We, like you Peter, suffered from being an island in our market and hoped for the CS4 environment to mature on Vista 64 and AXIO. After a good 3 year experiment we are ready to be assimiliate into the MAC and FCP nation.
We got our first MACPRO a week ago and after the initial shock of having new product announced only a few days after we took delivery there are no regrets.
We went with a KONA LHe to start. We plan to add 3-5 more systems over the next months and will go with the KONA solution (whatever NAB brings) and the midrange processors with 12 GB of RAM on the MACPROS. CalDIGIT RAID cards and 4 internal SATA drives plus Dell 24″ monitors will flesh the systems out.
We plan to run CS4 and FCP Studio on all of the MACPROS.
As far as our AXIO machines go, we’ll keep 1-3 of them in service for a time and see how that works out.
Will keep you posted as the migration evolves.