Think the new iMac could serve as a stand-alone 3d workstation if I had to make a living off it? - Polygons, Pixels & Paint →

Dave Girard:

I think the speed would be fine if you got the top of the line one with the decent GPU but I wouldn’t trust an iMac’s enclosure for extended rendering.

Apple is hoping they can give us what we want in a new workstation. Right now the MacPro is not up to the task and Nuke has out grown it.