Maybe not your use case, maybe not the use case for every single person you've ever met in your entire industry, but there are 7 billion people in this world and many of us are bound to have significantly different needs and preferences.
i think people interpret me (or others) saying "hey, here's something different that works for me.." or " this is a newer way of working that i'm finding advantageous"
as:
"hey, my way is THE way and YOU need to adapt"
....
it's borderline ridiculous to assume this is what most 'nmp advocates' are saying..
i mean, come on.. this is a mac pro forum.. there are fans of macs here and they gather here as it's a place to ramble about some tech they happen to like..
if i went to some hpz forum and started talking "maybe it's not the best design to have 5 drive bays inside your computer.. apple does it like _____ and it's better" (or whatever), then, you may have a case for me being out of line..
..but if i can't talk about macs and working with macs or mac designs in a mac forum, where do you suppose i should go?
should i just shut up? should i just quit talking about aspects of particular designs for fear that some other forum members might get paranoid and think i'm telling them to drink kool-aid or something?
about the only 'advice' i give here towards the negative voices is ala-- if apple doesn't make computers you want then quit buying them.. (which, for whatever reason, usually gets negative remarks in return even though it's about the most simple equation out there)
cMP: 1-6 internal SATA bays for industry standard devices; PCIe-based drives; external drives; local network attached storage; and the cloud.
nMP: 1 custom PCIe-based drive, external drives, local network attached storage, and the cloud.
The nMP design is a reduction in storage capability and flexibility. It compromises many use cases, hence the frequent complaints.
this is something else that's always a bit weird to me.. a lot of people who argue in favor of cmp design over 6,1 have this knack for explaining the cmp in just about every single argument ("cmp has pcie slots which allows user a much wider variety of gpus to be used".. "cmp has internal storage".. etcetc).
the part that's wonky is that a lot of people here have been using macs for a long time.. i used a cmp since they very first came out and replaced about 2 years ago.. like the only people who've used cmp longer than i are those that got a new 1,1 and are still using cmp today..
point being -- you don't have to explain what a cmp is or the difference between it and 6,1.. you don't have to explain the difference between using cmp internal drive bays and 6,1s single drive.
we (or at least I) already know the differences... everything you're (and hey, not necessarily you, a.m., in particular) trying to get across is wasted breath because we've worked with the hardware you're discussing for the past decade..
[edit] heh, we're about one month away from it being exactly one decade for mac pro line.[/edit]
of course we know what you're talking about... you understand this, right?
you're saying nothing new or insightful or different.. it's the 'nmp advocates' that are saying new things.. fresh ideas.. exploring new ways of working.. etc.
and those people trying to talk about these newish and certainly future ways of computing are being constantly barraged with crap like "that idea is st00pid!.. listen to my idea and my preferences!!" (which leads in to them explaining my basic computing set up for at least the past decade as if i'm completely unaware that any such computer like cmp has ever existed.. or what it's like to swap a gpu.. or what it's like to put bulk storage inside a computer.)
[edit]- hmmm. for some reason Mango, i thought you had quoted me in the post i just responded to of yours.. idk, i'm just speaking generally in the above and not directly at you but sorry for the confusion anyway.
