Re: WWDC 2012: No New Mac Pro

[Laco Gaal] "We just have to wait some more to get the refreshed ones with Thunderbolt, usb3, etc.etc."

Don't think so.

Thunderbolt is not a stick-on technology, its a motherboard thing, and there would have to be some serious re-thinks on the part of the Apple establishment to make the changes in the MacPro chassis that would make it worthwhile -- and what we would wind up with is the same path that lead to FCX.

Thunderbolt is not an advantage when there is Fibre and SAS -- even eSATA, especially if you are only working with ProRes bitrate densities. I cannot see Apple opening up or expanding the PCIe slot architecture, and that is what users like us really need.

MacPro is dead to me, Final Cut is frozen, until X becomes FCP8, which appears to be where it's headed, finally, after it re-evolves through the five steps of grief.

jPo

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