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Re: iMac Pro

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Post by cjsuk »

vacri wrote: post #188
ido wrote: post #187

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've had many PCs and macs, about one every couple of years since 1987 (4 macs and probably ~ a dozen PCs). Without fail the PCs always break in at lease some minor but still annoying way even tho I buy high end hardware where as the macs do not.

Macs fail often. It's just annoying to hear this myth perpetuated that they never fail. They might fail less than other vendors' laptops, but 'macs never fail' is clearly not true - one simple example is 'staingate'.

They do fail. But when they do it doesn’t disappear into some independent repairers hole for six months and you get a messed up pile of tainted shit back (Acer, Sony, Asus I’m looking at you). I’ve never had a mac or thinkpad break where I haven’t killed it physically and I’ve fixed them myself then.

Re: iMac Pro

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Post by walshemj »

coldtea wrote: post #159
walshemj wrote: post #65

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Moving from a MAC pro workflow to a Wintel (i9 Xenon or AMD) is non trivial you might as well bight the bullet and go threadripper or EPYC now

> Moving from a MAC pro workflow to a Wintel (i9 Xenon or AMD) is non trivial So what do I earn from "biting the bullet"? I go through a non trivial process for merely the possibility that the iMac Pro might not have continued new models (which will only matter to me in 2-3 years at earlier if I buy it). And that when there's already another Mac Pro model announced for 2018.

Your laying off the risk of apple either abandoning the pro market or at best ignoring it as it has for the last few years.

Re: iMac Pro

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Post by crispinb »

bischofs wrote: post #108

Linux is getting better as a desktop OS. I hope that continues so Apple gets some competition - Marketing an all-in-one as a Pro machine is just arrogant, I don't care whats under the hood the form factor is wrong. I have been using mint 18 with cinnamon 3 and its a nice GUI and rock solid stable. It runs my dev env but also 24/7 servers and a few daemons. I just added some more ram for cheap (up to 24GB ) to run mor…

The new MBP's fake keyboard is going to be the biggest boost Linux has had in a decade. All the devs I know are hanging on to their macbooks because they can't bear the thought of the new ones. Unless Apple backs down on the TouchBar (unlikely), my current ageing MBPro is definitely my last.

Re: iMac Pro

#195

Post by mygo »

IntelMiner wrote: post #186
blunte wrote: post #153

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Never underestimate the ability of Adobe to make a computer feel slow. I'm a user and fan of their Premiere and Illustrator products, but I believe they need to invest a lot more energy into: 1 - making their stuff crash less often! and 2 - optimizing some of the unreasonably slow features. In a way, ever more powerful computers like this have enabled Adobe to stay lazy. But it is what it is, and at the end of the da…

I do some video editing to make goofy videos for friends On a whim I tried out the latest version of Adobe Premiere (I normally just use Sony Vegas, or "Vegas Pro" as it's now called) On an i7-4790 with 16 gigs of memory, a GTX 970 and an SSD, Vegas loads in roughly 5-6 seconds Premiere took roughly a minute, and rendered the entire system unusable while it loaded! after loading, just sitting at an empty main screen,…

who needs to write more efficient software when hardware manufacturers ensure your slow code automatically gets faster year after year?

oh and when you've already cornered the market and become an industry standard

Re: iMac Pro

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Post by styfle »

to3m wrote: post #142
fhood wrote: post #93

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I'm a programmer and I tend to buy the thing with the largest numbers. I justify it by admitting to myself that I am only buying it because it has the largest numbers, and that it will last me longer, thus causing less pollution. But really it is just because of the numbers.

I do this too. You'll never have buyers' remorse if you buy the one with the largest numbers, nor will you ever run out of disk space.

I tend to squeeze every penny and I have a bit of buyer's remorse for buying a refurbished MacBook 2015 with the smallest storage: 128 GB.

Everything else is great, but I'm constantly finding myself in situations where I am about to install Docker, or go-lang, or something I am experimenting with and eventually come to the conclusion...not worth it to install.

Should I fire up Garage Band? Nope, I probably will use it twice and then it will sit there taking up disk space.

I'm trying to take advantage of more "cloud" solutions but they're not the same :(

Re: iMac Pro

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Post by Caprinicus »

styfle wrote: post #196
to3m wrote: post #142

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I do this too. You'll never have buyers' remorse if you buy the one with the largest numbers, nor will you ever run out of disk space.

I tend to squeeze every penny and I have a bit of buyer's remorse for buying a refurbished MacBook 2015 with the smallest storage: 128 GB. Everything else is great, but I'm constantly finding myself in situations where I am about to install Docker, or go-lang, or something I am experimenting with and eventually come to the conclusion...not worth it to install. Should I fire up Garage Band? Nope, I probably will use i…

You can replace the ssd on that MacBook. It won’t be cheap, but storage that fast isn’t anyways. I have the 1tb ssd from a MacBook in my windows desktop

Re: iMac Pro

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Post by ido »

vacri wrote: post #188
ido wrote: post #187

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've had many PCs and macs, about one every couple of years since 1987 (4 macs and probably ~ a dozen PCs). Without fail the PCs always break in at lease some minor but still annoying way even tho I buy high end hardware where as the macs do not.

Macs fail often. It's just annoying to hear this myth perpetuated that they never fail. They might fail less than other vendors' laptops, but 'macs never fail' is clearly not true - one simple example is 'staingate'.

Obviously not never - nothing lives forever. But in the timespans relevant to computers (3-6 years) I've had PCs fail a lot more.

Re: iMac Pro

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Post by KaiserPro »

ricardobeat wrote: post #42
KaiserPro wrote: post #18

If you want CPU/GPU power on a more realistic budget, I'd suggest something like the HP Z620/640. Dual xeons, loads of disk space, and enough power to put at least two tiptop GPUs in.

But no macOS - despite a few warts and declining quality, still the best desktop operating system available.

Depends what you want it for.

If you are doing things that need decent GPU support, you are shit out of luck.

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