My issue with the lackluster update is that I purchase a computer to last me ~5 years. The last mac pro I purchased was the octocore mac pro. I use it to run Logic, Reason and associated plugins, and find I can comfortably run 24-48 track projects quite easily so I havent really felt a pinch to upgrade. I have 16GB ram and 4 TB of disk space in it, so I think it still exceeds what most desktop/laptops are capable of to this day. Back to the point, since I want my purchase to last, it better have the current state of the art on the day of purchase so that accessories and upgrades are easily added.
I think the current Mac Pros are probably for customers like my last job, a medical school neuroscience lab that used Mac Pros to run the experiments at the five experiment rigs. If one of those Mac Pros needs to be replaced, something roughly equivalent would suffice - there's no pressing need for thunderbolt or USB 3, the goal is simply to replace the hardware ASAP and have a functional rig for doing the work.
>I use it to run Logic, Reason and associated plugins, and find I can comfortably run 24-48 track projects quite easily so I havent really felt a pinch to upgrade.
24-48 track projects? With slight "freeze" of some heavy reverbs and such, you could probably run those on a Dual Core MacBook Pro.
Absolutely, I have tons of headroom for more. However, just because I can means I should :) Amplitube usually is the biggest CPU drain I use, and I dont really freeze tracks that often.
