Will Mac Pro survive?

I am not sure I can believe this claim. Do you want to give an example of a list of hardware you use and their prices?

FiReDuCk said:

I'm not sure how far it will go, if you look at mac mini to iMac you cannot upgrade any components (maybe only memory which you can upgrade)

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I guess that I haven't actually upgraded memory and mass storage on Mac Minis, iMacs, PowerBooks and MacBooks/MacBook Pros then.There's really not much else that makes sense to upgrade on those classes of machines. I've always been able to upgrade CPUs on workstation-class Macs at least as far back as the initial G3 systems.

Now, doing some of this would void your warranty, but it's not often that you really need to upgrade during the first year or two anyway. After that it's open season. I can't recall offhand of any PC maker that sells upgrade parts for systems they sell (not counting memory, which is usually over priced). Being able to get cpu/graphics/drives from third parties isn't the same as manufacturer support, either.

I've got Macs still in daily use here that date back to 1999 (in that particular case handed down from one of my daughters to a mother of a close friend). Seems like a pretty good deal all told.

It would be a mistake comparing a Mac Pro to any wintel machine.

Like other users here, I grew up on Wintel machines and once Apple moved to Intel chips, I never looked back. I now spend more time doing and less time fixing.