Consumer tower to replace not complement Mac Pro?

Unlikely.....

 

i highly doubt it... but hey anything is possible with Apple!

 

We have no idea what the margins are. Apple are surely the biggest purchaser of 1600MHz FSB Xeons and are not paying the 1000 unit price Intel publish. Just because they are expensive doesn't mean that Apple would make more from a single socket desktop.

Going from 8 core systems to 4 core systems would be some what of a step backwards don't you think?

 

At first i"d say never......

but judging by what just happened today, and how apple just took the "pro" out of macbook pro, I'm beginning to think that the future of the mac pro isn't so good.

 

It'll be interesting to see what would be Prosumer would buy IF Apple launched a new range of Semi-MacPro and MacPro's, one aimed at home users wanting a desktop machine without all the server based bells and whistles, while the ProMac continues to be the hard-core Professional product aimed at creative pro's....

Though I'm guessing high school kids would still buy the MacPro over the Semi-MacPro, simply because they're not earning the money to pay for the hardware themselves.... Poor parents.

 

Again, wouldn't a semi-pro eat into iMac sales?

 

While I see a lot of people with MBP's who don't really need them, I rarely see people splurge on Mac Pro's.