<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Nov 1, 2011, at 10:33 AM, Zane H. Healy wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">What Apple needs to do is bring out a new desktop that can use standard desktop CPU's, and support a boatload of RAM and drives. Very, very few people need the CPU power of a current Mac Pro.</span></blockquote></div><br><div><br></div><div>interesting...reason I flipped for a Mac Pro in 2009 was for 3D rendering I do. maybe I'm an odd duck. most of the stuff I had been doing seemed to go well on a 2005 G4 Mini, even though that was getting long in the tooth.</div><div><br></div><div>well, as long as the macs of tomorrow can cut the wood I need cut, I don't care if it's a mini, an iMac or an ipad..really...</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></body></html>