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How about the entire graphic design industry? Finally a 'headless iMac' with balls. The MacPro allows me to attach my EIZO monitors. The iMac screens are consumer-quality, really. If you're looking for high quality screens (and OSX), the MacPro is the best. I am curious about the price-range.

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Audio production and engineering as well. The more plugins that can be run in real time (rather than baked) the less overhead in managing the ever growing complexity of modern electronic music projects, especially with ever increasingly CPU hungry plugins. Take Diva[1] for example - amazingly resource intensive analog simulation, but it sounds incredible! Currently on my top-end-2011-era macbook pro I can only have one of these going dynamically and then must bake and unbake different channels as I continue to experiment. Being able to run a number in real time would really speed up the work flow.

[1] http://www.u-he.com/cms/diva

I'm guessing it will start somewhere between $2,500 to $3,500. It will be probably more than the top-end iMac. I can't see it being a lot more expensive than the current low-end Mac Pro.

It would be nice if they had a less expensive version, but this is Apple we're talking about.

At that price I'd jump in just to use it for web development and some video processing and OpenCL development.

But I suspect it will be a lot more expensive than that, especially here in the UK. I say it will probably start at $3,500 at the very minimum in the US and then with extra RAM and other upgrades it can go up to $6000 if not more.

This machine will typically come coupled to very beefy displays and external thunderbolt RAID drives and the whole set-up will average more than $10,000.

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