Speaking of writing on the wall…

Which means the next MacBook Pro updates will also likely eliminate them (so that Apple can slim them down even more). As for the iMac, what they decide to do will be interesting. As for the Mac Pro, I wonder how much longer that will exist with Thunderbolt being released across the line. This reduces one of the key selling points of the Mac Pro (expansion capabilities) except for a very small segment of its demographic who need lots of I/O bandwidth. Also, when you see this mini server image below hooked up to a Thunderbolt RAID system, that also reduces another one of the Mac Pro’s key selling points; internal storage capabilities. The following takes up less space than a Mac Pro and if Apple would just double the height of the mini, could utilize a higher end processor….

I dunno, but I think my current 2010 6-core Mac Pro will be the last one like it that I’ll be owning because by the time I’ll need to upgrade, I can probably make do with something like the above (or whatever Apple may have in the 2014 time frame). And because the title of this post is “speaking of writing on the wall….”, some of Apple’s recent moves does not portend well for this particular market; meaning if I’m correct reading between the lines as well as the tea leaves, the Mac Pro may end up disappearing all together just like the optical drive is on Apple’s desktop/portable hardware.