said by mbernste:said by Octavean:Also, I'll ask if you have any plans to upgrade your monitors to 4K monitors? If not what specific work did you have in mind for your new Mac Pro?
I bought the 27" Thunderbolt when I ordered the Mac Pro. I thought about a 4K monitor, but they were not only too big for my work area (even the 27" is a tad large) they were outside of what my wallet would let me do. I plan on using the Pro for video and photo editing, some game playing and general computing (I admit that's a broad term). I believe in getting a seemingly overpowered computer because it pushes off obsolescence. I generally get a new desktop every 5-7 years. The Dell XPS 710 that it replaced I got in 2007 and it had an extravagant 4 GB of RAM (rare back then), 1.7 TB of storage (in an era when 500 GB was considered large), a video card with 750 MB of video RAM and dual DVD drives. In a few years we'll be saying "it only has 64 GB of RAM and 1 TB of SSD storage?"
Given that Intel has seemingly traded the pursuit of pure performance in favor of efficiency (even on desktop processors) which chiefly benefits the mobile market, I think more and more of us can now comfortably adopt your 5 to 7 year upgrade cycle.
Monitors are a different sort of story though for such desktop systems so I'll add that I just ordered a Samsung U28D590D 28" 4K 3840x2160 60Hz capable monitor off of Amazon last night at the MSRP of ~$699 shipped. Most retailers were inflating the price of this monitor by about $160 USD so when I finally came across an unadulterated price I jumped on it.
I'm sure Apple will do a batter job of their eventual 4K offering (might be over engineered a bit) but I'm sure the price will far exceed $699 too and as you said that could be "outside of what my wallet would let me do",.....
I don't know when Apple will update the Mac Pro again but I'm really curious to see what they will do once the Intel Haswell-E LGA2011-3 / X99 platform is released.