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I feel you man. I've been stubbornly sticking to Snow Leopard myself, it works great with my late 2008 MBP.

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I'm also holding out for a Mac Pro bump that isn't a pisstake. So I guess I'll bite a few bullets at once.

Don't hold your breath -- I felt the same way about xserve before Apple shocked us with the axing of the server line.

I am certainly concerned that they might give it the official arse.

The only thing that gives me hope is that the Pro fits a small but important niche in the overall ecosystem: a system better suited for the developers of iOS applications than the iMac is.

What does the Mac Pro offer for iOS developers that the iMac does not?

More. Of everything.

More cores, more RAM, more GPU grunt to drive more screens.

The initial version of ML was terrible on my 2008 MBP but they made performance enhancements and now 10.8.2 works fine. Spending $50 for gb/RAM didn't hurt of course (best investment of my life btw).

You must not have an SSD yet. I highly recommend them.

I'll second that. I put an SSD into a 'poor performing' laptop as a stop gap before buying a new laptop. I still haven't bought that new laptop 2 years later.

I used an SSD to breathe a second life into the late '08 iMac I'm typing this on.

Yeah I was checking them out when I was getting my RAM, I'm just on the fence on how long I want to keep this computer.

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