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They could come up with a new connector for thunderbolt plus enough power for a GTX 1080. Not sure if those are two things you'd want in the same cable... The main roadblock to elegance in a truly modular system is power requirements. The big ol' towers had 1000 watt PSUs that took up almost a quarter of the useable volume.
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I know, it prob wont.... but...
Imagine if they had a clever way of hiding connections? And power could go via the connection so you'd only need one PSU/Power cable. Think a tower half way between the Mac mini and Mac Pro, with the GPU being the additional bit, maybe thats not quite right either, but im not sure they will go fully modular.
The problem with the current Mac Pro is the GPU's, Apple took a gamble of workflows favouring dual GPU's, GPU makes decided to go single big hot hungry GPU route (hence SLI being less of a thing). The thermal design of the current MP didn't allow for such GPUS...