[geeks] Replacing a Mac Pro 2006

[Ben Greisler]

On Dec 2, 2012, at 3:31 PM, Shannon wrote:

> Yeah, have to agree there. I'm not even sure it would hurt them or kill the
> Mac Pro either. There is room for something.

Apple announced there would be something else that we should see mid-2013 from
what I understand.

>
> Another thing they need to do is get off the stupid super-thin design rut.
I
> don't WANT stuff to get thinner. Its already uncomfortably thin, and
severely
> limits capabilities and grossly increases maintenance issues.

Most people really don't care what is inside the machine and broken machines
aren't a huge problem percentage-wise. And now that Apple includes two 10Gbs
Thunderbolt connections on the iMacs, allows up to 32GB RAM and both SSD and
spinning rust disks, there is a pretty good choice of options. Thunderbolt
allows the connection of anything from a 10GBs HBA to fibre channel to
anything else that is PCie.

>
> The iMacs the reason I can't use one is they are incredibly difficult to
work
> on, and in their quest to make them excessively thin, they dropped features

Curious, what did they drop from the iMacs that can't be added back in again
via TB?


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