I feel ya, I like my Apple ][+ with shift-key mod too. That was my favorite, followed by NeXT cube, Cheesegrater is at #3 ... I haven't ever formed an emotional bond with an SGI or Sun, go figure.
OTOH, I mean, the replacement is another Cheese Grater, so just think of it as an opportunity to evolve your love and joy, because they obviously just caved in to what our tiny target demographic wants... which is, a Cheese Grater! And then, after that, they'll update it again in 5 years! But, it haz slots instead of magical pixie dust & superglue, so we'll survive to complain another day.
I do not hold the new cheese graters in the same high regard, because of the cost. I found a Youtube video where a snooty movie maker said the reason lower forms life such as myself do not see the cost justified is "The computer was not made for people like you." That got me thinking.
Dorkman, the movie guy, appeared to not notice how his explanation did not add up the way seemed to think. Basically, he said he needs a MacPro because the software he uses for movie work runs on macOS and that justifies the cost of the new MacPro. He mentioned Final Cut Pro, some other package for music, and Finder with preview is very valuable.
Seems to me he misses the point about how the high cost is a problem. THE problem is not how much it costs, it is what you get and do not get for what it costs. A non-wimpy new MacPro is going to cost $12,000. The problem is regardless of the processing power loaded into any particular new MacPro, the price on that power is a huge premium. Expect increased growth in the Hackiintosh industry
We do not need a revolutionary new MacPro. The MacPro needs to made out of aluminum to protect the internals from electric and physicial shocks, awesome fans with flexible controls that can crank the power (the sound of cranking all the fans to max on the 5,1 is AWESOME), but run the fans only as fast as need to to keep the boys in the box from heat stroke. Then it needs to accept four high end graphics cards. It needs four of every kind plug, including USB A and C with USB 3, two audio jacks just like we had, and other plugs for all the latest stuff. Allow space for two of the graphics cards to be used for hard disk drives instead. THe minimum config for drives should have been a 2T SSD plus two 8T hdds, with room for adding two 4T ssds and two more HDDs. THe processor should be at least one i9 or an AMD 3700 and mimimum memory should be 64G DDR4. They need a non-embarrassing GPU in the miniimum configuration they sell, but allow people to buy without a graphics card or cpu with the clear explanation that you can run weaker components if you want, but then APple would not be responsibile for the performance. All this could have been done for under $5k Apple could have had a new 24 T HDD developed and announced as an option for the new MacPro,.
Obviiously, it needs to have a late model high performance wifi and bluetooth, and they could have done this in 2013 or 2019 in way that emphasizes utility instead of the Jony Ives design touch. The boxing of the GPUS into their own subboxes could have been a great cool thing., but it did not need to add $3000 to the price.
I think the new MacPro is done in the style of luxury instead of for providing practical solution for the wide variety of work done by people making their livings who benefit from a high powered machine.
Giving ammunition to Dorkman and anyone with the "I'm better than you" attitude he flagrantly stands on to explain why the new MacPro is good for the good people and the rest of the people don't a real pro computer. What a dork! I need a computer to run 5 VMs at once.That means i need a lot of memory. I need it rugged and that means NOT a laptop or mac mini. And it can be done forhalf the price or less than Apple is offering to do it. Dorkman is no more of a pro than any of us here to use this stuff for a living. Movies need a lot of horsepower other professional activities don't need. Dorkman chooses to make status symbols part of is professional practive. I reject that, because my clients trust me more when I don't blow smoke up their butts.
Dorkman made a good point about the big new monitor, explaining how the price is low when viewed in comparison to other monitors in that league, even if you spring the $!000 for the stand.
The same cannot be said about the new computer.
Regarding the new cheese grater body, to me, the return to the cheese grater motif emphasizes the mistake Apple made when they went down Trash Can Road.
So, in conclusion, I hate that the only serious justification for the new MacPro is based on snobbery with broken logic in support.
You can see Dorkman's video at this link.
