I think you're being dramatic and unreasonable. Three days is really not that much more than than day 1 to make system-wide changes across all of their hundreds of stores. They have more important things to do than update the software, like running the damn stores. Employees at some stores will think of it, some won't. Eventually, I'm sure a directive will come down from above, but again, retail upper management has better things to do in the interim as well in light of product launches. If in a few weeks, they're still not upgraded, then you might have more cause to be upset.
Besides, I don't think most people who are considering buying a nMP goes in store and tests one out to make their decisions. Most single-unit buyers can just look up benchmarks on somewhere like Anandtech. ...
The key here is that the newer versions of those programs were specifically timed to be released just before the Mac Pro, because without those updates, the performance would be flat. So the software had to be from a backup of an entirely different (and older) model, because the version that would've installed the day the computer was unpacked would've been current.
I've seen benchmarks, but most of them are not tangible to me. X MB/s vs Y MB/s makes it seem like a commodity.
What kind of benchmarks did you personally have to do that you couldn't just find online?
How it "felt", when I loaded a real video clip, added something, changed something and then exported it.
The result?
When I added a lower thirds title, then dragged it across the entire timeline, it actually felt SLOWER than my MacBook Pro 17" 2011. It dragged funny... then when I reached for the share button to export it... it was grayed out as I waited quite a bit before it popped up.
For the record, I already have a 6 core, D700, 32 GB, 1TB rig on order since right after they went on sale. That's about a $6000 setup. I'm just looking for confirmation that this configuration is worth that price by taking a test drive.
What I ended up with was a clear example of bad planning. They should've made it a point to install those updated programs, or simply not put them on the tables until they did.
Instead of "Holy Crap that was fast!", they had me, and likely other buyers wondering why they bothered putting it out.
Suffice it to say, in the Dock there was the App Store with a red 6... All it would take is for the manager to click UPDATE ALL, and they would have a killer demo computer. Is it that complicated for them to do that?
I've asked them 3 times to do it. They're still waiting for Apple to tell them to do it. Do they actually need to be told?
That's why I wrote Corporate. They may not even know how the stores are demonstrating it. When I called them, they suggested I go into Manhattan, where they would be likely to have it properly configured.
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Yeah, thats very un-apple like. Usually they would have a strict guideline on how to present their new baby seen as these machines are like gold dust.
I would speak to the manager of the store and ask him, politely, why they installed old software on the new Mac Pro as it could just be human error.
I asked 3 times so far. They passed the buck and said they would talk to their audio / visual manager, who would likely be waiting for Apple to tell them what to do.
They did have a few high end games installed (which I didn't bother to load). This makes me think they restored a backup from a consumer model.
