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This will be great! I’ll have my money in hand, waiting for it to drop. The screen real-estate will be welcomed, but I hope that the keyboard will be better than the current one. Thank, God. Weight and size has never been an issue for me.

I don't think anyone is suggesting that this new Mac Pro should cost less than $2,000. It's fully expected to be the most expensive mac in the entire lineup. It also doesn't have to be twice the speed of the iMac Pro.  However, it needs to be modular and upgradeable.

I believe that Tallest Skill has is exactly right. Apple should make their top-of-the- line Mac their Halo-Mac. It should be upgradeable, expandable, and modular! It should be their technical tour-de-force, showing their Customers and the World, what they are capable of, and making it a Mac to aspire to. It doesn't matter if most people don't upgrade, or even if most Pros don't use the full capabilities of its best configuration! If a Pro,or demanding User needs/wants top of the line performance, needs to upgrade, or wants to extend and improve the useful life of their Mac, this particular Mac should allow it. Obviously, Apple will/should charge commensurately for it, and nobody expects it to cost what a mainstream iMac or other Mac would cost. This is not the machine to post the highest amount of sales, similarly, a Corvette, S-Class Mercedes, or Presidential Rolex isn't expected to be the sales-leader. Tallest Skill was right, in his reference to environmental concerns, too!  Not only would the User not need to buy another computer as often, it also could serve its buyer longer, and not need to be recycled as often. There is no harm in allowing the User/Buyer to upgrade RAM , CPU, Storage, Graphic-Card, Wi-Fi,mounting flexibility, etc.. For those that don't have these needs, Apple makes other models that are suitable for them. I realize that most people don't upgrade their machines much more than RAM and Storage.  I had the opportunity to go to Vendors that were making prototypes of Robots and other assembly processes for a Big Three Automaker during the 2006-2011 time-period. I was sure that I would see Macs displaying these simulations. I was really disappointed that so many P.C.'s were being used, and were working smoothly, and fluidly, without jerking and/or stuttering!  I asked the Cad/Designer/simulator people why they weren't using Macs, and they said that P.C.'s had caught up to Macs, were cheaper, had better Graphics Cards, and the Apple left them in the dark,as far as when/how/and what would be upgraded! I know that this was anecdotal, however i saw numerous companies' Cad/Cam setups, and saw hardly any Macs! I was very let-down and shocked, and felt that I had been mis-lead as far a the capabilities of P.C.'s in the real-world. "Pro-Users" stuck with Apple, and preached the gospel to any and everybody who would listen, and now that Apple has more money than they could've ever dreamed of, it's shameful for them to not support their most fervent Users; their influence and importance vastly out-weighs their actual numbers, in influence, sway, affect on buying decisions, and Apple's reputation. This is not an expense, it's an investment in the future and now!  

Tallest Skil, I was saying that we weren’t getting frequent notices of doom on Airport routers, I know they announced it. You made some excellent points about whether Apple really cares about what we think, whether they need to let us know what’s coming, and whether Banks have a bad track-record. Wall Street gives more value to Tesla, who isn’t making money and can’t get their production numbers up, than they do Ford and GM, who has earned Billions in profits. How can Amazon, Google, and Priceline’s stocks be worth 5-7 times as much as Apple, when Apple is making more money than could have been imagined?