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Apple wowed its 2019 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) crowd in San Jose on Monday when it unveiled a glorious new Mac Pro stuffed with top-tier hardware specs such as a 28-core Intel Xeon processor and an Afterburner movie-editing graphics card. But looking at the new machine made some observers hungry. Yeah, it totally looks like a cheese grater.
Twitter was quick to welcome the shiny silver design with the handles on top. “Love the new Mac Pro design,” wrote Harm Holting along with a photo of a classic box-style cheese grater.
Naturally, this must lead to a pun.
Twitter user unōrsk would have liked to see Apple stick with its famous “i” branding and just call it the “iGrater.”
While most people had dairy products on the mind, Nice Fi Wah thought the Mac Pro was hot, hot, hot like a radiator.
WWDC focuses on the nerdier side of Apple’s endeavors and is the usual launchpad for new operating system updates, app advancements and the occasional piece of hardware. We expected to hear about the new Mac Pro; we just didn’t realize it would look like a kitchen tool.
But, hey, it’s still a big step up from the previous cylindrical Mac Pro design, which looked for all the world like a trash can.
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