Morphroth

This is completely insane. 

They started thinking about making a new Mac Pro, that is modular, shortly before April 2017.  The timeline has not changed.  They will be bringing out a new Mac Pro in 2019, after working hard on designing any and every possible bottleneck out of the thing.

It all sounds quite coherent… except for the fact that, between those start and end points, they have fully designed… and built… and sold from retail outlets, a new Mac Pro, such that, as we speak, it is on people’s desks doing work.  … In early 20*18*.

Are we to believe that the iMac Pro was designed and built over a couple of weekends, using high-end parts thrown together, randomly and without even a hint of optimisation… and built, and sold?

The bottom line seems to be that it takes Apple *** 2 years *** !!! to work out how to make a machine modular, even though they themselves have already built more than one.  …As in, over and above all the other work involved in designing and building an [i]Mac Pro.