Don’t feel sorry for myself just angry that Apple are writing off a perfectly good machine. Old architecture or not and although they are switching to a new platform it matters little. I have been around long enough to understand the speed of change but this is just a way to get you to buy more. Especially as it would seem that FCP7 upgrades are all universal.
With this in mind it is just lack of support. Which means that the machines are not out of date. A 4 year old edit suite is not really in need of changing. It can edit 4K red stuff at roughly the same speed as my other edit suite with a decent drive. Making computers obsolete is not a good way forward for anyone except apple. I think what you misunderstand about me is not my need to upgrade have now gotten FCP7 running on the Quad it is that apple are so ready to destroy machines. Makes me feel like PC is a better option in the long run.