Hackintosh is for hobbyist. I don't think it's a good idea to use Hackintosh for doing business.
Sure hasn't hampered their profitability
Sorry, but nobody cares about Mac Pro. It makes no sense. Maybe it used to. things change
Mac mini is way higher value proposition. If you need 32 cores, whatever you're doing shouldn't be done under OS X.
When they redo Mac Pro lets all hope that they switch it to desktop class top spec i7. You know, the processor that anyone spec'ing a strong machine gets. Unless you are a Mac person, since that option isn't on the table
Rather unfair price comparison, eh. Four 512 GB drives to drive up the Mac price...
These MacPro threads seem endless. Does everyone who ever owned a Mac Pro post to them? MP is a product of a company with a consumer device focus and a stated goal of replacing PCs with tablets. MP is a PC.
Popelife, I am right there with you on the failings of the Mac Pro. I, like you, have been waiting for a decade to update my G-4's. .... And I can't believe that there is not one thunderbolt or USB 3 audio interface on the market today. What is up with that?
Do all these companies think that Apple will decide to go back to FW800 or finally do the FW1600 one of these days?
And why won't Apple update the Mac Pro? Sure it's a shrinking market, but there is no competition out there.
And, is Apple just trying to insult everybody by putting all the connectors on the back of the Imac? The side if the new Imac can easily house the SD card slot. But what is wrong with the front.
...should be ashamed of themselves for not updating their flagship product.
The iPhone is Apple's flagship product. The Mac Pro is a niche product which lags in sales behind practically every SKU in their catalogue.
The iPhone is Apple's flagship product. The Mac Pro is a niche product which lags in sales behind practically every SKU in their catalogue.
Dude, You Gettin' a Dell? Former Apple Editors Choose 'Yes, Bro' over Mac Pro for Performance
http://nofilmschool.com/2013/01/editors-choose-dell-over-apple-mac-pro/
I can't figure out how we beat Mexico.I don't think it will go that far. And since America one of the world poorest countries but still standing it's in the eye of the beholder which label you put on a country don't you think?
http://media.economist.com/sites/de...idth/images/print-edition/20121110_FBC408.png
This regulation has been published in March 2007 and revised in December 2011 - more than enough time for Apple to not be surprised and not let the market run dry... (if they wanted to, that is).You realize this is something Apple has no control over right? This is a government regulation.
The iPhone is Apple's flagship product. The Mac Pro is a niche product which lags in sales behind practically every SKU in their catalogue.
i can't figure out how we beat mexico.
Please notice japan is right in front of us, i don't think they're going out of business anytime soon.
If you define poverty as "percentage of population with disposable income under 40 percent of median income" (quick, what's that number?) we're not looking good, but i don't think i'm going to go panhandle in budapest anytime soon.
The brunt of the people suffering this lack of discretionary income are already complaining we're "socialists", so you'll have to take this issue up with them.
As long as somebody will buy your debt (at zero percent!), you're not broke.
Now, can i have my new mac pro please? I'll even take one with lead solder joints.
How about Lightworks?The decision took .....0.68 seconds. For an IT guy, that's almost an eternity.
Pure 64-bit debian over here. We're running Houdini Master and Nuke. If there was an open-source NLE, Cinelerra doesn't count, Mac would be history at my studio.
But the hardware being out of date is the reason why they can't sell MP in EU anymore. Regulations were announced 2009 and because present model of MP is older than that, Apple couldn't have made it to comply these regulations.BTW the EU rules have nothing to do with the hardware being out of date, but with the fan not being covered per the new reg.
And those mobo makers of Taiwan have also found solutions to this problem that doesn't exist:Folks keep trying to find a solution to a problem that doesnt' exist.
Second, there aren't 95% to 2500% differences between Westmere and Sandy Bridge Xeon E5 class options. Most likely this huge rendering differences are far more driven by the AMD graphics card in the Mac Pro and a Nvidia CUDA card in the Dell along with an Adobe option to leverage the CUDA card.
Why do you defend Apple here?
The Apple Pro is supported with a limited number of mostly out-of-date graphics cards.
If the Dell supports newer, faster, more GPGPU-capable cards - then the Dell is faster for the fairly common GPGPU-enabled apps.
A 2GB GTX 570 likely would have turned in much better numbers and those do run on the current Mac Pro. Those came in later 10.7 releases.
Also Apple still fails to get the relevance of SLI / CrossFire for GPGPU. They are as a matter of fact the only company offering workstation aimed at artists that are incapable of properly leveraging GPGPU capabilities of the gpu.
Yet I can sit with my 2011 MBP next to them with their 2009 MPs and make them cry cause my graphics card stomps their 300W+ energy sucker flat out in the ground at 70W energy consumption, so its pretty obvious that Apple MUST do something about the MP, its no longer an acceptable graphics workstation of any kind, even less at its unrealistic price tag for its stone age technology.
I don't see those in the BTO options for an Apple Pro.
Why do you defend Apple here?
The Apple Pro is supported with a limited number of mostly out-of-date graphics cards.
If the Dell supports newer, faster, more GPGPU-capable cards - then the Dell is faster for the fairly common GPGPU-enabled apps.
Dell can do it - Apple can't. Excuses don't matter.
The lack of a 3rd party video card market is as much about Apple's actions as the video card vendors (including Nvidia and AMD ).
And those mobo makers of Taiwan have also found solutions to this problem that doesn't exist:
Otherwise there should be 2 TB standards (one with dp and other without it).
And when it's pretty damn clear that Apple don't want to sell pro workstations (maybe supporting pro's is just too expensive) or even affordably expandable desktops anymore,
everybody would be happy if Apple just leases or sell OsX away. Macs are not getting so popular, that Apple would have to separate operating system from hardware because of anti-trust laws.
Why weren't you "forced to move to Windows on real professional grade hardware"?
You have some faith that a "real upgrade" is coming to the Apple Pro - but that seems less likely than Apple killing the Apple Pro product line.
You did notice that some of those mobos handle routing of discreet GPU back to TB controller with a pretty simple solution: external cable?Mainstream PC boards don't have the problem largely because the CPU package has a GPU in it.
Pragmatically Apple needs to embedded a GPU into the Mac Pro design so that it will pass the Thunderbolt qualification tests that require a computer to output a DisplayPort signal.