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The Mac Pro Is Getting a Major Do-Over (mashable.com)
Apple is moving away from the current, cylinder-shaped design used on its Mac Pro desktop, but that replacement will take until next year to hit shelves. From a report: "The Mac Pro, the current vintage that we introduced, we wanted to do something bold and different. In retrospect, it didn't well suit some of the people we wanted to reach," admitted Apple SVP Craig Federighi. "So many of our customers were moving to iMac that we saw a path to address to many, many more of those people," he added. "With the current generation Mac Pro, which some customers love, others may not, one of the things that's certainly clear and true about that is the team tried to do something different, something bold and we always want to encourage the Mac team that whatever products you make, that make customers happy, that we do bold work. Because the Mac's always been about that. It's been about not being conventional thinking, not me-too-stuff," said Phil Schiller. [...] While we'll have to wait until 2018 for the Mac Pro rebirth ("Want to do something great... that will take longer than this year to do," said Schiller), iMac fans can expect a significant update this year, including some new configurations designed specifically for Pro users who already fans of the all-in-one design. [...] Schiller was somewhat less emphatic when I asked if he was willing to make any "courageous" decisions about Mac Pro ports. I thought I saw a little discomfort flicker across Schiller's face as he reacted to that word and he told me that Apple wasn't making promises about ports on the Mac Pro. Port decisions, he said, are made at a product level. "Just because on one product we removed something, doesn't mean we're going to remove it elsewhere," he told me. More on this here.
The term 'vintage' comes from winemaking and refers to wine made from a particular harvest of grapes. Usually vintage is indicated with a year number corresponding to the harvest year. It's basically like a software version number, but for wine.
I think that's what was meant in this case, to differentiate this latest style of MacPro from earlier and future styles.
You're thinking of a corruption of the term 'vintage' commonly used by Millennials/hipsters, where it is wronly assumed to mean 'old' or 'antique'. That usage is incorrect.
" it didn't well suit some of the people we wanted to reach," admitted Apple SVP Craig Federighi. "
That is totally PR speak for "WE F'D THE POOCH OVER A CHAIR.
I had a sucky sig.