOS and marzipan stupidification, Pro apps that died on the vine, and no commitment to desktop Macs.

Two things make me expect disappointment:

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* Mac mini pricing (with decent amounts of RAM and storage) is absurd, and there's no way the new Mac Pro will be more affordable.
* The fact that it's taking them this damn long guarantees that we'll get an over engineered, over complicated, and over priced machine. It doesn't take years to design an expandable chassis.

I've been using Apple products since my family got an Apple ][+ when I was a kid. I've used Windows machines in various jobs, but I've never once purchased a non-Apple computer. I hope never to have to, but Apple pisses me off lately.

Apple is becoming a victim of their own success. Johny Ive and crew have produced some beautiful designs, from Macs to iPods to iPhones. But now it's design and flash über alles, practicality be damned.

I used to be able to say, "Apple doesn't sell low end computers, but what they do sell is price competitive with comparably equipped PCs." Take a look at the Mac mini, and you'll see that's not true anymore: In many ways (particularly GPU), it's a low-end machine at high-end prices. Granted, the Mac Pro will be a high-end machine (at launch anyway; we'll see if Apple leaves it to languish again), but I expect the prices will start out high and quickly rise to ridiculous once options are added.

Apple, just give us a box we can open easily, that we can add RAM and storage (both SSD and HD) ourselves, with an upgradeable GPU. You did this a decade ago, and every other PC maker does this today. You can differentiate yourself from the others by making the box not ugly, and of course, with Mac OS. It's not that complicated, so stop making it so.

I am guessing "Pro workflow Team" will make this "the most expansive Mac we have ever shipped!" This is ridiculous, businesses have to plan for purchasing of equipment. All this secrecy over a desktop computer is complete nonsense and a giant "FU" to every professional user that has supported Apple.