FYI, that "(taller)" you're quoting looks like an older statement I may have made? I can't recall saying anything like that recently.
But it does sound like something I've said - - and in trying to recall what my thoughts were at that time, I think that what it was that a "Stretch Trash Can" could have made some sense for Apple at *some* point in time, where the objective would have been to offer some more internal expansion capabilities while sidestepping any admission that the cylindrical Trash Can was a horrible mistake.
In any event, I'll say now that my response is "No, but yes".
No ... because Apple has revealed that one of the major design weaknesses of their triangular heat sink inside of a cylinder is that it necessitated its heat loads to be balanced - - which means that this configuration (triangular heat sink in a cylinder) almost certainly has to die.
And:
Yes ... because my hopes are that Apple is going to have to reverse course on the Mac Pro's minimization of volume as we've seen with the Trash Can, which will conceptually placate some Pros by having sufficient empty space to allow some degree of internal DIY upgrades. Granted, it might not be any better than an additional ten cubic inches so as to facilitate better cooling and an empty slot for an Apple proprietary M.2 clone SSD blades, but... And to that end, an increase in volume can use all three dimensions (and shapes other than a cylinder), not only height.
