rhodescholar said:
How a rational person can call this trolling is beyond me.
It's really, really easy, actually, since DHM has very little in the way of facts to ever back anythign he says. It's an awful lot off impassioned personal testimony and opinion, but little citation.
Reading over your post, I can see why you agree with him. To arms...
I have owned macs for longer than many of you have probably been alive, going back to 1982. I have been thru it all, clones, steve jobs, no steve jobs, etc., and this is without a doubt the low point of owning a mac.
Actually, you're wrong. Most of the people around here are older than me, and I was born before you started using macs. This is especially funny, since you claim that you've been using macs since 1982, but
the Macintosh 128k wasn't released until January 1984. At the time, I was using an Apple IIe, but I remember the Macintosh in its early days.
So, with this simple statement, you've already called your credibility into question.
It is also the closest i have come to purchasing a pc, as it seems apple has simply abandoned its hardware desktop market. I was in compusa, and when i asked the apple specialist
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The fact that it is absolute crap only worsens the situation. I told the guy he is totally wrong, and left it at that.
The inability of a salesman in a non-Apple store to answer your questions doesn't say anything about the company, nor does it reflect on the product line in any way. If that's your idea of a damning criticism of Apple, I suggest that you go remain right where you are, since the salespeople are just as likely to be ignorant of new happenings in the PC market.
Intel's facing a huge problem at the moment with their own megahertz myth, because it's poisoning their sales of Centrino laptops. People are buying the cheaper P4-M and Celeron laptops because the clock is higher, even though the newer chip is more power efficient and just as fast. There are some rumors floating around that Centrino desktops will start showing up soon, because they're not nearly as hot as P4s, but comparable in many aspects of performance.
I use my mac for music composition, in the past apple's second strongest after video production, that.....given that there is no upgrade path unless you have a VERY recent copy of logic.
Why? The current G5s are at least competitive with, if not superior to, anything in the PC creative sector for audio, and Logic is pretty highly looked upon in is latest incarnation. That being said, I have to wonder if you can point out a similarly high-grade creative professional program that has an upgrade path which would follow something more like what you apparently want. If you're running a Sawtooth and a copy of Logic purchased around the same time, then you've had some
four or five years to have been maintaining your copy of the software.
I'm sure Microsoft will allow you to upgrade from 98 to XP for a discount.
The fact is, is that apple has basically told its userbase to screw off, they, like gateway, are moving into other markets (iPod), and dont care that noone is buying their desktop products anymore.
They're moving off into other markets, which is why a major outlay was made on a totally new dual-processor systems, allied with the only major player in the desktop PPC game, sitting on an architecture that's still competitive after a year, and committed to jumping it by the end of the summer. That's probably also going to explain why they spent all the time and money to release, and then continue to maintain Panther...
rhodescholar said:
You sound like an islamic-fascist: "either you agree with me that apple is above reproach, or else!!"
Well, you narrowly avoided the Nazi reference. Good for you!
Funny thing happened to me this morning. I was sitting in an office lobby and the 4/04 Money magazine issue had an article mentioned on the cover that said EXACTLY what others have said in this thread before me, that the ipod is NOT going to save apple, and that apple's market share is falling fast.
Oh no, not the media predicting Apple's death again, and again, and again, and... You get the point, don't you? Apple has been dying for 20 years, if you listen to the media. It's what they apparently do best, since it's what's always reported on, because it makes better news than any kind of success story or, you know, actual journalism.
This article has the statistics for numbers of desktop machines sold, which is more important than the number of OS' sold. Apple can sell 1 trillion ipods, and given the low profit margins on them, it wont make much difference. Apple needs to update its line more often than every 2 years or so.
Yet Apple is making money and free of debt... Funny that.
Further, apple changed its pci card structure so that all scsi-based legacy equipment, which many ppl rely....Since the cards changed, the audio recording solutions are up in the air, with m-audio possibly being the only reasonable solution for the moment.
How can I put this?
The G5 moves on to entirely faster formats, things that are vastly superior to their older counterparts - USB2, FireWire 800, SATA, PCI-X, AGP 8x, PC3200, and so on. The whole package is new, and I couldn't put my legacy ATA drive in there, nor could I strip the RAM from my existing tower, were I to buy one. I can't reuse my graphics card, either! Horror!
You were just complaining that your
G4 Sawtooth was too slow, and that tells me a lot about just how much money you're making as an audio "professional." Oh, wait... Now you're denying it and blaming your lack of clarity on others. How lovely.
