Re: Does This Kill The Mac Pro?

I think I should have done a better job phrasing my question.

Apple states that in early 2012 they will add what they refer to as Broadcast Quality Video Monitoring. Blackmagic's Ultrastudio 3D (and others like it) will provide iMac FCP X users with video monitoring.

So is Apple's thinking that the current (and future) high end iMacs will have enough CPU, GPU and RAM they need? While Thunderbolt provides, video monitoring, video capture and storage.

The GPU in the current iMac comes fairly close to the best graphics card in a Mac Pro, even for Motion.

http://barefeats.com/wst10g12.html

So the question I was thinking (but did a poor job posting) is whether video monitoring Thunderbolt products (or FCP X support for) are all the Apple is waiting on to finally end of life the Mac Pro?

They might feel that works for Apple's products, even Motion. It won't work for people who also use products like Premiere Pro, since it needs a CUDA engine. But, that's not an Apple product.

As a Mac Pro user, I don't like thinking about this. But, I do wonder why the Mac Pro is still around, even though it has not been refreshed in quite a while.