Color me suprised!

[Matt_H]

When the new Mac Pro was announced, I was ranting here about how it would be unexpandable and impossible to upgrade and Apple proprietary blah blah blah. Imagine my surprise when the teardown revealed mostly the opposite. I still think the lack of internal drive bays and slot(s) is ridiculous, but the value for money appears better than I expected.

Another element of interest is that the system uses megaray connectors, just like on the old PPC Macs and our own AmigaOne XEs. I can't imagine there's any electrical compatibility, but I thought the use of the same physical connector was noteworthy.

[Matt_H]

Is it a coffee percolator or one of those mini waste-paper bins you put on you desk? :-)

Sure looks like it, doesn't it? In 10-15 years when these things are worthless as computing devices I bet we'll see some interesting art projects made out of the cases

[Matt_H]

@ persia

That picture illustrates my point about lack of internal expansion perfectly! Thanks for sharing

[Matt_H]

To be fair to Apple, an external cage would solve that rats nest of wires and boxes problem.

Unfortunately, I don't see anyone manufacturing any Thunderbolt-interface mini-towers with PCI-E slots and drive bays...