I'll be excited when an invite goes out, I think. Right now it's so silent I'm worried nothing is actually coming.
Even with Apple's extremely limited Mac lineup, they must agree the iMac needs updating. Where are the rumours for that?
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Ever since I heard the theory that the Mac Pro was a major ****up, I've been convinced by it.
In 2013, people thought Apple had given up on the Mac Pro, because it hadn't been updated in 1241 days (other than a 6-core option being added to the lineup). Then they announce "the future of the Pro desktop".
We're almost at the point where we've been waiting another 1200+ days for an update. This isn't apathy. A lack of Mac mini updates is Apple not caring about the product. A lack of Mac Pro updates suggests something went badly wrong.
After all, how easy would it be for "bean counting" Tim Cook to generate a ton of orders by doing nothing but putting up to date processors in the Pro?
if anything, even a silent update to more recent internals would be at least a sign that they understand the nature of the computer industry and how you cannot sit back.
but there's been no cpu updates. no gpu updates, no harddrive updates. Not even a thunderbolt update to thunderbolt 3.
not a single update to a pro model device that people buy to earn a living on, really REALLY showcases to me that Apple's executives either do not understand the computer industry, or are completely out of touch with reality.
the 2013 Mac Pro, was already slightly out of date on launch. it's now 4 years later, updates haven't happened. So everyone else can now operate faster and more efficiently, but if you're in Apple's ecosystem, you haven't had any improvement to your computational ability. that alone could kill someones ability to bid on a project, or fit another project into queue.
At least with the old cheese grater tower mac Pros, you could upgrade hard drives easily adding more, you could add a better GPU. you could replace and update many components to keep it reasonably up to date.
The new tower was absolutely a Form over function design in which someone should have said "no, you cannot give that to professionals who NEED scalability over time to keep up to date". instead, they patted themselves on the back, called it revolutionary, and then promptly forgot about, further re-inforcing that the current leadership at apple does NOT understand the PC industry.