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Apple CEO Tim Cook: ‘We Have Great Desktops in Our Roadmap'
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Apple thinks that a desktop Mac should be thin as hell even if nobodys sees it beacause we all sit in front of it ...
I really wish Apple, or a company like it, would go into the Pro/Enterprise market. Make simple, yet powerful computers for niche markets like 3D creation, data centers, etc. Make them powerful enough to do the heavy lifting, yet easy to use, manage and upgrade. Add in amazing service for when things break down.
I'm old enough to remember System X from Virginia Tech. Made it to the top 10 most powerful supercomputers using only Xserves. I find power and simplicity aren't always mutually exclusive. I just someone could build a powerful, yet simple & sexy computers for the power user.
I hope so. Genuinely excited for people to get new iMacs, Mac Mini, and Mac Pros. Apple needs to restore our waning hope for the Mac lineup.
Exactly! And that is why he assembles the majority of their products in China.
He's a typical politician.
need mac mini with TB3 so we can hookup an eGPU for a reasonable pro machine
If only they would reverse the so called "upgrade" to the Mac Mini and return it to the perfect machine it once was, I'd be a happy man.
I just need a cheap xCode box that I can tweak for the next 5 years.
I just need a cheap xCode box that I can tweak for the next 5 years.
A mesmerizing rant, full of italics and bolds, signifying nothing. But this was the best part:
The problem of fast GPU performance is solved on the Windows PC side long ago but Apple makes a new problem out of this instead of building towers that are able to handle replacable graphics cards.
the 21" iMacs use the Iris Pro 6200 integrated GPU to the CPU
the 27" iMacs use one of the following (depending on build option)
- R9 M380
- R9 M390
- R9 M395
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Great Tim, but now Apple must demonstrate it with a brand new Mac Pro and Thunderbolt displays for it and for a brand new Mac mini. Because I guess Apple does not want us to use the ugly LG proposal. BTW, the iMac and all All-In-One (AIO) are a waste of resources and a huge aggression to planet Earth when you have to discard a great expensive display after CPU becomes obsolete. Displays last many, many, many years more (about 20 years).
That sounds like an illegal narcotics reference. You're banned from the App Store.
There isn't coming an end to Tim's pipeline. For me 2017 will be a crucial year. It's the year of delivering instead of talk. If 2017 doesn't turn out to be a year of good future proof products and a giant leap on today's offerings (I mean technological and not price wise) it's goodbye stagnant pricey Apple eco for me. I want to be positive surprised by Apple in 2017. I want them to make me feel confident I make a good investment by buying Apple computers/products. After waiting for over 5 years at the end of the pipeline, I feel this is justified and not too much to ask.
Show me real power Tim! Soft-, and hardware! Don't hold back like you usually do! Convince me it's a safe investment buying Apple products.
Show me real power Tim! Soft-, and hardware! Don't hold back like you usually do! Convince me it's a safe investment buying Apple products.
Many people use both platforms, and are interested in comparisons and are interested in analysis.
Apple got out of the server market for a reason. There's not a lot of profit there even when companies are buying huge deployments. The competition is fierce which drives down profits and means the cost of competing is high.
Sadly the niche market isn't very profitable. There are only a small number of users looking for a machine like the MacPro when compared to the iMac, MB, and MBP.
In addition to that, if you're already working with a small market, adding the ability to easily upgrade the machines means even less sales as now people can just add more RAM, a new processor, or upgraded graphics card. That means they're going to buy from you even less often. These niche markets upgrade very infrequently, often going 5 years or more without updating hardware. That means the opportunity for sales is very low.
There's a reason most companies haven't been going crazy catering to this market. It's simply not profitable to do so when there are much bigger markets offering far greater sales.
Apple's motives are pretty clear. While profitable, the Mac has only ever held a small portion of the global PC market. It pales in comparison to the size of Windows/PC market. Apple are slowly but surely trying to kill off this market ('Why would you buy a PC anymore?') hoping to push the refugees into their much more successful iToy world, where they rule supreme.
Good for them, sucks for those of us who prefer a computer over a consumer toy.
Good for them, sucks for those of us who prefer a computer over a consumer toy.
And a 2015/2016/2017 Computer will not be better than a 2007 one? Come on. Can you put 64GB of RAM in that 2007 iMac? Why is the RAM being soldered make a 2016 iMac worse than a 2007 iMac?
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Did they say it was a desktop? I just see "personal computer" which it is. For many people, it replaces their laptops.
And why doesn't Apple go the Microsoft way? Look, even Android was able to get wide user base success on the smartphone and tablet market by doing the same what Microsoft did at the PC sector. Another chance Apple has missed like the arrogance they had in the 80 - 90ie years. The business policy of Apple is flawed unless they want to be another Leica (in the camera sector).
Um, of course they would? I have been re-watching keynotes from Steve Jobs in the late 90s and early 2000s and even he says "This is the thinnest/greatest/fastest/... system we ever made/on the planet". It is marketing.
What kind of logic is that? How would that benefit say a digital graphic artist running Photoshop? My GTX 680 card cannot do 4K video editing since it only has 2GB of RAM on it. But I can do my Photoshop work on it. But I guess it is not a computer unless I do these crazy things?
If Intel offered that, I'm sure they would stick one it to save those precious dollars.Still can't answer my question it seems. Just more deflection and avoidance...