Had a conversation with my wife about this, too (we both use Macs in our home-based design studio) and we came to the same exact conclusion.
…just hang on six years to retirement (hopefully).
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Had a conversation with my wife about this, too (we both use Macs in our home-based design studio) and we came to the same exact conclusion.
…just hang on six years to retirement (hopefully).
You must be kidding.
Those rumors are suggesting yet again a Mac Pro with garbage specs.
Pros are not happy. They are pissed off and there is a mass exodus to windows/linux as we speak.
Apple's trash can is exactly what it is. A trash can.
Their stubbornness is all that's needed to drive professionals away.
All is lost and it's too late.
Maybe it's time Apple just drops all of the desktops and licenses MacOS to Dell, HP, Lenovo, etc for desktop only machines.
5 years ago, I would have thought that was crazy, but now I think it's the only thing that would save macOS.
Shocking treatment of Pro users by Apple.
Hmmm...Hackintosh or HPz840
Custom Build PC, based on X99 Broadwell E. There's no point having a Hackintosh as Apple could ruin your day with an update at any time - lets face it, it's and unsupported platform. If you are thinking of a Hackintosh then your budget probably isn't in Z840 territory, not a new one anyway. X99 supports Broadwell E (up to 10 cores) and Xeon if you feel that way inclined with up to 22 cores and it costs less than a Mac Pro for a good build. RAM limit is 128GB.
The sticking point to that is will Apple be willing to support all that hardware? At this point, I think the idea has merit but I don't think Apple will see it that way unfortunately
Like seriously, wouldn't there be some power users up the head guy's ass about updating mac pro's and things? lol
Well, none os us liked what happened to day, AND Wall St. didn't like it either. Maybe time to lick my wounds (sell my Apple Stock)!
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I still think the MacPro might be updated at some point. The only question is whether or not there'll be enough of its customers left to care...
It means the same as when he says "the best iphone they ever made"...Its just nonsense mumbo jumbo. If they ever release something worse than the prior model, they have completely failed. and the current line up is more powerful than what it was before, hense the best lineup they ever had. Even if they only release a new phone next year, it will still be their best lineup they ever had
Well they pretty much did that last time the Mac Mini was updated.
Captain Cook
(...and I've actually seen signs like that in Europe - usually to warn people that they are driving onto a pier and not a bridge. Seems like there's no bridge for Apple pro users.)
It is strange that the Mac Pro hasn't been upgraded. In the past every line was updated at least on a yearly bases.
it doesn't seem that much R&D would needed to upgrade the insides. I am still using a old 2008 loaded up Mac pro
with the old 30 '' display. I do have a high end ssd inside on a PCI card and amazingly it still holds its own including video editing. However now that the latest os x isn't supported I really want to upgrade? At least Apple if you are not going to support older machines give us something new to buy
it doesn't seem that much R&D would needed to upgrade the insides. I am still using a old 2008 loaded up Mac pro
with the old 30 '' display. I do have a high end ssd inside on a PCI card and amazingly it still holds its own including video editing. However now that the latest os x isn't supported I really want to upgrade? At least Apple if you are not going to support older machines give us something new to buy
Yep, Tim is taking Apple for a long walk off a short pier. Guess there are a lot of life preservers at HQ with the apple logo on them
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Guess that makes Tim the Martha Stewart of the tech world. Only uses/has the very best of everything in his products
But when you pull the "inflate" tab it asks you for your Icloud ID, password and 2FA code.Yep, Tim is taking Apple for a long walk off a short pier. Guess there are a lot of life preservers at HQ with the apple logo on them
I could be looking to far into everything, but did anyone else notice that when they showed their Mac lineup the Pro and the Mini were missing? They included the iMac even though they didn't talk about it.
Didn't notice that, but totally unsurprising. Even the Apple stores don't have Mac Pros on display (and there's plenty of room in the ones around here (Houston, TX)).
Feel free to upgrade to Windows 10 or a current version of Linux. It's ironic the only OS which takes effort to install on this system is the one made by the company which built this system.
There are some very successful and very powerful X99 based hackintosh builds out there too, so possible to have it both ways. Most pros and shops are very anal about updating their OS. When something is not broke, you don't fix it. So a good stable hack can potentially last you a long while, at least until you are ready to upgrade again. I have no doubt that Apple will eventually break hackintoshing, not directly but organically via the addition of things like the Touch Bar, little proprietary co-processors and secure enclaves that the OS will eventually rely on to function. Luckily, that is a ways away yet. Apple released a new Mac today that doesn't have any of that, so we're probably safe for 2 - 3 more major OS releases. Even if macOS 10.13 broke hackintoshing for good, you could certainly get by for a time without having to upgrade, and/or dual boot Windows as you transition.