Any chance the new MacPro is just a box with a thunderbolt port?

Just a box with a Thunderbolt port that connects to whatever you happen to have (Macbook Air, Macbook Pro, iMac). It instantly turns whatever screen you have into the interface for the MacPro. The box comes with lots of RAM, several drives, video card. Mountain Lion allows whatever Mac you plugin to the box to have access to all the goodies (RAM, drives, & video card) natively.

Just a thought,

JT

Nice idea, but doubt it. If anything happens like that it will probably be from a third party source as a thunderbolt accessory type thing.

Apple would probably want to keep selling $3000+ computers - as in entire systems, not a you-already-have-a-mac, dependent box/add-on.

You mean a hybrid between a Mac Mini and Mac Pro. Basically you can do this now. I can connect two Mac's via Ethernet cables and share screens. Screen Share is used to do this all the time. That function would not change what a Mac Pro is or does. To remove all interfaces except T'bolt to do a Screen Share, well, I don't see the benefit. That means you'd have to buy what will cause almost as much as a Mac Pro, in addition to another Mac. The market for that device would be miniscule, it wouldn't sell enough boxes to be practical.

Let's just hope for the latest server grade CPUs, top of the line OpenCL GPU, T'bolt, and a form factor that can be rack mount easily.

I was thinking more along the lines of using the MacPro as a dedicated GPU/RAM/Drive bay. So for instance, someone could plug a Macbook Air into it via Thunderbolt and suddenly have 32 gigs of ram and a dedicated video card. I have to assume Apple is moving in this direction eventually. The only way their computers are going to get smaller, but still have the power of a desktop machine.

Tunderbolt is not anywhere near fast enough to run data between RAM and GPU box to a separate Mac. Those connections are very direct are infinity faster than Thunderbolt or any other network or peripheral protocol is physically capable of today.

Well that's a bummer! I really want to ditch this 15" MBP for a 13" but don't want to give up the dedicated graphics card. I guess I'm out of luck for awhile