JFC! FFS! WTMFF??
I’m now definitely NOT going to buy a used 2013 Mac Pro. I didn’t buy one when they came out because I was waiting for Apple to make a retina display for it. They never did, so I never bought. I wonder how many other people did the same. I’ve been waiting for about ten years to buy a Mac workstation. I guess I will be waiting another decade. I’ll be an old man before this **** gets sorted out.
When the 2019 Mac Plutocrat was announced at TWICE the price of the Trashcan, I again considered buying a 2013 Mac Pro and a 3rd-party display, just to get myself a few years more up-to-date, a retina-resolution display, and something that can handle a bit more heat than the anorexic machines Apple expects us to buy (and so do countless Apple fanatics, who don’t know what thermal constraints are, apparently). Between this maddening display voodoo, and the nearly non-existent Thunderbolt 1/2 support out there (just try to find a drive enclosure for TB1/TB2, which is what you really want on a Mac without USB3), it makes no sense for me to spend $3000+ on a USED and outdated computer, just to get myself a bump in software support.
But then, I can’t exactly spend $8000 on a 2019 Mac Plutocrat PLUS display, either. I’m EFFED. Another ten years to wait.
Apple won me over with their great OS and solid unibody macbook builds (if you don’t run them hard), and their mobile devices, back in 2008-2012... but iOS has become a buggy pile of ****, and the computers have been a nightmare of thermal constraints, stupidly high prices, and display compatibility wackiness. Now that they’ve finally decided to do a proper workstation again, it’s just for Pixar studios and the like.
Screw you, Apple.
I’m now definitely NOT going to buy a used 2013 Mac Pro. I didn’t buy one when they came out because I was waiting for Apple to make a retina display for it. They never did, so I never bought. I wonder how many other people did the same. I’ve been waiting for about ten years to buy a Mac workstation. I guess I will be waiting another decade. I’ll be an old man before this **** gets sorted out.
When the 2019 Mac Plutocrat was announced at TWICE the price of the Trashcan, I again considered buying a 2013 Mac Pro and a 3rd-party display, just to get myself a few years more up-to-date, a retina-resolution display, and something that can handle a bit more heat than the anorexic machines Apple expects us to buy (and so do countless Apple fanatics, who don’t know what thermal constraints are, apparently). Between this maddening display voodoo, and the nearly non-existent Thunderbolt 1/2 support out there (just try to find a drive enclosure for TB1/TB2, which is what you really want on a Mac without USB3), it makes no sense for me to spend $3000+ on a USED and outdated computer, just to get myself a bump in software support.
But then, I can’t exactly spend $8000 on a 2019 Mac Plutocrat PLUS display, either. I’m EFFED. Another ten years to wait.
Apple won me over with their great OS and solid unibody macbook builds (if you don’t run them hard), and their mobile devices, back in 2008-2012... but iOS has become a buggy pile of ****, and the computers have been a nightmare of thermal constraints, stupidly high prices, and display compatibility wackiness. Now that they’ve finally decided to do a proper workstation again, it’s just for Pixar studios and the like.
Screw you, Apple.
