Because those who need Mac Pros will always need Mac Pros, I don’t think we’ll see a significant drop in their pricing. But we should see a large increase in performance, if the machine is to justify its top spot in the Macintosh product matrix.
As for me, well, for the first time in my Mac-using history, I’m contemplating an iMac as my next Mac—the Core i7 looks to be exactly what I want (other than the glossy screen, of course, but I can work around that problem). I don’t need expansion slots (they sit empty in my Mac Pro), I don’t need 32GB of RAM, and I don’t need four drive bays. I do need speed, though, and the Core i7 iMac seems to have lots of that to go around.
