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    Apple Notes

    Jul 06, 2017 3 minutes
    Column: Brad Watts

    It was all the way back in 2013 when we witnessed the debut of the last Mac Pro — unaffectionately dubbed the ‘trashcan’. Apple wrongly assumed the professional market would befriend Thunderbolt connection of countless peripherals: hard drives, monitors, and indeed, audio interfaces. There’s little you can improve upon when you own the 2013 Mac Pro. You can’t replace the GPUs, and additional storage has to remain external. They’re a closed system. Consequently, disenfranchised Mac professionals devised cunning upgrades for the previous aluminium bodied Mac Pros — for machines from

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