I've been putting the Mac Pro to good use with Adobe Lightroom. The machine is fast enough that Lightroom (still a beta and definitely not optimized) runs very nicely. I'm importing lots of old images that I previously had cataloged in iView MediaPro. Images in iView just aren't very useful because they're not immediately accessible. I think Lightroom and Aperture are going to finally put to death all of the arcane workflows people have been getting by with.
From now on I'll be importing directly into Lightroom, and it automatically creates a backup copy of the imported files on my external drive. My Lightroom library automatically gets backed up once a week. What else do I need?
I do look forward to performance optimizations (and fixing the incessant checking of thumbnails), but as far as I'm concerned Lightroom is good to go on the Mac Pro.
