[Fed-Talk] Predicting the end of the Mac Pro
[Fed-Talk] Predicting the end of the Mac Pro
- Subject: [Fed-Talk] Predicting the end of the Mac Pro
- From: Todd Heberlein <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2011 20:29:37 -0700
A well written and well reasoned piece that left me just a little melancholy. I suspect in 2 years time the top of the line iMac with Thunderbolt expansion will have everything I need, but I will miss the tower.
Todd
Scaling down the Mac Pro
But I think it’s clear, especially looking at Thunderbolt’s development recently, that Apple is in the middle of a transition away from needing the Mac Pro.
Fewer customers will choose Mac Pros as time goes on. Once that level drops below Apple’s threshold for viability or needing to care, the line will be discontinued.
I bet that time will be about two years from now: enough time for Apple to release one more generation with Thunderbolt and the new Sandy Bridge-based Xeon E5 CPUs in early 2012, giving the Mac Pro a full lifecycle to become even more irrelevant before they’re quietly removed from sale.
A few power users will complain, but most won’t care: by that time, most former Mac Pro customers will have already switched away.
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