[X4U] New Mac Pro

[Zane H. Healy]

At 11:12 AM -0700 6/12/13, cat wrote:
>OK..I have neither the dough or the need, but that new Mac Pro is *COOL*
>
>maybe..in a few years, I'll have one on my desk...

I have a need for greater than 24Gb of RAM (how much my late 2010 Mac 
Pro currently has), and I need LOTS of disk space.  There is no 
indication on how much the new Mac Pro costs, or what RAM for it will 
cost, BUT, even a Thunderbolt Array that gives me as much capacity as 
my current Mac Pro is *EXPENSIVE*.  Who knows what a Thunderbolt 2 
array will cost, or when they'll be available.  There are also no 
expansion slots, and I've used the expansion slots in every Mac I've 
owned except the Powerbook 520c.  Right now I have 4 internal drives, 
2 external eSATA drives, and a Drobo.  Having moved to a 36MP Nikon 
D800 I find myself chewing through disk space like crazy.

Since leaving the PC and except for my first Mac (PowerBook 520c), 
I've gone with the high end systems; PowerMac 8500/180, original 
G4/450, original dual 2Ghz G5 PowerMac, and now late-2010 Mac Pro. 
I'd planned to replace my existing system with a Mac Pro when the 
time comes.  Now, I fear I'll be forced to either go with a low-end 
Mac, or go PC. >:-(  Apple might want to consider that thanks to the 
Adobe Creative Cloud, Adobe users like myself have more flexibility 
to switch between Mac and PC.

Zane



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