[Andrew Richards] "That's true, but I suspect Apple more than anyone has drunk the Thunderbolt Kool-aid and imagines slots are already obsolete today. If we actually get 100Gb Thunderbolt, then maybe for almost all practical purposes they are. But today? Hardly. So if we think about the USP of a Mac Pro, and we drop dual CPUs and slots (assuming an overly-optimistic Thunderbolt bias at Apple), there isn't much USP left to separate it from an iMac."
Sure. It's a Mac Mini with a more powerful CPU at that point. (And actually, the Mac Mini is starting to be a pretty plausible machine for an edit suite... if this year's Mini lineup includes a machine with both a quad core CPU and dedicated graphics -- unlike the current lineup that makes you choose -- we're probably going to try building a couple of offline suites around them.)
Personally, as I said in the other thread, I'd lay 80% odds on at least one more Mac Pro. After that, who knows?
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