Nehalem-based Mac Pros and new Mac minis and iMacs. Apple has now totally abandoned Intel integrated graphics in favor of NVIDIA hardware, which should make everyone happy.
The Nehalem Mac Pros are the stars of the show for your Mac-based HD video needs, for obvious reasons. But we’re also pretty excited about the new Minis. With FireWire 800 and NVIDIA graphics, these seem like they’d be perfectly good systems for everyday editing tasks, probably even cutting 1080p ProRes HQ (with external storage, obviously). And the base configuration, bumped up to 2 GB of RAM, is just $650. Not a substitute for a Mac Pro, clearly, but a small video production shop built around three or four of these and one ~$5K Mac Pro seems like a pretty plausible approach.
