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Re: The Mac Pro Lives

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Post by Retric »

mtgx wrote: post #46
TheRealDunkirk wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They wasted an entire hardware iteration on the Touch Bar that hardly anyone cares about. That's what put them in this position. If anything is un-Apple about it, it's that they so badly understood the desires of their customers.

In my opinion, Apple started losing its way when it started caring more about "fashion", which is not necessarily the same as (and it's often the opposite of) good design .

The hardware has mostly stalled out. A great CPU from 3 years ago is still more powerful than what most people are buying today. RAM and SSD space is plentiful enough to be a non issue for most people. Battery progress is steady but very slow. So, what's left to base a new laptop on GPU?

Re: The Mac Pro Lives

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Post by Tepix »

sparkling wrote: post #22

Too late. Hackintosh is up and running.

A new Mac Pro that can be upgraded by the user is great news for the Hackintosh community as well. There will be more drivers for more components.

Re: The Mac Pro Lives

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Post by j_s »

jacquesm wrote: post #36
jlgaddis wrote: post #5

For me -- and, I suspect, many others -- this is too little too late. Just a few months ago, I spent somewhere around $4500 (all-in) putting together a new workstation. It runs Linux instead of OS X and this has led to me using my (4-year-old) ThinkPad more than my (18-month-old) MacBook Pro (when I'm "on the go"). I actually plan on selling the MBP; I just haven't gotten around to it yet. I'm sure this is great news…

You can run linux on the MBP. It's a pretty good combination.

Not sure on the specifics of an 18-month-old MBP vs. this list, but nothing is guaranteed.

https://github.com/Dunedan/mbp-2016-linux

State of Linux on the MacBook Pro 2016

Not Working:

• Audio input & output

• Bluetooth

• Keyboard backlight

• Suspend & Hibernation

• Touch ID

• Wi-Fi

Re: The Mac Pro Lives

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Post by izacus »

jacquesm wrote: post #36
jlgaddis wrote: post #5

For me -- and, I suspect, many others -- this is too little too late. Just a few months ago, I spent somewhere around $4500 (all-in) putting together a new workstation. It runs Linux instead of OS X and this has led to me using my (4-year-old) ThinkPad more than my (18-month-old) MacBook Pro (when I'm "on the go"). I actually plan on selling the MBP; I just haven't gotten around to it yet. I'm sure this is great news…

You can run linux on the MBP. It's a pretty good combination.

They tend to run worse than equivalent ThinkPads though, mostly due to prioprietary nature of power saving APIs and thus you lose battery life (and quiet).

Re: The Mac Pro Lives

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Post by IBM »

>Mac sales were up in 2016, once again outpacing the PC industry as a whole, and the new MacBook Pros are a hit, with sales up “about 20 percent” year over year.

Brutal to all the MBP hot takes from this fall.

Here's a good running list of them.

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2016/10/27/new-macbook-pros-and-the-...

Re: The Mac Pro Lives

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Post by tambourine_man »

The original iMac, you never would’ve thought as remotely touching pro uses.

Not true at all, it was G3 almost as fast as Apple's then PowerMac. The only "problem" was that USB was slow compared to SCSI.

But I used it for PRO work for years. Great value for the money

Re: The Mac Pro Lives

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Post by doppel »

I am really curious what Apple feel constitutes "pro" apps. "Software development" is mentioned, but the general sentiment from Hacker News and developers I have talked to seems to be that Apple do not understand their "Pro" audience, at least when it comes to the Macbook Pro (granted, it's a different beast than Mac Pro).
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