I think you are right sadly, they seem to be placing the MacOs range firmly in the lifestyle make it look slick market and abandoning their power user market. The Mac Pro has not been properly updated for 4 years? and the current one is very much form over function with little way to tailor it to your uses. The iMac has gone down the line of how thin and pretty can we make it that people have reported issues with thermal throttling, not that I am keen on it from a being wasteful of a good screen when it dies point of view, again its a good while since it was upgraded. The mini is too constrained with non changeable ram and using laptop cpu's. I cam understand them putting most effort into laptops as that is where the money is, though the new "pro" is to my mind anything but. I wonder how many people it would take them to keep the desktop lines fairly up to date, Im sure a good while ago they were one of the first to announce machines with new Intel chips. Would it just be a case of having someone keep up with cpu changes so they can just swap them over when they get updated with the exception of times when the socket changes? I was going to but a MacPro until I saw the new one, I wanted to have the ability to put a couple of large capacity hard drives in their and run backups to NAS boxes, not have a load more wires hanging out of it like the last iMac I had (that died wasting a very nice screen). I am beginning to feel tempted by a windows machine, less worry about upgrading the box use any GPU I want and so on. But I work well with Mac Os, I have used it since Photoshop 2 and it is instinctive, I don't need to think where is x on it which I do when using Windows, not that there has been anything wrong with it since Win 7. It feels to me that people like myself and other artists/creatives are being totally ignored by Ive and crew, but it is the same group of us that gave Mac its cool factor and if they still made a machine properly for us would be still there when all the iPhone fans have gone. Dell have announced a 27" graphics tablet that is very similar to being a PC less Surface pro, the Win manufacturers it seems are courting the visual artist. If they can not be bothered making good hardware that they damn well can do as they did it in the past, maybe they should hive off that section to be a separate organisation or release the OS as a stand alone with a list of approved hardware and let others build them. They could have strict agreements on things not looking like a dogs dinner, minimum build standards etc but the Os is too good a thing to lose if their priorities are elsewhere.
