Apple customers limited to mac freindly graphic cards!

Hi all!
As a 3D artist, it bothers me more than ever, that the selection of graphic cards available to is so limited. We can choose between:
NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT
ATI Radeon X1900 XT (the one i got)
NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500
Any chance we will be able to choose freely in the future, which graphic cards we will use in our Mac?
And does anyone know if apple is considering expanding or "updating" the line of available graphic cards to the Mac Pro?
I would like to be able to buy a NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra card for my Mac Pro.

Speculation on hardware isn't allowed on the forum, but it doesn't matter because Apple isn't saying and nobody has a clue. I do feel sorry for those who have not had a long history with Apple and thought because the graphics cards were PCIe that they'd have half a dozen to choose from "really soon now". I knew better and make the assumption that these three cards will be it. Permanently. It's even odds that a new wrench in the updated MacPro may make the new generation of cards installed incompatable with the existing machines. I hope that's not the case. As I've said many times in many ways, it's a sad state of affairs.

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