Amazing insides, slight pity about the lack of re-design, but not surprising.

What is it about the design?

IMHO, it's a classy looking piece of kit that you'd be proud to display on your desktop or nearby. Whenever I'm using one in a mixed office, people invariably are drawn to it - quizzically, perhaps even derisively at first, but then they are seduced by it. It's a great design.

You're right that the old design is solid, and why create something new when what we have is already good? It's just less seducing because we've seen it, human nature. Something new would've been more seducing purely because it's something we'd not seen.

I'm always struck by the size of the thing.

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coaten wrote:
What is it about the design?

IMHO, it's a classy looking piece of kit that you'd be proud to display on your desktop or nearby. Whenever I'm using one in a mixed office, people invariably are drawn to it - quizzically, perhaps even derisively at first, but then they are seduced by it. It's a great design.

I read a supposed interview with a 'leaker' the other day on another site, and while the comments made reveals it as hardly authentic, one thing said stuck with me as being likely. She said that the case of the Mac Pro would be the same because Apple considers the current look to be solid, and is well received by its customers. They wanted the case to convey the feeling that it is still a solid piece of hardware, in spite of the new processor, and give the feeling of continuity with past products. Future designs would be tweeked in the cosmetic department, but not the first Intel designs.

That thinking sounds as likely as any, and makes a lot of sense.

The interior design here is something else! Almost makes me regret buying a 17" iMac rather than one of these.

Almost.