This summer, Apple finally revealed the design and specifications of its new Mac Pro. It’s Apple’s first significantly updated tower model in a decade, and the first designed from scratch since the imposing aluminum PowerMac G5 originally arrived back in 2003. Here’s a look at what the new Mac Pro will deliver for pro users and the strategy behind its radically new redesign.
Apple details the new Mac Pro at WWDC19
As first revealed this summer at WWDC19, Apple’s new Mac Pro no longer aspires to be, effectively, a “souped-up Mac mini” like the 2013 Mac Pro it replaces. Instead, it dramatically goes in the other direction, offering more CPU, GPU, RAM and PCIe slot expansion than ever inside of a more conventional—but modernized—tower form factor, along with an option for a rack-mounted version that allows it to be installed in a secure, climate-controlled server room.
A stainless steel “space frame” consists of two tubes on either side of the machine that spans from foot to handle to foot. The two tubes are bridged by a rigid top and bottom panel that everything else in the machine bolts to, making it modular on a level beyond any previous Mac tower.
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