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Quite frankly, I still don't really see an insurmountable issue here. Personally, I think if the price isn't outrageous, they'll sell reasonably well.
I see this as Apple controlling support issues, by removing the variable of ever-changing internals. In other words, this can be viewed by big clients as a plus from the support side.
However, I see two potential issues:
1) Legacy device support. However, this can be handled like they've handled it in the past, by allowing continued sales of old hardware for a time. In this case, they're already providing a half-year's heads up. If you must use that specific internal card on a Mac, you can buy a current Mac Pro.
2) Thunderbolt conflicts. One thing I've noticed (with limited experience) is that higher end pro-oriented Firewire devices seem to behave better on average, than low end Firewire devices. I suspect the same will be true Thunderbolt. So the problem here is you'll potentially have mixing and maxing of such devices in various client machines, leading to conflicts.
I see this as Apple controlling support issues, by removing the variable of ever-changing internals. In other words, this can be viewed by big clients as a plus from the support side.
However, I see two potential issues:
1) Legacy device support. However, this can be handled like they've handled it in the past, by allowing continued sales of old hardware for a time. In this case, they're already providing a half-year's heads up. If you must use that specific internal card on a Mac, you can buy a current Mac Pro.
2) Thunderbolt conflicts. One thing I've noticed (with limited experience) is that higher end pro-oriented Firewire devices seem to behave better on average, than low end Firewire devices. I suspect the same will be true Thunderbolt. So the problem here is you'll potentially have mixing and maxing of such devices in various client machines, leading to conflicts.
