You may not be able to afford it, but the Mac is back on the workstation map
C lever as 2013’s cylindrical Mac Pro was, flexibility was limited, and by 2017 Apple was talking about its replacement. That in itself suggested a willingness to listen, and the machine finally unveiled by Tim Cook at WWDC really is what pro users had demanded: a traditional modular tower – with a few twists. The industrial ‘cheesegrater’ grille on the front and back of the one-piece aluminium sleeve, reportedly based on an older Apple prototype, unites the Mac Pro and its companion Apple Pro Display XDR while solving airflow challenges for both.
This story is from the August 2019 edition of MacFormat UK.
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