Nashton
On 6/14/2013 5:56 PM, ZnU wrote:

ZnU
In article <206fb4a3-29e5-46e1-ae2d-185e0994b0cd@e13g2000yqp.googlegroups.com>, ed <news@atwistedweb.com>wrote:

ed
On Jun 13, 9:32 pm, ZnU <z...@fake.invalid>wrote:

ZnU
In article <kp5fsj$ma...@dont-email.me>, "jay birdsong" <jaybirds...@aol.com>wrote:

jay birdsong
Of course, form over function. And on the plus side, you can probably heat your home with it in the winter.

ZnU
This machine is, in fact, a classic example of form *following* function.

ed
yep- this machine is obviously very well engineered and there are very good reasons for the shape. some people are clearly confusing form over function vs tradeoffs in the functions apple designed to compared to the functions they expect (primarily internal expandability).

ZnU
Yeah, the reason this machine doesn't have internal expandability isn't because Apple wanted to make it small.

Nashton
Really?

ZnU
Apple has had an extremely ambivalent relationship with internal expandability for, well, about 30 years now, going all the way back to the original Mac.

Nashton
You mean to say that Apple wasn't able to make towers with as many slots as Wintel. Apple wasn't willing to give it's loyal customer base what it wanted. <Insert insanely great reason here>.

ZnU
They've offered it when they wanted to be present in markets where there was no plausible alternative, but that's about it. With Thunderbolt 2 and dual on-board GPU options, they now believe there is a plausible alternative for the Mac Pro's user base.

Nashton
This is a design failure. The only reason people will buy this is because they have significant software investment in the platform. When they find out the Mac Pro will cost them an arm and a leg and probably render a big chunk of their hardware obsolete, they will be most certainly pondering on whether to switch for dedicated PCs.