Apple's New Mac Pro Gets High Repairability Score

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday December 31, 2013 @07:04AM from the less-filling-tastes-great dept.

iFixit has posted a teardown of Apple's new soda-can-shaped Mac Pro. Despite the unusual form factor, it earned a relatively high repairability score: 8/10. iFixit said, "For being so compact, the design is surprisingly modular and easy to disassemble. Non-proprietary Torx screws are used throughout, and several components can be replaced independently." They say it's easy to access the fan and the RAM slots, and while the CPU is buried a bit more deeply, it's still user-replaceable. The Mac Pro doesn't get higher than an 8 because its uses some proprietary connectors and the cable routing is cramped. They add, "There is no room, or available port, for adding your own internal storage. Apple has addressed this with heaps of Thunderbolt, but we'd personally rather use the more widely compatible SATA if we could."

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Thunderbolt by ThorGod · 2013-12-31 07:06 · Score: 5, Insightful

Methinks if you can afford the new Mac Pro that you're not at all concerned about Thunderbolt vs SATA.

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Re:Still like to have more then 1 port in side the by Anonymous Coward · 2013-12-31 07:19 · Score: 5, Insightful

Actually, 256GB base makes perfect sense for a pro system –most of these guys are editing huge videos stored on SANs, there's no hope of storing them locally. All they need locally is their OS, and some very fast scratch space.