So how do you actually use this thing?
I'm looking at the purchase of a major computational workhorse in the near future. I've been holding off for a while, hoping that the new pro would be announced and that I could plug it in easily to the Mac heavy environment that I have going already. Now that it has been introduced, with all of its "inovation", I'm not exactly sure how it's supposed to work for my intended purpose.
I need something that can run software that reconstructs 3D movies from image stacks, constructs objects within the movies and tracks them over time (Bitplane, for those interested in that sort of thing). In a past life, I ran this with great success on a suped up Mac pro. From what I've read, the new version should run the software nicely (I assume better than the old pro), but there definitely wont be enough internal storage, which means that I'm relying on external TB2 drives, which no-one currently makes. Any upgrades to memory, video card (will I need this) etc will similarly depend on TB2 external versions, which don't exist.
Am I reading this right? To be actually functional, I'm going to have to wait additional months for third parties to start building the externals. I was really hoping that this was going to be something I could rack mount and connect some OWC drives to, but they don't seem to be in a rush to jump onto TB any time soon. I can't wait too much longer, so I may have to switch to a PC for this.