Not really. Not seen as a instantiated piece of metal on display on stage ? No. Not seen at all ... Apple had what was at least a rendering at the WWDC announcement presentation. (if not pictures of actual prototype cases )
[ couldn't find a better reference article but it is related to this one so the picture is there.
https://9to5mac.com/2019/06/04/kubernetes-on-mac-macstadium/ ]
After that quickie flash on the stage, Apple has gone info radio silent on it. Zip on the marketing web pages. Zip on Apple's site or the latest dog and pony show. They may be hoping if they wait long enough folks will forget they promised a Fall date for it too.
Was that a picture of a conceptual rendering they really hadn't put that much effort into. After two years of "dog ate my homework" excuses, that is has to be a plausible path they are on.
the above clearly isn't. The ports from the top are moved to the front. The air flow of the Mac Pro goes front to back. The ports on the top are perpendicular to that. Highly likely the top and bottom plate held by the "space frame" in the tower set up are not here, because the "space frame" is in the same orientation either ( and the space frame is unnecessary also. This doesn't have feet (or wheels ) to attach to the bottom of the frame. )
The power button is on the top also of the tower. That too is extremely useless on system put into a rack where cannot access the sides. It is kind of hard to see in that photo snapped from the video stream but
if Jump to around 1:41 in
WWDC 2019 Keynote you'll see there is a rectangle button on the front that is likely the power button. ( kind of useful to turn a racked element off before pull it out of its position in the rack. )
Could there be some alternative path "pads" on the motherboard where Apple could add buttons and ports for the system instead of the top. Yes. I'd put that higher than some Rube Goldberg cabling that remapped the ports and button from what is now on the side out to the front inside the case.
It is going to be a tad awkward when have to deal with RAM or NAND data blades that will be on the bottom of the system when slide it out if the board is the primarily the same.
The above appears to be a purposeful case. That means another path through Industrial Design and that , in my opinion , likely means a longer path to market. What kind of funky holes should we drill in this box questions and the like.
The more attuned the slower it will appear. They haven't followed up on it which suggest problems.. However, They at least sneak peaked it.
If this really isn't conceptual art and a real system I suspect that Apple will probably "sell" these to a select few for a while before going public with them ( big assumption that they actually have their act together on this... I would bet the farm on that at all. ). There is a handful of bulk consumers of these and they could just work out the kinks with them before rolling them out to others. ( if they are making them in China or better Taiwan ( yeah they are different PRC fanboys), they may have wanted to keep them way off the radar until well after Trump's dog and pony show. ). If things are actually on track that would be why there is nothing still being said.
It is more likely though that it is just chronically late ... just like the tower version is chronically late from last desktop/deskside version they shipped. Yet another story about being late, so Apple is kicking the can on disclosure.
