the whole desktop line is in serious need of a refresh. at least some new Mac Mini units. it's been over two years now. I bought the mid-range Mac Mini, and it's identical to what's in the Store today.
That whole line needs more RAM, newer CPUs, and SSD across the board. :|
Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the Mac
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#22I wish Apple never had their success with iTunes and iPhone. It was like winning lottery for them. And you know what happens when someone wins lottery. They forget about their roots and in the end, only ruin remains.
Fantastically dramatic assessment! I'm curious just what aspects of the pre-iPhone Apple were preferable?
Off the top of my head I can think of a couple:
1) OSX was a viable operating system that was first class in the Apple ecosystem.
2) Laptops and desktops that were actually better than the competition including models geared toward power users.
Re: Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the Mac
#23I wish Apple never had their success with iTunes and iPhone. It was like winning lottery for them. And you know what happens when someone wins lottery. They forget about their roots and in the end, only ruin remains.
I don't think "only ruin remains" is a fair statement to say about Apple, when the causes you're lamenting are the saving grace that got them to be a $300B+ company from effectively the brink of death.
"In the end." They're still riding high from iTunes and iPhone. I'm personally a fan of Apple, but who knows where this ship ends up.
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#24OK, if they are so committed, where is OpenGL 4.5 and Vulkan support? Why is Safari so behind that it's now called "the new IE"? Talk is cheap, let them actually do something.
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#25I thought the whole "crazy ones" theme was about Apple building things that helped people change the world. Somehow that's morphed into Apple changing the world. I think might be a problem.
Considering 99.99% of silicom valley uses macs as their primary development machines, they've pretty much monopolized the first goal.
So there are only about 100 non-mac development machines in total in the Silicon Valley?
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#26What I really want is for my state (SSD, RAM, maybe the CPU, but probably not the GPU) to be easily detachable from my human interface devices (keyboard, mouse, display). I want to be able to use a desktop in one place, then unplug a small unit which contains the aforementioned state (i.e. the equivalent of a sleeping laptop but with no keyboard or display), carry that someplace else, plug it in to a different set of HID devices, and pick up exactly where I left off. And, of course, one possible set of HID devices would be something like a present-day laptop so that I can continue working while en-route. But there is no reason why the business end of a computer needs to be in the same enclosure as the HID, and a lot of reasons why it should not be.
I can do much of this now with a USB3 SSD, but the problem is that there is no way to "sleep" such a configuration. To change locations I need to shut down in one place and reboot in another.
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#27This comes at no surprise. I predicted that at some point desktop computers used by designers and software engineers would start approaching workstation class pricing (around 4K USD or more) as laptops took over. This will reflect the depressed demand as more people are able to get what they need done via a laptop. Apple might be one of the few manufacturers able to sell desktops at a loss, and justify it since the M…
I wonder if a problem is maintaining a commitment to the Mac when the computer market is no longer committed to desktop / laptop computers in general. It seems that the world has kinda topped out on what they (we?) need, which is some kind of modestly functioning computer with a keyboard for "work," and a phone for everything else.
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#28I'm sure they are.. the real question is will there ever be upgradeability again, and how fast will spells between refreshes be?
It'd be interesting if Apple resurrected the old fan-less Cube design/concept for the desktops:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Mac_G4_Cube
The time is right now especially given the age and non-expandability of the Mac Pro.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
I mean really the only component you're ever going to be able to upgrade is RAM right? Are you suggesting it should be possible to swap out CPUs in iMacs?
Upgradeability also includes things like the hard drive and card expansion slots. Those both let you extend the useful life of a computer a bit.
But you can already upgrade your hard drives through the USB interface. Nowadays that's plenty fast enough even for external SSDs. You don't really need SATA any more.
Re: Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the Mac
#30What I really want is for my state (SSD, RAM, maybe the CPU, but probably not the GPU) to be easily detachable from my human interface devices (keyboard, mouse, display). I want to be able to use a desktop in one place, then unplug a small unit which contains the aforementioned state (i.e. the equivalent of a sleeping laptop but with no keyboard or display), carry that someplace else, plug it in to a different set of…
This is exactly what I want. Well articulated.