Everyone keeps saying that the Mac Pro will be discontinued someday. However Macs are commonly used in the creative field and for media production. These types of tasks are CPU intensive. Even Xcode takes a while to compile when the programs get of considerable size. Hackintoshes rarely work well with xcode especially when considering the credentials that are needed to be passed to the iPad or iPhone for certification and the numerous dev updates that are commonly given out by Apple. It also seems counterintuitive that Apple would force developers to use hacked computers to create software for their device.

With that said the most powerful computer other than the Mac Pro that a developer could buy is an iMac. While be top-of-the-line iMac is a powerful computer it does not offer the expandability that developers need especially for intensive media productions and large code projects.

If anything Apple would need to keep the Mac Pro around just for developers to produce products for Apple. People keep quoting the sales numbers for the Mac Pro however the Mac Pro is certainly not a consumer device so comparing it to the sales of high-volume consumer devices is not a good way to predict the future of the device.

I think the Mac Pro will be with us for quite a while maybe not in the same capacity that it is now however Apple still needs to provide a powerful Mac solution for developers to create programs and media on for Apple products.

So if you guys believe that the Mac Pro will be discontinued how do you think that developers will create Apple software in the future?