Apple is currently hard at work on a “completely rethought” Mac Pro, with a modular design that can accommodate high-end CPUs and big honking hot-running GPUs, and which should make it easier for Apple to update with new components on a regular basis. They’re also working on Apple-branded pro displays to go with them.
This is good news. Especially the part about updatable “modules,” but it’s not clear if that means that users can upgrade them.
But they won’t be out this year.
So Apple bumped the Mac Pro a bit, with faster processors and video cards, but at the same old price. Huh.
Would you buy the new Mac Pro today? Perhaps you really, really need one, but you’re looking at an already end-of-life machine. Sure, it’ll run for a while, but if there’s going to be a newer Mac Pro in, say, a year, you won’t be able to resell the one you buy no. I think Apple should have dropped the price on the upgraded model to factor in obsolescence.