Apple today announced the new Mac Pro, giving users a preview of what is to be expected when the unit ships later this year. It is a departure from convention in terms of design, which should come as no shock to long term Apple fans, who are used to Apple making these bold design statements.

Apple have sometime been ahead of the curve when it comes to guessing the future of product development, two examples are being the first company to drop the use of floppy disk drives and also creating a laptop (the MacBook Air) without any optical drive. At the time, both ideas were seen in many quarters as odd, only to see the rest of the industry follow later.

However, the idea of a circular design that does not allow for conventional pro expansion remains to be seen, with many early responses criticising the new design. What do you think, is this genius or madness? Are some of us simply slaves to conventional PCI based card slots when the future is via options like Thunderbolt and USB3? Discuss…

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