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Re: The Mac Pro Lives

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Post by tmsldd »

tomelders wrote: post #88

> For examples of the type of software that the current Mac Pro isn’t well-suited for, Federighi mentioned VR: “Those can be in VR, those can be in certain kinds of high end cinema production tasks where most of the software out there that’s been written to target those doesn’t know how to balance itself well across multiple GPUs, but can scale across a single large GPU.” Interesting that VR get's a mention there. Fe…

Well noticed. Seems that Apple finally realized that their lines are not in phase with VR requirements.. both for content production and use. I'm not sure whether because they are working on a iVR .. if so MacBook Pro also need a good care as well.. more memory, gpu and a modular update strategy would be well come.

Re: The Mac Pro Lives

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Post by valuearb »

stephen_g wrote: post #131
okket wrote: post #87

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_effect The Osborne effect is a term referring to the unintended consequences of a company announcing a future product, unaware of the risks involved or when the timing is misjudged, which ends up having a negative impact on the sales of the current product. This is often the case when a product is announced too long before its actual availability. This has the immediate effect of…

This is completely irrelevant to this situation. Their Mac Pro sales have surely already reduced to a trickle, and they will know that they will not sell a huge amount of the updated bridging model. The iMac update has been expected for a while so they're not changing much mentioning that's coming later this year either. It's not like killing the current Mac Pro sales is exactly going to put Apple in trouble - they'r…

They just refreshed the Mac Pro though. That's curious timing with the announcement.

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Post by Entangled »

Three years is excessively too much time in any modern measure and that's an unacceptable excuse. Lack of vision is a more acceptable excuse.

I'd take the Mac Mini form factor and make a whole range of pluggable computers from AppleTV-size for $99 to MacPro-size where you can buy as many as you want and use them for the simplest (IoT) or complex tasks (Video editing) while adding more cores, gpus, ram or anything you want is as easy as opening the hatch and installing them.

Vision, not excuses, and looks like Tim Cook doesn't have it.

Re: The Mac Pro Lives

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Post by valuearb »

pier25 wrote: post #154

Many people have already moved to Windows, Linux, and hackintosh. If Apple wants to win them back it will need to offer something really good in specs, features, and specially price.

Yet somehow they have record sales.

Re: The Mac Pro Lives

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Post by JimmaDaRustla »

csomar wrote: post #178

Am I the only one that sees OS X as the biggest reason to switch to Mac? I mean Windows is good, but nowhere good as OS X. And please, don't tell me Ubuntu or other linux flavors. They look good (and are good if you are programming on them) but the UX is still lacking a lot. (Never mind the confusion of the different flavors, packaging systems, and configurations). Also god forbid you have a problem (especially a har…

Whoa. OS X is so lacking and a mess to use that I avoid it at all costs.

Re: The Mac Pro Lives

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Post by michelb »

VelNZ wrote: post #229

Wow, what a torrent of negativity on this thread, I didn't see a single positive comment reading through the top level. This is excellent news, I'm chugging along on a 2010 Mac Pro and was very disappointed when the Apple Displays were cancelled last year. They are a staple of the lineup and always look gorgeous compared to what's on the market. I will definitely be buying the new Mac Pro and 2 displays to go with it…

Excellent news indeed. I was well underway of compiling a hackintosh components list, dreading building a possibly less stable system. I'm really curious at what price points these new macs are going to end up, and if multiple cpu/gpu vendors are supported. (nVidia/AMD)

Re: The Mac Pro Lives

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Post by [deleted] »

coryfklein wrote: post #416
m_fayer wrote: post #403

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The fact that finder doesn't let you retrieve or enter your current FS path just like a URL in a browser is criminal.

Drag the icon in the top center of the window onto your text editor or terminal, it will paste the full path from the Finder window. Admittedly it's annoying that this feature is hidden and requires dragging with the mouse, but it is possible.

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Re: The Mac Pro Lives

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Post by Aaargh20318 »

kerbalspacepro wrote: post #365
Aaargh20318 wrote: post #297

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> Window management in OSX is horrible. What is so horrible about it ? I have the exact same reaction every time I have to use Microsoft Windows. Window management is one of the strongpoints of MacOS. > A network drive hangs? Good luck with Finder..., the whole system halts. I've never encountered this problem on both AFP and SMB shares.

... on Windows you drag a window to the right and make it 1/2 or 1/3 or 1/4 the screen. On a Mac dragging the window... drags the window.

I never understood the whole obsession with running applications fullscreen. The whole point of a multitasking OS is to run multiple apps at the same time. If you need to run your apps fullscreen you probably need a bigger monitor.

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Post by valuearb »

Recurecur wrote: post #346
lexicality wrote: post #24

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That might serve the world, but it wouldn't serve Apple at all

Actually it would serve Apple very well. Most of Apple's profit these days comes from iOS devices, and more macOS in the hands of users would definitely lead to more iOS adoption. Also, systems would be available to suit power users - Apple currently offers exactly zero in that space. Power users influence many buying decisions beyond their own systems. It would be good if macOS could be seriously used for hard-core…

Apple's Mac business is the most profitable PC business in the world, they make more profits from Macs than the rest of the PC makers in the world. They are 7% worldwide by units, about 17% by revenues (ASP around $1200 vs. industry $500) and margins of 15% vs. industry 2-3%.

It's a $25B business that's steadily taken significant market share from Windows/Linux over the last decade.

They should give this up, why?

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Post by BozeWolf »

code_duck wrote: post #454
issa wrote: post #318

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My number one complaint about OSX is also window management. I've never found anything comparable to the way Windows 7 let you use the left/right arrows to line up windows on half the screen. That is the only thing I miss about Windows, but it's a pretty big one. Also, when dis/connecting monitors on OSX, windows often get lost. ps- if anyone has any suggestions or recommendations, I'd love to hear them!

I don't understand how OSX and Windows lack a drag modifier key. Like, in most Linux WMs you can hold Ctrl and click and drag anywhere in a window to move it.

Missed that too, so i installed an app "metamove". Sort of works fine!
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