Mac Pro??

[Steve Connor]

I would say that Thunderbolt is guaranteed to be on the new Professional Mac

Steve Connor
‘It’s just my opinion, with an occasional fact thrown in for good measure”

[Marcus Moore]

Agreed. They won’t be releasing a new MacPro without Thunderbolt.

[Dan Stewart]

Just like they would never release a new FCP without a client monitor, XML or tracks..

[Steve Connor]

Funny

Steve Connor
‘It’s just my opinion, with an occasional fact thrown in for good measure”

[Tom Sefton]

Hardware choices for Mac at the moment seem poor value aside from the macbook pro retinas. You could build a stonkingly fast PC system with a new 2k resolution HP monitor for less than a top of the range iMac and then be able to upgrade it for the next 5 years of its life….

[Steve Connor]

I believe this may have been mentioned before on this forum

Steve Connor
‘It’s just my opinion, with an occasional fact thrown in for good measure”

[Marcus Moore]

Software can be updated (and has been (for free), to include those features- except tracks, which isn’t a feature but a methodology). Hardware cannot (ok, sure internal components can, but not a zero cost to the user).

[Marcus Moore]

I can buy the wood and build a chair for less money than I could go out an buy one at a furniture store, but I’m not interested in being a carpenter.

I hear the $$$ sentiment all the time, but I’ve never seen anyone who’s been able to provide side-by-side specs on a Mac equivalent that’s VASTLY cheaper. Maybe a few hundred dollars on a several thousand dollar machine. But that savings just isn’t worth it to me for the time I’d have to invest. I make enough money to upgrade every couple of years. And then it’s not like I toss my old Macs away, they’ve had great resale values. So I think the question of cost is a lot more cloudy (and not as far apart) that some might imagine.

[Sohrab Sandhu]

[Marcus Moore] ” I make enough money to upgrade every couple of years.”

The question is not whether you make enough to upgrade, its about having a choice to upgrade.

So you sell a 2010 MacPro in 2012 and buy a new one, how different is it? Can it be really termed as an upgrade?

Sohrab

FCS 3 & Adobe PPro
AJA Kona Lhi, Mac Pro 2 X 2.66 Ghz Quad Core
Flanders Scientific LM-1760W

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[Craig Seeman]

[Sohrab Sandhu] “So you sell a 2010 MacPro in 2012 and buy a new one, how different is it? Can it be really termed as an upgrade?”

Change the buy date to 2013 it probably will be. You’re talking about an EOL computer. In any other two year period the hardware differences are often considerable. And the MacPro you buy in 2013 might be replaced in 2015 with optical Thunderbolt for example.