You'd buy a "Mac Pro", and in the box would be the (very elegant, Apple-y) rack, one "compute core module" to slot into it, and one "storage module" as well (which is your boot device, making the compute-core diskless and so a commodity.) You could customize your order to get a RAID storage module instead. except it's in the form-factor of a server blade, and is sitting in a rack roughly the size of a workstation PC. Imagine a small "compute core" just like the trashcan Mac Pro (CPUs + RAM + GPUs, replace it all at once when the time comes). I feel like Apple was onto something here, but they screwed up by trying to scale up the mobile paradigm (black boxes connected by cables) when there's a very similar paradigm much friendlier to professional use-the server rack-mount paradigm-that they could just scale down. I want an excellent case I can pack full of RAM, disks and GPUs, not external expansion with $70 cables that glitch and mess up the aesthetic in the process.
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