Typical for the new age.
The thing about that image: Your physical new Mac Pro footprint only gets bigger and uglier as you add more things, but the old Mac Pro looks good hoarding all of that stuff whether you actually use them all or not.
Typical for the new age.
Typical for the new age.
i LOVE this picture, it sums up EVERYTHING that is wrong with both the new direction taken for the MAC PRO (Form over function) and the new direction for apple in general (Lets sell pretty things when they stand alone and not things that are actually usable things in the real world unless you have 700 extra cables, devices and plug sockets handy)
It's obvious obvious that you're not a pro and you do not work in a creative pro setting. In the real world in a studio you going to have racks and that's where your cable management and equipment management looks neat and uniform. You guys are just being a bunch bunch of sideliners.i LOVE this picture, it sums up EVERYTHING that is wrong with both the new direction taken for the MAC PRO (Form over function) and the new direction for apple in general (Lets sell pretty things when they stand alone and not things that are actually usable things in the real world unless you have 700 extra cables, devices and plug sockets handy)
Why do people get a kick out of unrealistic, impractical uses of technology?
No one would ever daisy chain that much hardware via a non-locking cable. I am sure even the builder wouldn't no where to begin looking if a part of the chain unmounted.
Pfft, Commodore was doing this in the 80's..you could daisy chain 1541's, 1571's, 1581's...heck, almost any drive short of the datasette could be daisy chained.
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If you understand that, and what it would have commanded, you win the "old fart" test.![]()
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It's absolutely silly.
Person has way too much time
Well, just like FireWire.
I love how they add something without any wires to the bottom right, just for kicks. Also, a Superdrive and a Blu-Ray player? I'm not sure what the purpose of having both is other than doing disc->disk (which would be faster without the Superdrive anyways).
Also, I wasn't aware the old Mac Pro had a built-in UPS.
That's pretty basic testing that every company does.
Here's what's funny... many old Mac Pros had just as many external devices plugged into them.
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And a few of the devices in that picture are external only... or they're better suited for external use.
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There were already many external devices *before* the new Mac Pro was announced.
Brilliant.
One picture worth a thousand sarcastic words.
The ultimate irony of the unintended consequences of thin and sleek stupidity.
The absurd triumph of form over function.
Are you the guy who says "I CAN pass the catsup"?
That's a cool demonstration of the power of ThunderBolt, but it probably cost him 1.21 jigadollars. Everything related to TB is a ripoff, especially Apple's cables. Seriously, they're killing their own standard in its infancy. I want Thunderbolt to become cheap already so it doesn't end up like FireWire!
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The thing about that image: Your physical new Mac Pro footprint only gets bigger and uglier as you add more things, but the old Mac Pro looks good hoarding all of that stuff whether you actually use them all or not.
It's not semantics. It's an entirely different way of making connections.
Typical for the new age.
This is a more realistic picture:http://icomputerdenver.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Mac-Pro-2013-vs-2012.png
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[thanks to user "cc bcc" @ arstechnica]
Typical for the new age.
Why do people get a kick out of unrealistic, impractical uses of technology?
No one would ever daisy chain that much hardware via a non-locking cable. I am sure even the builder wouldn't no where to begin looking if a part of the chain unmounted.
42 - The answer to life![]()
Pfft, Commodore was doing this in the 80's..you could daisy chain 1541's, 1571's, 1581's...heck, almost any drive short of the datasette could be daisy chained.
load "$",8,2
If you understand that, and what it would have commanded, you win the "old fart" test.![]()
i LOVE this picture, it sums up EVERYTHING that is wrong with both the new direction taken for the MAC PRO (Form over function) and the new direction for apple in general (Lets sell pretty things when they stand alone and not things that are actually usable things in the real world unless you have 700 extra cables, devices and plug sockets handy)
Brilliant.
One picture worth a thousand sarcastic words.
The ultimate irony of the unintended consequences of thin and sleek stupidity.
The absurd triumph of form over function.