Re: [Fed-Talk] Predicting the end of the Mac Pro
Re: [Fed-Talk] Predicting the end of the Mac Pro
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Predicting the end of the Mac Pro
- From: "Villano, Paul Mr CIV USA TRADOC" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2011 07:32:31 -0400
- Priority: normal
Look on the bright side. They can always be used as heat generators. :o)
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From: Todd Heberlein <email@hidden>
Date: Wednesday, November 2, 2011 23:30
Subject: [Fed-Talk] Predicting the end of the Mac Pro
To: email@hidden
> 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
> http://www.marco.org/2011/11/02/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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