A lot of pro audio users are doggedly sticking with the Mac Pro. Some of them don't want to lose billable hours by transitioning to Windows, others are locked i

A lot of pro audio users are doggedly sticking with the Mac Pro. Some of them don't want to lose billable hours by transitioning to Windows, others are locked in because of Logic Pro. Pretty much everyone I know uses a rackmount kit to turn the Mac Pro into something resembling a proper workstation, with a Thunderbolt RAID array next to it in the rack. It seems absurd to me that a "pro" computer costing as much as a decent used car needs third-party accessories to be usable as a professional tool. That cute little trash can turns into an 8u monster when it's properly specced out. The solution offered by Apple is to just daisy-chain everything off Thunderbolt, which is almost hilariously awful in practice. The supposed minimalism and elegance of the Mac Pro goes out of the window when there's a rat's nest of cabling hanging out of it. It turns out that PCIe slots and drive bays are a really neat way of expanding a computer. http://www.sonnettech.com/product/rackmacpro.html http://www.sonnettech.com/product/rackmacpro.html