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New Mac Pro's confirmed for 2013!
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True. Intel does have certain cpu's that they keep in production for 10 or 20 years for industries and companies that need that kind of stability. This would not normally apply to a trillion dollar consumer computer company but if they want to be retarded who can stop them?
Sorry I don't trust Apple. I like many others have spent tens of thousands of dollars on mac gear on everything from Apple TVs to Mac Pros. But the Mac pros are the center of my world. Now I have a huge investment in thunderbolt connecting my MacBook Pro, Thunderbolt display and two Promise Pegasus raid systems and it is not a terribly stable environment. I need a stable environment. If there were a thunderbolt card for the current Mac Pro it would help. But zero guidance fro Apple.
If the execs are saying something in 2013, that could be 18 months away.
We are moving to 4K video now, 18 months is forever, if it evens happens.
I also started evaluating Adobe Premiere as an alternative to Final Cut Pro. The new core engine in Premiere looks stellar.
Without decent guidance from Apple on what to do and a clear path to something I might see us moving our office (shutter to even says this ) back to Windows and high end H-P systems.
With the purchase of Motorola I see Google moving to challenge Apple in the living room. I look at my friends Android Phones and go "hum,,, pretty nice" .
I wonder if Apple has bitten off more than it can chew and is leaving its most loyal, high end users in the hanging with our bottoms exposed.
If the execs are saying something in 2013, that could be 18 months away.
We are moving to 4K video now, 18 months is forever, if it evens happens.
I also started evaluating Adobe Premiere as an alternative to Final Cut Pro. The new core engine in Premiere looks stellar.
Without decent guidance from Apple on what to do and a clear path to something I might see us moving our office (shutter to even says this ) back to Windows and high end H-P systems.
With the purchase of Motorola I see Google moving to challenge Apple in the living room. I look at my friends Android Phones and go "hum,,, pretty nice" .
I wonder if Apple has bitten off more than it can chew and is leaving its most loyal, high end users in the hanging with our bottoms exposed.
Apple the "artistes"
Apple has been very clear about not doing something unless it "revolutionizes an industry".
You can't depend on someone with such an attitude to provide stability, predictability, or the "boring" infrastructure that comes with just doing a great job producing reliable computers. They need to be walking around on stage showing people the wonder that they are. And the crowd goes wild when they see the device now comes in colors.
"You mean you can pinch AND flick? OMG!"
More sober vendors (SGI, HP, Sun) go around to major customers and have presentations where they lay out their technology roadmap for the coming years, so their customers can plan also.
This is 180 degrees opposite Apple, which always has to astonish and "surprise" their customers, equating surprise with revolutionize.
In a sense Apple is living in the past, always trying to recapture the moment of the introduction of the microcomputer in the 1970's. That set the template for their self-image, even though in part it came from accidents of history and timing.
Apple should have a different business unit committed to following-up and maintaining prior "revolutions" instead of dropping them when the hype moves on, while "artiste" Apple can forge ahead dazzling the world (until the inevitable day they don't ... but can then fall back on the rock-solid unit).
Apple has been very clear about not doing something unless it "revolutionizes an industry".
You can't depend on someone with such an attitude to provide stability, predictability, or the "boring" infrastructure that comes with just doing a great job producing reliable computers. They need to be walking around on stage showing people the wonder that they are. And the crowd goes wild when they see the device now comes in colors.
"You mean you can pinch AND flick? OMG!"
More sober vendors (SGI, HP, Sun) go around to major customers and have presentations where they lay out their technology roadmap for the coming years, so their customers can plan also.
This is 180 degrees opposite Apple, which always has to astonish and "surprise" their customers, equating surprise with revolutionize.
In a sense Apple is living in the past, always trying to recapture the moment of the introduction of the microcomputer in the 1970's. That set the template for their self-image, even though in part it came from accidents of history and timing.
Apple should have a different business unit committed to following-up and maintaining prior "revolutions" instead of dropping them when the hype moves on, while "artiste" Apple can forge ahead dazzling the world (until the inevitable day they don't ... but can then fall back on the rock-solid unit).
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Yes they messed up the 2012 upgrade, yes we got screwed, HOWEVER most everyone here wanted confirmation of the pro's status a week ago.
Now at least we know. The desktop won't be killed off. Which is great news.
Now I just have to fix my pc to last a year or a year and a 1/2. Not saying I'm looking forward to another year of windows trouble but hey, at least we know where they stand.
Now at least we know. The desktop won't be killed off. Which is great news.
Now I just have to fix my pc to last a year or a year and a 1/2. Not saying I'm looking forward to another year of windows trouble but hey, at least we know where they stand.
I'm pretty sure that some of us will find that it will be 964+ shades of awesome, but you won't care as you'll have your hackintosh...
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