[jyl]

Thank goodness.

I didn't like the cylinder Mac Pro. A pro desktop should be roomy for additional cards and drives. The previous Mac Pro was a beautiful and functional machine.

Intel has been advancing its server (Xeon) processors and now has Optane memory that, while very expensive, is a real advance.

However, the real action in server processors is ARM-based processors that are massively multi core (64 cores etc) to handle high volumes of independent threads with low power consumption, for cloud datacenter applications. Intel has not much going on there.