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I do think it's telling that so many people here want to stay on OS X, despite Apple not caring a whole lot about their professional customers.

I must admit I love OS X myself - Logic Pro X is an incredible DAW and OS X is a wonderful platform in and of itself despite its flaws.
 
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Aldaris said:
We have had a Troll go ahead with one of his first posts (if not his very first post) turn this into a now 42 page thread, offering nothing other then speculation and hearsay. And where are we?
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That ‘troll’ didn’t turn this into a 42 page discussion. You and I did. You were free to start your own thread on the subject and ignore this one.
 
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JoelTheSuperior said:
I do think it's telling that so many people here want to stay on OS X, despite Apple not caring a whole lot about their professional customers.

I must admit I love OS X myself - Logic Pro X is an incredible DAW and OS X is a wonderful platform in and of itself despite its flaws.
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but how many want to stay on OS X because of lethargy and how many actually want to stay. I listen to the same pop punk bands I did in the 80's and 90's they speak to my politics, they're fast, they're done in less than 120 seconds I listen because it's what I've always listened to those dudes they're part of my psyche. There are great new punk bands out there but it's lethargy that keeps me going back to what I know. To bring it to tech I use a track ball when I was young and I still use on today even though people point laugh because it's "right" mice are probably better but I still continue to overpay for trackballs *shug*

I type this listening to Bad Religion sing Sinister Rouge :oops:
 
According to Dalrymple there will be no new Macs on September event.

So there we have it. We can wait to September event, and for those impatient - jump ship immediately.
 
koyoot said:
there will be no new Macs on September event
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WTF Apple. There better be new Macs this year.

The age of the lineup is an ever increasing embarrassment. I've even seen the "All Macs are old" type articles hitting non-Apple news sites.
 
ManuelGomes said:
Thanx. And he says no nMP anytime soon? Bad news.
Sierra Beta 4 brings anything new to the table?
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I'm hearing his latest podcast, what he said are old news, "He Thinks, no new Macs in September event...", its only a Dalrymple asumption he develops why he thinks... coz too much mac deviates atention etc...
http://www.loopinsight.com/
His reasoning it's just empiric, darymple knows nothing on marketing, indeed for marketing purposes an massive Mac/iPhone mega launch its more favorable than segregated events.
 
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The only way Mac Pro will exist is if we actually see some leaks otherwise there is no Mac. Tbh, if that's the case nMP wouldn't be "outdated" as it is the latest. Tech wise yes it is old.
 
I was thinking about what Apple might be up to while I was looking at some of the new Xeon Phi stuff that is coming...what if Apple built a Mac Pro around a Xeon Phi 7230? You can boot these, they are not only used as coprocessors. If they did built a Xeon Phi workstation, you would have 64 to 72 cores with 6 channel DDR4-2400 memory with a 16GB HBM-like cache. The cores have AVX-512 vector units as well. Couple this with only one GPU, and it would fit in the power envelope for the current nMP. This is totally insane, of course, but a mathematician can dream...
 
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I was thinking about what Apple might be up to while I was looking at some of the new Xeon Phi stuff that is coming...what if Apple built a Mac Pro around a Xeon Phi 7230? You can boot these, they are not only used as coprocessors. If they did built a Xeon Phi workstation, you would have 64 to 72 cores with 6 channel DDR4-2400 memory with a 16GB HBM-like cache. The cores have AVX-512 vector units as well. Couple this with only one GPU, and it would fit in the power envelope for the current nMP. This is totally insane, of course, but a mathematician can dream...
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People here still will cry: Why no Dual Xeon Phi...

BTW Intel released Xeon-Phi toolchain for macOS ParallelEstudio... but maybe only for remote development as with nvidia you can code on a Mac and run/debug on a Linux Node... what if this linux node has thunderbolt3 networking and fits on the desktop...
 
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...what if this linux node has thunderbolt3 networking and fits on the desktop...
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What is "Thunderbolt 3 networking"? Is that point-to-point TCP/IP between two systems? And why would Linux users want to leave 100 Gbps Ethernet for much slower links?

And how many Xeon Phi cores and/or CUDA cores does it support? Oh, just a couple of midrange 100 watt ATI GPUs. Yawn.

And why care if it fits on your desktop?
 
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Like I said, Tim said the desktop is dead. Guess he really meant it, at least for Apple anyway.
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For what they must consider their target audience, it's probably a reasonable assessment. Just more apparent indications that Apple no longer considers advanced users it's target audience and instead is shifting to consumers who are better served by Apple's iProducts and the like.
 
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I still cringe at this ****ing "NoOne" guy who thinks he's some sort of super hero, pretending to leak information in the tone of some ****ing Batman villain.
 
kennyisalive said:
I still cringe at this ****ing "NoOne" guy who thinks he's some sort of super hero, pretending to leak information in the tone of some ****ing Batman villain.
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It's like the X-Files: people want to believe (not that I did, 'cause I'm a Super Villain!).
 
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If i render my videos on ipp......
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ActionableMango said:
WTF Apple. There better be new Macs this year.

The age of the lineup is an ever increasing embarrassment. I've even seen the "All Macs are old" type articles hitting non-Apple news sites.
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Macs are now like the old wine, the older, the better, and of course the more expensive.

It's Apple winery now:)

At least I hope that they won't have the time to turn into vinegar...
 
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What is "Thunderbolt 3 networking"? Is that point-to-point TCP/IP between two systems? And why would Linux users want to leave 100 Gbps Ethernet for much slower links?

And how many Xeon Phi cores and/or CUDA cores does it support? Oh, just a couple of midrange 100 watt ATI GPUs. Yawn.

And why care if it fits on your desktop?
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Coz a Mellanox dual 100 gps fabric costs ~1000$ per node (Inc fiber optic cable) while 40gbps tb3 it's almost free (actually adds about 40$ per node but will be included on most mainstream workstation as default).
 
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filmak said:
Macs are now like the old wine, the older, the better, and of course the more expensive.

It's Apple winery now:)

At least I hope that they won't have the time to turn into vinegar...
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If it gets too old....i don't think we will live to drink that wine, right? lol
 
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