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We also call them "trashcans" in conversation. It's an identifiable and memorable term, rather than "mac pro (original/2006)", "mac pro (cylinder/2013)" or "mac

• grenoire 7y ago
  Cheese grater will definitely stick just like trashcan. Both highly utilitarian tools, mind you.
  • that_jojo 7y ago
    Am I old? Everyone's talking about whether this new 'cheese grater' name will take off. But that's what we called the old aluminum case since the G5.
• theandrewbailey 7y ago
  Didn't the original Mac Pro look like a cheese grater, too?
  • dmix 7y ago
    It had a mesh in the pre trash can version but the new one looks far more like a grater with spaced holes and an indented piece of metal that looks like the blade. https://icdn2.digitaltrends.com/image/digitaltrends/mac-pro-2019-hands-on-10.jpg https://icdn2.digitaltrends.com/image/digitaltrends/mac-pro-... https://blog.macsales.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/prod_applemacpro2010.jpg https://blog.macsales.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/prod_ap...
    • monocasa 7y ago
      Sure, but for more than a decade the original aluminum tower was called the cheese grater.