The lattice idea actually predated this new Mac Pro design, a design innovation waiting for just the right product to come along. The lack of thermal headroom is what kept the cylinder Mac Pro from being able to evolve, and the new model's combination of massive fans, giant heat sinks and open-ended front and rear panels are a key engineering feature. The carved openings keep the weight of the shell down, and more importantly help air move through the system. The lattice-like panels on the front and back of the system are more than just visual. Twitter was immediately filled with comparison images of the front panel of the Mac Pro and various cheese-shredding implements. The most immediate reaction to the new Mac Pro design is that it looks like a. If you really need to use Nvidia hardware on your Mac Pro, you can still run it via Boot Camp mode with Windows. While Apple has shipped products with Nvidia graphics in the past, the company says a deep level of collaborative engineering between AMD and Apple powers the current partnership, and that there's no quick fix for supporting Nvidia GPUs. If you're looking for Nvidia GPUs, well, keep looking. Tim Cook and Jony Ive check out the new Mac Pro. Or you could fill them with two of Apple's custom AMD Radeon Pro Vega II Duo MPX modules, which each take up two double slots worth of space inside the case. What Apple ended up with is a desktop that is much more modular than most other desktops, with a whopping eight PCIe slots (the high-throughput slots used for graphics cards and other add-on cards), including four double-height slots, which are the type used by massive graphics cards. The company debated what its next Mac Pro should look like, or even if there should be a next Mac Pro, as the size of the market for a niche machine like that isn't huge. The idea for the new Mac Pro wasn't strictly a return to former glories. And, based on the temperature in the room at the WWDC keynote in San Jose, the assembled crowd of developers and other professionals couldn't be happier. The venting may be different, as are the internal component options and the removable outer shell, but this is aesthetically more like the pre-trash-can Mac Pro than different. Instead, WWDC brought us an almost shockingly traditional desktop tower in the new Mac Pro. And for the community of pro-level creators, artists and developers, it's been the Mac Pro desktop and its six-year detour as a unique cylindrical compact mini-computer.

For others, the butterfly keyboard in current Apple laptops. For some it's the Touch Bar on the MacBook Pro.

For a company with such tremendous customer loyalty, Apple attracts fans who can also zero in on a handful of features or topics they are just not down with.

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