Originally Posted by
piper28
Hmm, I have to be honest, nice looking wasn't really my first thought. The first picture I saw of it my first reaction was along the lines of "why would anyone make a computer look like a trash can?" Now that I've seen a few more shots, I'd change trash can to ash tray. The old Mac Pro wasn't stylish, but I'm not overly convinced that most people that choose a Mac Pro really feel that it *needs* to be overly stylish.
Originally Posted by
javabytes
I think it's a poor move. It's a ridiculous form factor for a product line that was supposed to be Apple's bastion of expandability.
If you read the release notes carefully, you'll realize that there is a major functional reason for the design, which has NOTHING to do with being an "overly stylish" form factor.