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Re: Expected arrival times for Apple products

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Post by TillE »

hollerith wrote: post #98
tolmasky wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You might actually be better off getting a Mac Mini or Macbook Pro Retina for those apps, unless they are GPU or RAM bound. If I recall correctly, both these machines outperform the Mac Pro in terms of CPU now.

Does anyone have an explanation for this puzzling neglect of the market for "high-end" Mac desktops?

Well, there's going to be a major update of the Mac Pro this year, widely presumed to be something more than a mere upgrade of the internals.

It's difficult to explain the continued use of outdated chips over the past few years, especially after they discontinued the XServe and told everyone to use the Mac Pro instead.

I suppose the Gruber-esque answer is that Apple (especially under Steve Jobs) wants to present an elegant vision of what computing should be, every product a work of art with considerable mass market appeal. The Mac Pro is basically indistinguishable from a bulky 90s tower PC, and very few people actually need it.

It's a decidedly unsexy product. Apple is not Dell or Lenovo, they make very few products and they make a very big deal out of each one of them. The Mac Pro is an unfortunate necessity that they cannot reasonably discontinue. But it's not a product that Apple really wants to make.

Re: Expected arrival times for Apple products

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Post by williadc »

revelation wrote: post #25
simonsarris wrote: post #15

This is a great idea, and is especially pertinent to Mac fans who care about the hardware they are using. Since Apple does not discount old hardware (even with 2-3 year old video cards, they charge the same amount as a brand new updated mac the very next week[1]), people buying a Macbook pro at the wrong end of the timeline can get totally shafted on equipment, especially from a price-per-performance view. That feels…

They just discounted the rMBP (and updated the processors mildly). I don't understand what they could possibly update it with further, given that Haswell will not be released for many more months.

Haswell will launch much sooner than you expect.

Re: Expected arrival times for Apple products

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Post by calebegg »

ghshephard wrote: post #103

This site is a rip off of the work that macrumors has been doing for several years. See: http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/ At the very least they should provide a credits link somewhere on their page.

Yes. Also, the MacRumors version shows all the data, which can be really revealing. For instance, the progression of cycle length on the Mac Pro vs other products.

Re: Expected arrival times for Apple products

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Post by jgraham »

anti-pattern wrote: post #83
jgraham wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The problem is that the site is using SVG paint servers to provide a gradient for the progress rect. The gradient is specified in a SVG def element with id barGradient in the HTML file. So far so good. The problem arises because the fill rule is written as "fill: url(#barGradient)" and is placed in an external CSS file. In this case the fragment should be resolved against the stylesheet URL, not the HTML document URL…

Ah, that makes sense. Thanks for explaining it! This was my first time using SVG. So, what is the best solution? Defining SVG styles in a style tag?

That would work, yes.

Re: Expected arrival times for Apple products

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Post by wingerlang »

ghshephard wrote: post #103

This site is a rip off of the work that macrumors has been doing for several years. See: http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/ At the very least they should provide a credits link somewhere on their page.

Am I am missing something really "ripoffy" like stealing code, images or similar data?

If yes, sure credit should be due. If no, why should they give credit?

Re: Expected arrival times for Apple products

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Post by flrpsrmblrb »

calebegg wrote: post #104
ghshephard wrote: post #103

This site is a rip off of the work that macrumors has been doing for several years. See: http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/ At the very least they should provide a credits link somewhere on their page.

Yes. Also, the MacRumors version shows all the data, which can be really revealing. For instance, the progression of cycle length on the Mac Pro vs other products.

But this one uses trendy colors and has a ".io" domain! Who cares if it contains less information!

Re: Expected arrival times for Apple products

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Post by timc3 »

aorshan wrote: post #70
simonsarris wrote: post #15

This is a great idea, and is especially pertinent to Mac fans who care about the hardware they are using. Since Apple does not discount old hardware (even with 2-3 year old video cards, they charge the same amount as a brand new updated mac the very next week[1]), people buying a Macbook pro at the wrong end of the timeline can get totally shafted on equipment, especially from a price-per-performance view. That feels…

You could also buy a refurbished mac. They tend to be about $300 cheaper than the retail version and tend not to have any problems. I just bought one and so far its been perfect. http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/specialdeals/mac

It's not always possible in some countries
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