"The Mac Pro's target market is probably among people doing research or running render farms" and "Now if even hard-core enthusiasts like Matt and myself are t

"The Mac Pro's target market is probably among people doing research or running render farms" and "Now if even hard-core enthusiasts like Matt and myself are turning to laptops and iMacs..." Makes me think that the author's view of the world is very narrow. Renderfarms are in fact a bad target for a Mac Pro -- part of the reason for the MacPro's cost is graphics hardware, which you don't need on a renderfarm... though that's probably going to start changing as the graphics processors continue to become compute clusters. That is, of course, why there's such a market for rack-mount headless servers. Outside of research, there are as mentioned elsewhere in the comments the creative industry, which has much more need of memory, computing power, and graphics performance than the "hardcore enthusiasts" -- compositing and animation can be very intensive tasks... imagine the amount of data involved in just the models for the battle scenes in "The Return of the King" for example.