My comments had nothing to do with the fact that the MP6,1's ancient GPUs are, well - ancient.
My comments were that the people who were saying "Ick - games. Apples don't do games." were missing a major point.
That point is that VR (and Oculus in particular) is raising an expectation of graphics performance that very expensive current MP6,1's can't meet, and can't be upgraded to meet. VR needs some of the same features and performance as games - Apple is falling further behind.
The requirements are pretty high. My GTX 960 in my home workstation doesn't meet them - but it's fairly easy and cheap to gift the 960 to another system and put in a 970 or 980.
If you have an MP6,1 with less than the D700 - the only real option is to sell and get a new box (or tube).
If you bought a PC this year with a weak graphics card, you upgrade the graphics. If you bought an MP6,1 this year with weak graphics, you toss the trash can into the (eBay) trash can and buy a whole new system.
Perhaps Apple needs to look at the gaming market from a new perspective - or slide into irrelevance.
Not missing a point at all.
http://www.alienware.com/landings/oculus/
http://www.asus.com/event/2015/ocul...m&utm_medium=banner&utm_campaign=oculusmember
Are where gaming comes into it. These are the links for the Oculus Ready systems from the Oculus Site.
Whats been bundled with All Pre-Order, Yes you guessed it Games.
As such it seems fairly obvious (to me) that they are promoting this with gaming! even if only initially. Of course VR has other uses but at the moment with giving away games and linking to gaming systems, then that is where the vendor seems to be focusing on at the moment.
Hence the comments about gaming.
The option if you have an nMP is to actually use the appropriate systems for the tasks you require. Not bin it and buy a new one.
Is why I run 3 systems at home
iTunes/Elgato PVR System - mini 2009
Video Editing/Photo Editing/DVD Ripping etc - Mac Pro 2010
Web Browsiing/Forums/Light Gaming (old games ported to OS X YEARS after Windows ) MBP 2008
There used to be windows gaming system in a Lian Li 343B as well originally but don't bother with gaming anymore other then Total War: Rome and Command & Conquer Generals on OS X, hence no longer need a Windows machine alongside the Mac Pro.
This is in a 1 Bedroom Flat so hardly the most spacious area into which put multiple systems either.
Oculus hardly seem interested either as don't support anything other then Windows, you can argue is a Chicken and Egg, with so little OS X machines being of the necessary spec then why develop for OS X. On the other hand why would Apple care to bring such machines to market as no support from the vendor.
Perhaps it is time for the posting of the "why MVC Cards are epic failures" with the constant posting of the same thing over and over again of the nMP.