Has even 'hope' been abandoned?

[pl1984]

I have been looking into this for a while and most of the recent projects are done using opentype fonts. It’s the last 20 years. Type is almost always spaced and manipulated to fit and look right. So most files would change and require additional work (even opentype).
My team is passonite about their work. There are always designers sitting at their work stations way past quiting time. However they are doing billable work that has to get done. We are computer users not IT specialists. Our team is very good to creating brands and packaging. A switch over would require them relearning the interface and fixing competed projects as needed. Management wouid rather have us doing what we do best. Budgets are tighter than ever so when we invest in new machines it is incremental with the faster workstation going to the place it is needed the most. This is easy to do with Macs and I expect this will continue. That said. I don’t expect we woulld ever have a PC revolution but we would definatly add a PC if a project required it. We have not lost hope.

I fully understand the challenge such a move would require. However I do not believe this is an issue Microsoft can resolve. It's just the nature of how different platforms handle things (even when those things are standardized).

The comment of yours I responded to stated:

If Microsoft provided a easy way to port all your user data and applications...​

From the more detailed explanations you've provided the applications already exist and they can directly import your user data. The problem is that importing your data on a different platform is not 100% perfect and it's doubtful Microsoft would be able to do anything to make it that way.

 

[barmann]

Have y'all noticed that since the MacWorld SF 2018 event last week that didn't have even a peep about the mMP 2021 - there has been very little activity on the various "MP 7,1" threads?

Have people simply given up hope?

It's curious how the discussion on the future MPs seems to have come to a grinding halt after that event, and this forum - and others - have returned to talking about upgrading ancient cMPs .

It suggests to me there was still a lot of hope left to this point , after 2 (two) teasers were made public by Apple prior to that .
But since there's never been any official statement on the MP in recent years, and it was ignored at that event, I guess things have become hopeless .

Not to mention that both OSX and all the other Macs have been made more of a niche product than they ever were since OSX was introduced .

 

[rjtiedeman]

Buying a IMAC Pro is giving up hope but thats what I am preparing to do. I am getting nervous that the trade war is going to delay my long awaited upgrade plans and make any new mac even more expensive. I am sure that the mMP will be come in at the high end of my budjet even with out the trade war.

 

[barmann]

Buying a IMAC Pro is giving up hope but thats what I am preparing to do. I am getting nervous that the trade war is going to delay my long awaited upgrade plans and make any new mac even more expensive. I am sure that the mMP will be come in at the high end of my budjet even with out the trade war.

Hmm, I haven't even thought of that trade war .
That's going to hit Apple costumers quite a bit .

 

[diamornte]

I gave up hope of a nMP and nMBP and bit the bullet on 5 year old technology because I had to for work... Thanks Apple, for taking my money.... /s

 

[goMac]

It's curious how the discussion on the future MPs seems to have come to a grinding halt after that event, and this forum - and others - have returned to talking about upgrading ancient cMPs .

It suggests to me there was still a lot of hope left to this point , after 2 (two) teasers were made public by Apple prior to that .

The simpler explanation is that there is nothing to talk about. Speculation has been run into the ground, and there is nothing new to discuss.

 

[Zarniwoop]

The simpler explanation is that there is nothing to talk about. Speculation has been run into the ground, and there is nothing new to discuss.

Ok, let's speculate about T3. Could Apple import Tensor... I mean "Neural Engine" to the Mac to accelerate CoreML routines, and of course, bring Animoji's and other Pro features to the Mac?

 

[jpine]

The Macintosh doesn't need to be Apple's focus. But it shouldn't be neglected either.

When I finally realized that Mac computers only need be fast enough to build iOS app, I stopped being disappointed.

 

[AidenShaw]

, and of course, bring Animoji's and other Pro features to the Mac?

LOL so hard I spit some wine out on the keyboard!

 

[grandM]

the sad truth is computer lines should be updated oftenly, not once a five years

 

[handheldgames]

the sad truth is computer lines should be updated oftenly, not once a five years

Apparently they ran out of innovation at the Mac Pro factory in Texas. Or perhaps it's that darn form over function mantra. Whom ever coined the term 'trash-can-mac' must have been a psychic.

Personally, i prefer my mac with cheese, grater that is.

 

[goMac]

Ok, let's speculate about T3. Could Apple import Tensor... I mean "Neural Engine" to the Mac to accelerate CoreML routines, and of course, bring Animoji's and other Pro features to the Mac?

Would that be any better than the sort of acceleration you’d get from a nice GPU?

 

[Zarniwoop]

Would that be any better than the sort of acceleration you’d get from a nice GPU?

Now that Nvidia has been played out, it actually could be. I believe Apple dreams their own GPU on Mac. They could replace Intel iGPU already with theirs.

T3 could have the GPU and Neural Engine of A11X. Then any Mac could have FaceID.
[doublepost=1531211853][/doublepost]If Apple puts their GPU to replace Intel's', Boot Camp support could be dropped from iGPU only w/o TB3 computers, because Apple wouldn't write Windows drivers for their GPU.

Or, Windows can be used with Intel iGPU.