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| Your call Rob, but when I've faced these now-or-later decisions (as opposed to the I-need-it-now-for-this-job decisions), I've found the Macrumors buyer's guide to be helpful and fairly accurate in its predictions. Check it out: http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/#Mac_Pro Summary: Recommendation- Don't Buy - Updates soon Last Release- July 27, 2010 Days Since Update- 521 (Avg = 348) And see the supporting rumors/announcements. Who knows what Apple's going to do, but seems like it might be worth finding another outlet for your EOY money. Maybe a Jura coffee machine? http://www.us.jura.com/home_us_x.htm Jim "more of a French-press (and decaf) guy" Feeley On Dec 30, 2011, at 8:43 AM, Rob Birnholz wrote: > It's the last day of the year I can spend $$ to deplete the company bank account. I'd like to upgrade the old 8-core MacPro 2.1 to something more contemporary with a modern graphics card (not that my current mac still isn't great -- it is). Question is should I go for a current MacPro, or keep the cash (and pay taxes) and wait to see what the near future brings regarding Apple's pro line. > > Advice? Opinions? Predictions? > > Thanks, > > Rob Birnholz > Absolute Motion Graphics, Inc. > www.absolutemotiongraphics.com > Author of Pro Training for the After Effects Camera > http://tinyurl.com/lf89t3 > > > +---End of message---+ > To unsubscribe send any message to <ae-list-off@media-motion.tv> |
