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Mac Pro 2019 Teardown

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> "The new Mac Pro is a Fixmas miracle: beautiful, amazingly well put together, and a masterclass in repairability... Motivations and quibbles aside, this is without a doubt the most repairable Apple product in recent memory."

It's good to see a signal like this that perhaps Apple doesn't have a universal anti-repair philosophy, just a "make it thinner" philosophy. But that when thin isn't a goal...

Or maybe they just know that people that will pay five figures for a Mac Pro are not the kind of people that will fix anything themselves, or go to a non-authorized repair shop.

I would say this is pretty accurate. The first two generations of iMac G5 for example were beautifully laid out internally and a dream to work on. When did that all go down the toilet? When they decided the iMac needed to be thinner. The third generation of iMac G5 onward were dramatically thinner at the cost of repairability.

Yeah, no

>We're happy to see a modular SSD, but not happy knowing it's bound to the T2 chip, meaning user-replacements are a no-go

I bet the vast majority of Apple's users don't care about thin-ness as much as their designers do.

I continue to stubbornly use a 2011 MBP because that's the last generation that is still very repairable (well, except for the LCD). It also has USB, Firewire 800, MagSafe, and an SD card slot. I really don't care that it's a bit thicker.

Thin-ness only really matters to me when I'm sitting on the front row of a Southwest flight, where all carry-ons are required to be stowed in the overhead bins on takeoff and landing. I have a 2016 MBP that fits neatly in the magazine tray against the wall, so I don't have to put it away :-)

We’ve now seen three products released since the creation of the “Pro Workflow Team” (iMac Pro, 16" “magic keyboard” Macbook Pro, Mac Pro). This team apparently consists of "artists and creatives who came out of the industry, in the video, audio, and 3D space, [... and] system architecture people and deep computer scientists that partner with the first group,” all working alongside the product designers.

The iMac Pro was fairly well received, and the 16" Macbook Pro is near universally acclaimed. Early word on the Mac Pro is that it’s great for folks who need that kind of lift. It sounds like this plan is paying off.

That's fascinating, I didn't know about the Pro Workflow Team.

It's very cool and actually deeply satisfying to see a company recognize customer feedback, build a team to address it, and deliver on it.

Capitalism working at its best, rather than its worst. :)

Is the Trade off for T2 Security worth it, when you have to paid the most ridiculously priced SSD upgrade on the market from Apple?

Other than that it is near perfect apart form the price. I was willing to spend $3K for it, and I sort of expect with Apple that could mean I paid a little more for upgrade so I guess may be $3.5- $4K. When they announced it was $6K and for that Spec. I am completely priced out.

$3K wouldn't buy an equivalent machine from any other vendor. For example, try configuring an equivalent workstation from Dell: https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/workstations-isv-certif...

You'll usually find that the Mac is cheaper than an equivalent configuration from another vendor (at least if selecting Intel processors - that all changes if you switch to equivalent AMD compute cores). And the bigger/more powerful the configuration, the higher the price from an equivalent vendor. To exactly match the maxed-out configuration, you'd pay $75k to Dell (vs $50k for the Mac Pro).

So odd seeing it score a 9. The sad part is that we accepted that as the odd thing and not the norm

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