

If the lack of traditional internal expansion slots inside didn't clue you in to that, the six Thunderbolt 2 ports plus four USB 3.0 ports on the connections panel should. "The idea being promulgated here is that your expandability should flow outward, not inward. That sounds like something close to the classic desktop tower Mac Pro, but that future system is still a ways off, coming at some unspecified time after 2017.
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The company also revealed - in a rare bit peek behind its curtain of secrecy - that an entirely new Mac Pro desktop design is in the works.
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As part of a one-two punch of Pro-level update announcements, Apple this week updated the processors and RAM on the Mac Pro.

By contrast, the unique tubular design 2013 system meant only a handful of components could be updated later on, and even those were difficult to access.īut Apple has finally given professional Mac users who've felt left out in the cold for the past many years reason for optimism. That's especially important because the 2013 "trash can" Mac Pro eschewed the more familiar PC tower design of its predecessor, which allowed for easy user-upgradable drive bays, memory and graphic cards. The cylindrical desktop tower, intended for a professional content creation audience, was introduced to much fanfare in 2013, but it's remained essentially unchanged ever since. Until now, the Mac Pro desktop was the closest Apple had to a forgotten product.
