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by equalarrow 2541 days ago
I agree with all this. However, even though I still use Macs for everything, it's been clear to me for a while that Apple 'Pro' users are not tech people. There is a big difference in keyboard necessity between a developer and any 'Pro' user. Key travel, actually having real keys, are all a big deal to devs.

I think Apple lost their function and form way a while ago. It's never coming back. The new Mac Pro is the latest example of this. I bought a 2018 MB Pro 13" last year and the touch bar is a waste of space in my mind. We see now that Apple is ditching the scissor keys, but regardless, their design decisions for a while have just been wanting to have something look cool instead of a balance of looking good and functioning great.
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scarface74 2541 days ago
The Mac Pro is the perfect example of function over form. It’s big, not that beautiful and expandable like crazy. Did you mean the MacBook Pro?
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m463 2541 days ago
I thought the mac pro wasn't super expandable. No spinning drives possible, miniscule flash drive space, no pcie power plugs.
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giobox 2541 days ago
Although apple doesn’t publicise the fact all that much on the new Mac Pro coming later this year, it does actually have two SATA ports and some 8 pin power connectors. Apple don’t provide the necessary “cage” to mount the drives (at least as far as we know so far), but third parties have already announced some products that mount internally and use these ports to connect a bunch of disks.

As for power, I believe the two MPX bays provide dual 8pin connectors for up to an extra 300 watts, so should support most power hungry pci-e card designs.

Honestly though, if you can afford this machine it’s not like really any of this matters, this isn’t exactly a hobbyist computer people are going to buy and upgrade themselves all that much.

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m463 2540 days ago
Thank you, that does sound a little more hopeful.

(It does matter to me, I have owned several mac pro towers and wouldn't touch the trash can with a 10-foot pole)

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scarface74 2540 days ago
Just to make sure we are on the same page, the parent poster said the “new Mac Pro”.

https://www.apple.com/mac-pro/

They haven’t announced the maximum amount of flash drive space you can get from them (and I wouldn’t pay Apple prices for it anyway), but you can get 4TB of overpriced SSD storage on the current iMac Pro.

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m463 2539 days ago
but they said:

"Storage Configure up to 4TB of SSD storage"

(You can get that from a single 2.5" ssd right now on amazon)

Sort of underspec'd when you consider the 1.5tb of RAM you can configure.

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scarface74 2539 days ago
Would you really want a lot of internal storage space on it? Wouldn’t you want a separate redundant external very fast SAN?
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