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chas_m
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I do not hate the new Mac Pro but like many like the older design better for a pro machine.
And yes the new one can also be upgraded. The CPU's, Graphics Cards and the RAM and the PCI-E drives also but that might be proprietary.
I'm not anti-slab Mac Pros. I'm not pro-Italian trashcan 2013 Mac Pro. I'm just passing on some facts -- those twin graphics cards are awesome.
For the record, the processor in the latest Mac Pro is swappable, as are the drives -- but the graphics cards are custom and so not really swappable (I could be wrong about this now, but at the time they were not).
I am not sure if the 2010 Mac Pro's processor is upgradable or not, but nearly everything else is. I think some people like the Slab Macs *because they are big and heavy and look fearsomely powerful* -- ie they look like expensive pro machines, and in their minds the Italian Trashcan does not, even though it is in fact more powerful. I like to call this "G4 Cube Syndrome," and that's very much a part of why the G4 Cube didn't do better (but those who had one tended to LOVE IT).