Re: Is the Mac Pro Dead?

I'm betting on this "iMac Pro" packaging direction as well. There seemed to be alot of interest in the similar-looking HP product shown at Intel's NAB booth last month.

If they limit the external I/O connectivity to Thunderbolt on any new professional workstation product, Apple will lose alot of the people who kept them in business for years when they should have gone under (1990s). They could be successful by unleashing an iMac Pro model featuring a dual Xeon, capacity for lots of RAM and disk storage, integrated Quadro 4000 GUI card, an open (and accessible) 16-channel PCIe slot, plus a couple of Thunderbolt ports.

If their intention was to kill off professional market interest in OSX, it would have been far more apparent to everyone by now.