>>>>>>>http://www.apple.com/mac-pro/
>>>>>>>Some serious workstation muscle, in an interesting physical design.
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>>>>>>Very interesting design - tho I'm not much into ascetics when it comes to computing :-}
>>>>>>Got the impression it was about two feet high until I got to the end. Only 6" diameter x 9" is certainly compact.....
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>>>>I'd imagine the design in both cases is driven by the need for good cooling. TBH, my previous reply was a bit of an understatement - I was thinking more in terms of a 40 gallon drum :-}
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>One thing that interests me is whether Apple will patent the design. If so, and they don't license the design (they've never license any of their other physical designs) then I'm guessing a lot of its components will be unique. Power supply, mobo, interconnects, ...
>Unique = FIERCELY expensive. Computers these days are ridiculously cheap due to standardization and immense volumes.
>Not to mention - how likely are parts going to be available 2 years from now when you want to upgrade or pieces start to fail?

The design might offer for cooling aspects a nice compromize to a totally submerged system - which could house all of the Pro parts as external plugs dont need to be submerged. Nice to see SSD given faster I/O via PCIe - fearing that upgrades there might be unreasonably expensive. A bit unclear about core / max memory function, so doubtful if it would make a nice DB server.