I don't think it is a question of hardware as most people can easily afford a suitable disk array that supports RT HD or 2k etc and the top end graphics cards are powerful enough for RT grading in other competing software like Scratch.
With the release of Snow Leopard and the Nehelem based Mac Pros our expectations have risen and we expect our software to make use of all that new shiny expensive hardware. one only has to look at the Intel processor roadmap and the ATI and nVidia ones to get an idea of the configuration of the next Mac Pro. A 12 core/24 thread monster with hugely powerful GPGPUs should be ideal for Color in fact the whole of the Final Cut Studio suite of applications. It's a shame that Apple's Pro-Apps software development is lagging so far behind the availability of the hardware, even my 1st gen 8 core Mac Pro has barely been given a workout by FCS. Even if Color 1.5 can muster RT playback on the latest Mac Pro but it could certainly do more if the code was brought up to date to support OpenCL.
The main limitation to RT grading and playback is Color's current ability to utilise only one GPU so wouldn't it be great if all CPU cores and multiple GPGPUs in a system were available for rendering? This is what OpenCL will bring to Color and FCS.
Get on the Apple Color feedback form and request OpenCL support.....please.
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