What it is: The Mac Pro is the most powerful Macintosh computer on the market today.
In 2013, Apple introduced the new Mac Pro that crammed every feature inside a cylindrical shaped case. Besides its fancy appearance, the Mac Pro is so powerful that if it existed in 2003, it would have been rated the 8th fastest super computer in the world.
Back in the early days of PCs, mainframe and minicomputer users scoffed at PCs that they derided as “toys”. Then PCs got so powerful that they displaced the market for most mainframe and minicomputers.
Today PC users scoff at smartphones and tablets as “toys,” which means tomorrow smartphones and tablets will be just as powerful as PCs. You can already see this shift to mobile computing happening as people use PCs less and mobile computers more.
One day a smartphone and tablet will be equivalent to yesterday’s super computers. When you have a super computer in your pocket, how will the computer market look then? Already people can’t go without their smartphones. Tomorrow’s super computer smartphones will simply be an extension of our personalities.
As super computers get faster and more powerful, you can bet computers of all types will also get faster and more powerful. To believe otherwise is nothing more than a strategy for failure and short-sightedness.
For a dedicated market, super computers will always be necessary. For the rest of us, yesterday’s super computer power in our smartphones and tablets (and now wearable computers) will work just fine. We’ll always need desktop and laptop PCs. We just won’t need them as much any more.
The future is clear that desktop and laptop PCs are not on the forefront of technology any more. Knowing this, you can plan your future assuming that computers will continue getting more powerful and more portable. This knowledge alone gives you opportunities that others will miss simply because they refuse to acknowledge that computing processing power will always get better and more affordable.