Mac Pro

Apple is currently hard at work on a “completely rethought” Mac Pro, with a modular design that can accommodate high-end CPUs and big honking hot-running GPUs, and which should make it easier for Apple to update with new components on a regular basis. They’re also working on Apple-branded pro displays to go with them – Daring Fireball

1. I think they originally wanted to go for iMac Pro’s and forget the Mac Pro all together. But they were impressed/got scared by the “Apple doesn’t care about pro’s backlash” they got after the MacBook Pro with Touchbar keynote? It can’t have taken them three years to realize they needed to reboot the Mac Pro and have nothing to show yet, can it?
2. As far as those new displays go: LG screwed up the 5K displays so Apple’s taking matters back into their own hands. Also: sometimes wishes come true?
3. I think the speed bumps are more a matter of: we can’t make the old ones anymore due to lack of parts than Apple wanting to update it right now. And this “controlled leak” about the upcoming reboot is to prevent any major backlash that would have occurred if they would’ve just speedbumped the trashcan without any context.

Either way this entire story reads more as: we’ve only just begun course correcting the Pro line after the Touchbar-backlash than something that has been in the works for a long time now.