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Apple’s relentless pursuit of the unified garden finally prevailed for the portable devices, but it’s still a non-starter for workstations.

You obviously have never really used a Mac. My Mac Pro workstation with Xeon processor runs nine different Operating Systems, sometimes simultaneously. . . including UNIX (the Mac IS a UNIX based computer), macOS 13 High Sierra, iOS 11, Microsoft Windows 10, Microsoft Windows 8.1, and Microsoft Windows 7, and three different flavors of Linux. . . all operating in windows of the macOS system as hardware virtual machines. In addition I have software emulations of AmigaOS, AtariOS, and Commodore C=64/128, plus a very efficient OS called THEOS that used to run all the workstations in our office, all of which run quite well. A Mac can run far more software than any Windows box. . . Because it is natively UNIX, and designed from the ground up to be multi-user and multi-OS.

The Mac is by no means a "walled garden," in either hardware or software. That’s a myth. It has not been for almost two decades.

I’m seriously considering upgrading to this when it comes out next month.

iMac Pro Workstation:

Intel Xeon Processor with 8, 12, or 18 core, TurboBoost to 4.5GHz, with up to a 42MB cache,
32GB, 64GB, or 128GB 2666MHz ECC Memory,
5K (5120 X 2880 pixels) 27" monitor at 500 nits, billions of colors wide P3 gamut,
Supports two additional similar 5K external displays at billions of colors, or
Supports four 4K (3860 X 2260 pixel) at 1 billion colors,
Supports four 4K (4096 X 2304 pixel) at millions of colors,
1080P FaceTime camera,
Four microphones
Stereo Speakers
Nbase-T Ethernet supports 1Gb, 2.5Gb, 5Gb, and 10Gb/sec Ethernet
1TB, 2TB, or 4TB SSD,
Radeon Pro Vega 56 or 64 graphics processor with 8GB or 16 GB of HBM2 memory,
11 teraflops – single precision, 22 teraflops – half precision,
400GB/s memory bandwidth.
Four Thunderbolt 3 (USB 3) ports.
Four USB 3 ports.
SDXC Card slot with support for UHS-II.
3.5mm headphone/audio-out port
802.11ac WIFI Wireless Networking, 802.11a/b/g/n compatible.
Bluetooth 4.2 Wireless Technology.
Wireless keyboard w/ tenkeypad.
Wireless Magic Mouse.

You still think Apple is a non-starter in Workstations?