[chucker]

It depends on how they position it.

Does the Mac Pro only exist because of internal expansion? Then they can give it the M1X and argue that it's not only plenty fast, but also internally expandable. I would personally appreciate the symmetry that would finally bring to the line-up: the Mac Pro is the non-laptop version of the MacBook Pro.

But right now, it very much isn't that. The Mac Pro isn't just internally expandable, but also fantastic if you do heavily multithreaded work (which almost nobody does), and it can do that by virtue of having giant chips and a giant cooling system.

Does Apple want to do the 2019 Mac Pro as a one-off and go back to more of a Mac midi, like the 2013 Mac Pro? I… don't see that going over well.