Re: The Fog Thickens

[Chris Harlan] "I'm more cynical than you are. My guess is that they just don't want to be pegged down about anything, ever. They kept Shake alive years even though they had internally killed it, simply to have that option. Mac Pro is the same thing."

The Sandy Bridge E5 Xeons are new enough that Apple's lack of a Mac Pro update doesn't really mean anything either way yet. Especially since Intel sometimes formally "ships" a processor well before it's actually available in quantities useful to OEMs.

I'd put the odds of there being at least one more Mac Pro revision at 80%. After that, who knows. If the next Xeon update after this one isn't for another two years, the number of customers who still need Mac Pros at that point -- with on-board GPUs on iMacs and Minis being that much more powerful and a much more mature ecosystem around Thunderbolt -- will probably be substantially smaller than it is today. And it's already pretty small.

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