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We also call them "trashcans" in conversation. It's an identifiable and memorable term, rather than "mac pro (original/2006)", "mac pro (cylinder/2013)" or "mac pro (cheese grater/2019)"

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Didn't the original Mac Pro look like a cheese grater, too?

It had a mesh in the pre trash can version but the new one looks far more like a grater with spaced holes and an indented piece of metal that looks like the blade.

https://icdn2.digitaltrends.com/image/digitaltrends/mac-pro-...

https://blog.macsales.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/prod_ap...

Sure, but for more than a decade the original aluminum tower was called the cheese grater.

Cheese grater will definitely stick just like trashcan. Both highly utilitarian tools, mind you.

Am I old? Everyone's talking about whether this new 'cheese grater' name will take off. But that's what we called the old aluminum case since the G5.

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