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OH GAWD PLEASE.
5/7 would bang.
(I was thinking the same but didn't dare say it as that would be too good to be true).
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It won't happen. The trashcan Pro was kind-of that... a compact compute box with no user upgradeable parts built for an age of expansion boxes and multi GPUs that never came.
Imagine all the cables if they did this with the mini... Power supplies for each tier plus thunderbolt. If you had three pieces, it would get ridiculous.
Realistically, they need to just bring back a revised, standard tower. Loads of SATA and m.2 slots, as many Xeons as they can cram in, tons of RAM and lots of space for full-length cards.
They can still cover the thing in thunderbolt ports if they think that's what people want.
I almost think they redesigned the Mac Pro to take up less shipping space... The boxes for the cheesegraters were about the size of a fridge.
If they based a new tower on 2.5" drives instead of 3.5, then they could make the thing quite small and light yet still have plenty of space for PCI-E and airflow.Maybe the Mini will get Covfefe Lake and a price increase.
Well_is_it
They've recently said something about the Mac Mini still having a future as well as the next Mac Pro coming at some point... I bet they semi-merge the lines.
The Mac Pro will be a combination of a i9 Mini with eGPU or if you just need a Mini, you can get that section with anything from an i3 to an i9 and whatever storage/memory config that fits the budget.
i3, 8GB RAM, 256m.2 from £499
i5 from £699
i7 from £999
i9 (or Xeon?) from £1600?
eGPU "Pro Module" with two options each for Nvidia and AMD, consumer and workstation options, standard form factor, user upgradeable.
Plus two m.2 slots.